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You have shone on my house as a pair Of candles a corpse illume!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

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

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

Let the sun appear! let him illume my career! it matters not where it may end.”

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

Anon the cave appeared when moonbeams would its depths illume, A fairy hall of diamond, anon, a ghastly tomb.

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

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

How the “Lost Cause” sheds a gloaming On the erst illumed horizon!

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

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

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

And I, who through my blind eyes feel the moon illuming my forest by night and the sun by day, abide in peace, so that even the wild beasts press round to hear my music.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

Hitherto the light had been thought of as a lamp, illuming a single place; now it was to be a sun, shedding its glory upon a world.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

Man is the         idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming         the universe with light.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

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