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Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

The elements Pour forth their wrath in such tremendous peals, Such bolts of fiery death illume the sky, That earthly weapons seem the lesser ill.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

As thou, Christ, to illume it, holdest Heaven Broadly over our heads.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shall I tell thee now All that I think of, when, by land and sea, The days and nights illume the world for me?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

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 Lydia Maria Francis Child

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

I never thought of that!” murmured the inn-keeper, and a smile of satisfaction illumed his heavy face.

From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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

She started up in sweet surprise, And sudden joy illumed her eyes.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

Man is the         idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming         the universe with light.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

On we flew like a whirlwind, the hoofs of the animals illuming the path with the sparks of fire they struck from the stones. 

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

Before the earliest buds   Have softly opened, heralding the May With tender light illuming the gray woods,   I shall be gone away.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

He stood there as he stood that day on the carriage that bore Robert Burnham to his death, the light of heroism in his eyes, the glow of splendid faith illuming his face.

From Burnham Breaker by Homer Greene

The answer was illuming, but he never winced.

From The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim