illume
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How blest its maidens! cloudless is their day, And radiant herbs illume their nightly way.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
But when we meet, as here, to play at Golf, Whig, Radical, and Tory—all are off— Off the contested politics, I mean— And fun and harmony illume the scene.
From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing
Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
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 Wilson, John Lyde
"True!" sighed the Shadow, and a softened smile Seemed to illume the coldness, void of guile, Of those phantasmal features.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.