Such ingenious allegories impart a certain local and romantic interest, though they rather obscure than illumine history.
If these stones, whose surfaces three centuries have so wrinkled with age, could but speak, what interesting facts might be revealed by them to illumine this period of the world's history!
We found an unexpected compensation, however, in the friendly glow of the electric lights which illumine the street and plazas of Venezuela's capital.
I was so bewildered by this address, and still more by the glance with which she seemed to illumine my inmost heart, and read my most secret thoughts, that at first I could only stammer a few unmeaning words.
The statement seems to teach that the Sun People--the men--were using torches to illumine the depth of the hot Canyon.
Unable to directly or steadily illumine the angles or recesses of the Canyon, the bright and clear-headed sun does the next best thing and raises a bounteous harvest of firebrands.
The lines aim at nothing less than at once to condense and illumine the most pregnant epoch of modern times, the eighteenth century.
Sudden patches of sunlight stripe the Gave, or illumine the harvests hung midway on the mountain slope.
Up we went and up, catching little glimpses of the town nestling far beneath in its cradle of mountains, and seeing the last flash of sunsetillumine their crests.
From one of these we watched the after-glow of the setting sun illumine distant peaks, bringing into prominence heights whose existence we had scarcely realized.
So vast was the room that the light did not penetrate to its further corners, but it served to illumine its magnificence.
She approved of the poise of his head upon his bare shoulders, and he watched the firelight play on her expressive features and illumine the gold of her hair, that fell all around her like a voluminous mantle.
But in vain he tortured his brain--not a ray of light came toillumine his darkness.
The poor blind woman kissed my hands, and called me an angel sent by God to illumine the darkness of her life by the sweet rays of consolation and piety.
But of what use is it to mingle my tears with hers, when there is no ray of hope to illumine the darkness of her despair?
The dark thoughts of man's heart, which the red glare of hell Can illumine alone?
Both brilliant and brittle, both bold and unstable, Indecisive yet keen, Alfred Vargrave seem'd able To dazzle, but not toillumine mankind.
He does not enforce the creations of his imagination by the analogy of natural appearances; his instinct is just the opposite--to describe and illumine nature by a reference to the creatures of thought.
Her virtue and goodness shall illumine our dark pages with a celestial light--even though her mother and sister were murderesses!
Intense darkness and profound silence reigned; but after traversing this passage for a considerable distance, lights began to illumine the dreary path, and that indistinct hum which proceeds from numerous inhabitants, became audible.
It is certain that ere long the light of these Teachings will illumine the earth and gladden the hearts of the people of Bahá.
Fulfil their hearts’ desires, gladden their bosoms with the shining splendour of the Centre of Thy Covenant, illumine their eyes and rejoice their souls with the goodly gifts of the light of harmony.
Like unto the stars they must shine in that horizon and thus the rays of the Sun of Reality may also illumine those states.
When the light of Muḥammad shone forth in their midst, however, they became so radiant as to illumine the world.
We must sacrifice everything to His Highness, the Possessor of existence, so that the powers of the Kingdom may show greater penetration and the brilliant effulgence in this New Cycle may illumine the worlds of minds and ideals.
Such souls are the rays of the Sun of Reality who will illumine all the continents.
Thus in a short space of time, most wonderful results will be produced, the banner of universal peace will be waving on the apex of the world and the lights of the oneness of the world of humanity may illumine the universe.
Dispel the darkness of these corrupt desires, and illumine the hearts with the lamp of Thy love through which all countries will erelong be enlightened.
Thus through this superhuman service the rays of peace and conciliation may illumine and enlighten all the regions and the world of humanity may find peace and composure.
The three curtains in the room were rolled up to the very tops of the windows, and, in their places, three pictures seemed to hang on the smoky walls, and illumine the place.
Your worship comes to this, your house, like the sun, to illumine it.
Passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, and coasting along the western shores of Africa, the snow-crowned Peak of the chief Island would rise from the Ocean, like a Pharos to illumine and proclaim their path of present safety.
Her expression was as a lamp to illumine the mask of her features.
He saw the glow kindle in her eyes and illumine her sombre face; it was like the leaping of light to the surface.
He had dismissed Hilda Howe, but a glow from the world she helped to illumine showed seductively at the end of his day.
Only in his case a figure of much angelic beauty stood at the top, holding a patent kerosene lamp high, to illumine his way.
In the teacher's hands is the moulding and shaping of character, the direction of talents which may illumine society.
Thy last fading glance will illumine the way, And a kiss be our passport to heaven!
Farewell--be it ours to embellish thy pillow With everything beauteous that grows in the deep; Each flower of the rock and each gem of the billow Shall sweeten thy bed and illumine thy sleep.
Love, that can illumine the dark hovel and the dismal garret, that sheds a ray of enchanting light over the close and busy city, seems to mount with a lighter and more glittering pinion in an atmosphere as brilliant as its own plumes.
Its dancing flames illumineus as if pixies were shaking their tiny lanterns in our faces.
I am the light, trying to illumine your ignorance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illumine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
