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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

Shall I tell thee now All that I think of, when, by land and sea, The days and nights illume the world for me?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

From dreams of conquest, worlds and empires won Britain awaking, mourns her setting sun, No rays of joy her evening hour illume, 'Tis one sad chaos, one unmingled gloom!

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau

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 Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society

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 Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis

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

When the heavens and earth were illumed by that flash, he had obtained a momentary glimpse of an object that drove from his mind every thought but that of immediate death.

From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

His lyrical strength, his passion, his terse vocabulary, his exquisite fancy and tenderness illumed every page, giving it dignity and color.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

Five sabbaths walk'd the beautiful Her chosen lord beside, But ere the sixth illumed the sky She was that dread One's bride.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney

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

With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

And I, who through my blind eyes feel the moon illuming my forest by night and the sun by day, abide in peace, so that even the wild beasts press round to hear my music.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck

He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.

From Burnham Breaker by Homer Greene

All was silent without, and, illuming the landscape with silver, Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors, Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow