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Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

Within the hour their light will illume thy understanding.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

I often assume gayety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile, which twenty years ago almost bewitched me, and which still constitutes my highest pleasure.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Does Cynthia, when to western skies arriv'd, Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main, And ne'er illume with midnight splendor, she, The natives dancing on the lightsome green?—

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau

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.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

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

Five sabbaths walk'd the beautiful Her chosen lord beside, But ere the sixth illumed the sky She was that dread One's bride.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney

And first, a wildly murmuring wind ’gan creep Shrill to his ringing ear; then tapers bright, With instantaneous gleam, illumed the vault of night.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie

By the blaze of some building which I could not see, but which some one said must be the guard-house everything was illumed almost as if by daylight.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

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

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

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

A Hero fair, from out the dawn's bright blooming, Rides forth, illuming level shore and flood; The white and seaward plain he sets in motion, He stirs the ocean into burning blood.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

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

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow