" . . . ___ and bible-black": Dylan Thomas

Usage examples of starless.

Such deities were the Thracian Bendis, whose manifestation was heralded by the howling of her fierce black hounds, and Hecate the terrible QUeen of the realm of ghosts, as Euripides calls her, and the vampire Mormo and the dark Summanus who at midnight hurled loud thunderbolts and launched the deadly levin through the starless sky.

And in two weeks there was not any sunlight at all, but only a weird grey twilight shining through a dome of eternal cloud by day, and a cold starless phosphorescence from the under side of that cloud by night.

The eastward cliff was at first merely a starless selvedge to the starry dome.

Although the night was moonless and starless, its darkness untinctured by village lights here in the sparsely populated hill country east of Taubate, he could see the signal post up the tracks through the lenses of his NVGs.

A starless and pitiless night hath rushed On the light of her life -- and far away In Afric wild lies her poor dead child, Lies the heart of her heart -- let her alone Under the rod With her infinite moan, O my God!

He saw a dark, wide, and barren shingle of the world, a desert of desolation made by man, where strange, windy shrieks and thundering booms and awful cries went up in the night, and where drifting palls of smoke made starless sky, and bursts of reddish fires made hell.

And because those sullen Bug warships waited there, the light-years between Pesthouse and Anderson One meant a very great deal, indeed, for any message from Eighth Fleet must be relayed by the ICN from Anderson One, back to Centauri, through a score of additional star systems and starless nexi to L-169, and thence down the length of the Prescott Chain, through Home Hive One, to Pesthouse.

Under the friendly cover of a starless night the men, in Indian file, like a party of Iroquois braves upon the war trail, stole up the winding and ill-defined path which led to the summit.

The rain came down in large, cold, splattering drops, and the dark sky was starless, barren of moon and breeze.

The shale radiated a soft calcimine glow, which was the only light, for the sky far above was black and moonless, deep but starless.

It devoured almost half of the screen space--a huge pit of eternal, starless night, haloed by a gorgeous display of purple, red, blue, and yellow dust and matter that formed the swirling accretion disk.

Max sat that it now lay at the very edge of the starless black rent in the sky.

Balls of flame flashed and arced in the distance, bright sparks against a red and starless sky.

The snake: a cable twisting sinuously in the weightless condition of hyperspace (a product of Mach's Principle concerning the lack of inertial force upon a single particle in a starless universe), more alive, seemingly, than the man it held to warm, breathing life.

Now they had departed the sector and entered a starless gulf beyond which lay Theta Persei, capital system of the sector of the same name.