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The elements Pour forth their wrath in such tremendous peals, Such bolts of fiery death illume the sky, That earthly weapons seem the lesser ill.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

There were some things that could illume his dark stretches and level Mary-Clare’s vague reachings to a common level.

From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire

It is evident the sun shines through a clear atmosphere beyond the cloud, or his rays would not reach and illume the lower surface of the cirro-stratus with such distinctness.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

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 John Lyde Wilson

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

Then, starting to the task, Ulysses caught, And his illustrious son, the weapons thence, 40 Helmet, and bossy shield, and pointed spear, While Pallas from a golden lamp illumed The dusky way before them.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

No nation yet has risen o'er earth's first nature; Though love illumed each individual mind, Like some half-blind, half-formed primeval creature The State still crawled a thousand years behind.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

And within my dream the hut Quickly to a ball-room changed, High on lofty pillars borne And illumed by chandeliers.

From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine

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 answer was illuming, but he never winced.

From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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

In the midst of these encouraging omens, the sun dipped into the sea, illuming, as it fell, a wide reach of the chill and gloomy element.

From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper

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