illume

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There were some things that could illume his dark stretches and level Mary-Clare’s vague reachings to a common level.

From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

But that idea will never illume the hearer’s brain as the lecturer’s until the hearer knows as does the lecturer what there is back of it.

From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)

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

And as I paced the lonely room, I wonder'd how that holy ray Could with its light a world illume So fill'd with falsehood and decay.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

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