1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment):In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.
1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 18:When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.
