beaconless

Updated: June 4, 2025

It was time; two Spanish voices vibrate on the black shore: two carbineers, who were sleeping in their cloaks and whom the noise has awakened! And they begin to hail this flying, beaconless bark, not perceived so much as suspected, lost at once in the universal, nocturnal confusion. "Too late, friends," laughs Itchoua, while rowing to the uttermost.

Pierre Loti - Ramuntcho

Beyond it his eye sought instinctively for the Clock Tower, which stood to-night dull and beaconless like some one in a stupid silence. That light of the sitting House had become to him one of the standing pleasures of life. He had never yet been honestly glad of its extinction. "I'm a precious raw hand," he confessed to himself with a shake of the head as he stood there smoking.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Marcella