What is "railless"

Usage examples of "railless".

Multifingered streams trickled dark and clear as winter midnight under railless stone bridges that cut the black expanses of floor.

Gil paused for a moment on the railless span, looking down into the swift, black current below.

Finally he opened a gateway for Skimming and made a platform, a railless disc, half white and half black.

Leaving Harnan studying his mug, Mat headed for the railless stairs at the back of the room, but before he reached them, one of the serving women accosted him.

The innkeeper herself was sitting at the back of the room near the railless white stone stairs, keeping an eye on everything, with a young, pretty woman whose big black eyes had a merry twinkle, as though she knew a joke no one else did.

She was still frowning when Bethamin started up the railless stairs at the side of the common room pretending that she had not a thought in her mind beyond shopping.

At intervals bridges pierced the wall, arching out into the darkness, and railless ramps running up or down with no means of support he could see.

It much resembled the ziggurats of Babylonia, in the respect that a steep railless ramp wound from base to top in seven decreasing spirals.

There was no light inside, and they fumbled their way around the stone walls until they encountered the stairs once more and could fumble their way up that twisting, railless flight.

He would sit on the railless porch with the men when the long tired, dirty-faced evening rolled down the narrow valley, thankfully blotting out the streets of shacks, and listen to them talk.

The passengers crouched on the cold, uncomfortable deck or paced back and forth, staying a little ways back from the railless edge of the platform.

Fresh defenders came streaming through the archway, hurrying down the railless, curving stair.