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illume

[ih-loom] / ɪˈlum /


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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

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

Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Shall I tell thee now All that I think of, when, by land and sea, The days and nights illume the world for me?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

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

His lyrical strength, his passion, his terse vocabulary, his exquisite fancy and tenderness illumed every page, giving it dignity and color.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

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

We were quickly made comfortable before a bright fire on the hearth which illumed the whole room.

From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The black stone will not become the world illuming gem.

From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Now the fields are laughing; now the maids Take their pastime; laugh the leafy glades: Now the summer days are blooming, And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds

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

The balmiest winds blowing soft where she steers,   The favor of heaven illuming her path-- She might sail as she pleased to the mild summer airs,   And avoid the dread regions of tempest and wrath.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

All was silent without, and, illuming the landscape with silver, Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors, 980 Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.

From Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by W. F. Conover




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