illume

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Swift as communicated rays That leap from severed suns a gloom Within whose waste no suns illume, The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

But that idea will never illume the hearer’s brain as the lecturer’s until the hearer knows as does the lecturer what there is back of it.

From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)

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

From morn till eve I rove along, And joys my eyes illume, If you but listen to my song, And kindly buy a broom.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles