ray-proof

Updated: August 7, 2024

Then she bade the priests put on the ray-proof armour that we had discarded, and told us to go without the chamber and lie in the darkness of the passage with our faces against the floor. This we did, and remained so until, a few minutes later, she called us again.

Henry Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She

Even the captain, in the shell-proof, shock-proof, and doubly ray-proof retreat of his conning compartment, was equally at a loss. No ship or thing could possibly be close enough to be sending out interfering waves of such tremendous power yet there they were!

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary

"Do not talk here, there is grave danger of being overheard by that self-styled Overlord," he directed tersely, and led the way into a ray-proof compartment of his private laboratory, several floors below. "It may interest you to know that you have sealed the doom of our planet and of all the Fenachrone upon it," Ravindau spoke savagely. "Dare you speak thus to me, your sovereign?" roared Fenor.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Skylark Three

So I stood while she laughed and mocked behind me until at length I heard the door close and the blessed darkness came like a gift from Heaven. Then Ayesha began to loose Leo from his ray-proof armour, if so it can be called, and he in turn loosed me; and there in that gentle radiance we stood blinking at each other like owls in the sunlight, while the tears streamed down our faces.

Henry Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She