illume

Example Sentences

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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

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

No rays of dawn our path illume, We are sunk together in ceaseless gloom.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

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

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 Beckford, William