illume
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Often, when seated at the play, And sonorous music lights the stage, I see the frail hand of a Fay With magic dawn illume the rage Of the dark sky.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
That Friend shall thus each tear illume, To forms of glory shape that gloom.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
See now the morning star the sky illume!
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
From morn till eve I rove along, And joys my eyes illume, If you but listen to my song, And kindly buy a broom.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon."
From Time Magazine Archive
We see a dimly illumed underground waterfall and climb down to it for a dark thundering shower.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
At this thought the malignant light of a fearful determination illumed his features and revealed their frightful distortion.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder
When the heavens and earth were illumed by that flash, he had obtained a momentary glimpse of an object that drove from his mind every thought but that of immediate death.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
No nation yet has risen o'er earth's first nature; Though love illumed each individual mind, Like some half-blind, half-formed primeval creature The State still crawled a thousand years behind.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
On we flew like a whirlwind, the hoofs of the animals illuming the path with the sparks of fire they struck from the stones.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
The answer was illuming, but he never winced.
From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illuming the air far and wide.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
The black stone will not become the world illuming gem.
From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Before the earliest buds Have softly opened, heralding the May With tender light illuming the gray woods, I shall be gone away.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
