illume

Example Sentences

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

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

It burned in other heavens with more celestial light; but it shone no longer over her path—to cheer, to comfort, to illume.

From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia

Anon the cave appeared when moonbeams would its depths illume, A fairy hall of diamond, anon, a ghastly tomb.

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.

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

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