illume
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To error’s joyless waste betrayed; No light will there illume thy road, No friendly voice will give thee aid.
From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various
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 Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis
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
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
Meant by Heaven to be the shadow of another's sun—not herself the sun—this child is not the one who can atone for the Past and illume the Future.”
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
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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
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In the Generalife's fresh closes, By a Moorish light illumed, Two delicious, tender roses By a fountain met and bloomed.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Again the same deep flashes of fire illumed the windows, and two or three figures in grotesque costume, with strange unearthly faces, were seen, for the instant, within.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
Caverns with ice shapes, blue-tinted, translucent: Columns and altars and figures fantastic, Imagined in dreams or pictured in fever, Softly illumed by the moonlight's reflection.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
Stars of strange and faint illuming, Reads the national magician; Stripes of gory hue adorning, All the mammoth constellation; Stripes extending down the shadow Of the shifting, warning picture.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Dry logs and branches were found among the underwood, and these were brought forward and heaped upon the pile, until the flames blazed up, illuming the glade to its very circumference.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
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
He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.
From Burnham Breaker by Homer Greene
Out on the open road Jack ordered full speed, the great searchlights illuming the roadway as if it were day.
From The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone by Richard Bonner