illume

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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 Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de

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

From morn till eve I rove along, And joys my eyes illume, If you but listen to my song, And kindly buy a broom.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

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

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