illume

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"True!" sighed the Shadow, and a softened smile Seemed to illume the coldness, void of guile, Of those phantasmal features.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

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.

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

Three candles that illume every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various