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

Within the hour their light will illume thy understanding.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

Does Cynthia, when to western skies arriv'd, Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main, And ne'er illume with midnight splendor, she, The natives dancing on the lightsome green?—

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

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

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