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Can one illume a leaden sky, Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high, Not one funereal glimmer pale Can one illume a leaden sky?

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire

"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

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

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

It is evident the sun shines through a clear atmosphere beyond the cloud, or his rays would not reach and illume the lower surface of the cirro-stratus with such distinctness.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

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

The ruling passion, the spirit which nerved her arm, illumed her eye, and buoyed her heart, was woman's faith.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

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

Now the fields are laughing; now the maids Take their pastime; laugh the leafy glades: Now the summer days are blooming, And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds

The balmiest winds blowing soft where she steers,   The favor of heaven illuming her path-- She might sail as she pleased to the mild summer airs,   And avoid the dread regions of tempest and wrath.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

Meanwhile Shah Khatun went in bridal splendour to the king's son and conceived by him and bare a son, as he were the illuming moon.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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