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What warm and heavenly tints illume The land that lately seem'd a tomb Where thou wert left to die!

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

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

There were some things that could illume his dark stretches and level Mary-Clare’s vague reachings to a common level.

From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

"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

Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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

At this thought the malignant light of a fearful determination illumed his features and revealed their frightful distortion.

From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.

They had been unable to see each other, except when the universe seemed illumed by the flashes of lightning.

From The Giraffe Hunters by Reid, Mayne

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

All was silent without, and, illuming the landscape with silver, Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors, 980 Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.

From Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Conover, W. F.

Hitherto the light had been thought of as a lamp, illuming a single place; now it was to be a sun, shedding its glory upon a world.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illuming the air far and wide. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

There is no way of illuming the depths of the ocean.

From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Durham, Victor G.

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir