illume

Example Sentences

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

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

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

Swift as communicated rays That leap from severed suns a gloom Within whose waste no suns illume, The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

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

God pity the cheerless widow Gray, And send from the halls of Eternal Day The light of His peace to illume her way!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various