illume

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And as I paced the lonely room, I wonder'd how that holy ray Could with its light a world illume So fill'd with falsehood and decay.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

What warm and heavenly tints illume The land that lately seem'd a tomb Where thou wert left to die!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

No rays of dawn our path illume, We are sunk together in ceaseless gloom.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

But that idea will never illume the hearer’s brain as the lecturer’s until the hearer knows as does the lecturer what there is back of it.

From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)