illume
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See now the morning star the sky illume!
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
Within the hour their light will illume thy understanding.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
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
"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
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 Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
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
In the Generalife's fresh closes, By a Moorish light illumed, Two delicious, tender roses By a fountain met and bloomed.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Again the same deep flashes of fire illumed the windows, and two or three figures in grotesque costume, with strange unearthly faces, were seen, for the instant, within.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
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
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
A Hero fair, from out the dawn's bright blooming, Rides forth, illuming level shore and flood; The white and seaward plain he sets in motion, He stirs the ocean into burning blood.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
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
With a bright smile illuming her face she rose and held out a hand to the giant before her.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
The answer was illuming, but he never winced.
From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
