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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

See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson

God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

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

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

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

I never thought of that!” murmured the inn-keeper, and a smile of satisfaction illumed his heavy face.

From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Now her face is illumed by a heavenly light As sweet as angels' breath; For she knows that the unclasped hands will unite, Across the river of death.

From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Duncan McNeill Young

It had become very dark; suddenly a blaze of sheet-lightning illumed the room. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp

Day following day, a long-continued feast, Refulgent pedestals the walls surround, Which boys of gold with illuming torches crown'd; The polish'd oar, reflecting every ray, Blazed on the banquets with a double day.

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

The answer was illuming, but he never winced.

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

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

There is no way of illuming the depths of the ocean.

From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham

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