Faint rays of light escaped through the chinks in the curtained windows and we could hear music and a rhythmic thudding.

Then a ray of light escaped the clouds and struck the figure crossways from the west.

Possibly it might not yet be extinguished, but no ray escaped from the depths of the abyss in which reposed all that was mortal of Captain Nemo.

Here, a ray of sound escapes the shadows, like candlelight glancing off the halo on an icon.

And this, the top floor of the High Command was the Black Hole of that power-so intense not even the slightest ray of light could escape.

The sky was overcast with heavy grey stratus clouds, and every so often a ray of sun escaped through a threadbare patch in the mist, casting a startling pinkish spotlight upon a favoured section of rock.

The exterior intake value has been opened, sir," he said, "the rays were escaping into space.

Some rays escape the common observer, and want a finely adapted eye.

Then suddenly when their hope was lowest a red ray of the sun escaped like a finger through a rent in the cloud.

An absolute horizon is defined as the boundary of a region from which null rays cannot escape to future null infinity.