illume

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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

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

Theodora herself, with breathless anxiety, was the first to bring a torch, that might perhaps illume the pale ghastly features of him on whom she had centered all her felicity.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de

Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various