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

His whole appearance was decidedly ordinary, not to say vulgar, and even the unconcealed triumph now illumining his countenance could set no other impress on it.

From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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

Hope, sprung up once more within them, had been illumining the past few hours.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

One of the number, seeing that we were strangers, and probably guessing at our bewilderment, kindly approached, and, with quiet pride illumining his fine old face, volunteered an explanation of the exciting scene before us.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart