illume

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Meant by Heaven to be the shadow of another's sun—not herself the sun—this child is not the one who can atone for the Past and illume the Future.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

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

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

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

That Friend shall thus each tear illume, To forms of glory shape that gloom.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

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

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold