illume

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I often assume gayety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile, which twenty years ago almost bewitched me, and which still constitutes my highest pleasure.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

How blest its maidens! cloudless is their day, And radiant herbs illume their nightly way.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

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 Butler, Thomas Belden

See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

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