illumine

How To Use illumine In A Sentence

• Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
• Jules Michelet wrote in La Régence Paris, 1879 of “coffee, the sobering beverage, a mighty nutrient of the brain, unlike spiritous liquors, increases purity and clarity; coffee, which clears the imagination of fogs and heavy vapours, which illumines the reality of things with the white light of truth; antierotic coffee, which at length substitutes stimulation of the mind for stimulation of the sexual faculties!” Savoring The Past
• In the evening and night the latter showed special activity, star rockets and other fireworks being used to illumine the opposing positions, which were heavily fusilladed. World's War Events, Vol. I
• They also tell us that the purpose of being born a human being is to become conscious in the illumined mind, awakened heart and soul, and increasingly peaceful and vibrant body of this Sacred Marriage, so as to be flooded with its peace, bliss and power. Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson: Heart Yoga: A Response to Today's Stress
• “shining motty through the reek,” to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• And yet, while there are some common themes within the "random" mix that have been witnessed many times over the past 150+ years such as discoid objects, spheres [both metallic and illumined], and more recently large black triangles [plus "humanoid" varieties of entities], etcetera, can we suppose these more common "display patterns" to be the "signal within the noise"? Posthuman Blues
• In his Confessions Augustine redirected reason inward in a fateful focus upon the content and structure of his own mind and soul, as he now experienced them - illumined by grace.
• If we except the class of preëminent saints of whom the names illumine history, and consider only the usual run of "saints," the shopkeeping church-members and ordinary youthful or middle-aged recipients of instantaneous conversion, whether at revivals or in the spontaneous course of methodistic growth, you will probably agree that no splendor worthy of a wholly supernatural creature fulgurates from them, or sets them apart from the mortals who have never experienced that favor. The Varieties of Religious Experience
• The period chosen for my illustration is the moment when the last shell fired from the fleet bursts over the battery; and the troops, illumined by the glare, are seen rushing to the parapet to repel the assault. Illustrations of the War in America
• A spark, indeed, would be sufficient to reillumine that soul, a recollection crossing that brain to recall reason. The Mysterious Island