Example Sentences

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Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun was hardly illumining the tops of the eastern mountains of the valley when I awoke invigorated, and led my horse out into the grass again.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

“Princess,” he said, “the radiance of your presence is as the full moon suddenly illumining the path of a weary traveler, who finds himself on the edge of a morass.”

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

And yet, amid my fetters, there survived still somewhat to uphold me; a presentiment that my chains would break; a feeble ray of light illumining the dreary, and seemingly eternal darkness of my prison.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous