"Illume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself I have only this,—that he was my foe, that he came to England intent on schemes to shorten my life or destroy its enjoyments. All my faculties tend to self-preservation; there, they converge as rays in a focus; in that focus they illume and—they burn. I willed to destroy my intended destroyer. Did my will enforce itself on the agent to which it was guided? Likely enough. Be it so. Would you blame me for slaying the tiger or serpent—not by the naked hand, but by weapons that arm it? But what could tiger and serpent ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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... amen, I say to thee that thou, Ere yet another day illume the skies, With crown unlike to this that binds my brow Shalt share the glories ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various
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... unite above Star upon star, moon, Sun; And let his God-head toil To re-adorn and re-illume his Heaven, Since in the end derision Shall prove his works and all his ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
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... a fairer day, When thou shalt be a buoyant plume, To soar, where clearer suns illume, ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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... When yon same star, that's westward from the pole, Had made its course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself The bell then beating one—" "Peace, break thee off; look, ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper
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