What is "sunless"

Usage examples of "sunless".

He dreaded being sent back to the Tower even more than he dreaded a beating for stealing illegal passage on the Windship, but if he were allowed to remain in the city, would he not merely end up as a drudge, toiling in sunless chambers for the rest of his life, polishing aumbries, bleeding, broken?

To be sure, this place was still part of that skyless, sunless, earthless universe, but here there were more people and things.

And in a brighter, purer sphere, Beyond the sunless tomb, Those virtues that have charmed us here In fadeless life shall bloom.

It was a warm April day, but sunless: for the Libeccio had veiled the blue heavens with clouds which seemed to press down the atmosphere, that unmoved by any breeze appeared even by its weight to encumber the flowers, and to destroy all elasticity either in vegetable or animal life.

Elashi, and Tull floated along the Sunless Sea for the best part of a day without major incident.

Widish streets with widish pavements, made gloomy and sunless by the weight and height of crowded buildings in Haussmann style, with pompous facades.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

All the ferns, all the mosses, all the deep-green, rank-grown underscrub hem the chill waters of the little sunless creeks and close them about.

So they had spent two busy weeks provisioning and equipping the rocket, had ridden high above the ice barrier that bounds the twilight zone, and dashed frantically through the storm line, where the cold underwind from the sunless side meets the hot upper winds that sweep from the desert face of the planet.

The going was slow at first, until the wizard and his cyclopes departed from the defluxed region, back into the farther reaches of the Sunless Sea.

Endnote 10 Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea Endnote 11 Mr Quatermain does not seem to have been aware that it is common for animal-worshipping people to annually sacrifice the beasts they adore.

All the ferns, all the mosses, all the deep-green, rank-grown underscrub hem the chill waters of the little sunless creeks and close them about.

It was a ghasdy, unreal nightmare existence diese people lived, shut off from die rest of the world, caught together like rabid rats in the same trap, butchering one anodier dirough die years, crouching and creeping through the sunless corridors to maim and torture and murder.

Behind him, he could hear the other boy laughing, the sky echoing with it as Jake reached his hand toward the horizon and the door to the sunless corridors that were his home.

Chuntha and Katamay Rey went deeper into the far reaches of the Sunless Sea searching for the three humans, Deek and Wikkell turned -their craft homeward.