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As often is the case, the future was illuminated by looking at the past.

Looking to the past does little to illuminate the issue.

It illuminated the table where I had left those things.

The field was said to be illuminated, but to offer no services.

They illuminated the road far ahead and to the side.

It used a light in one of its eyes to illuminate the room.

Like the old sign, the new one will be illuminated.

But when police illuminated their blue light he pulled over.

The last of the evening light illuminated the large, single room.

To illuminate the room, we turn on the television set.

He walked around her until the light illuminated his face.

He moved under the light so that it illuminated his face.

Instead of one red light, there are two which both illuminate at the same time.

Often they will only illuminate a small part of the playing area.

Suddenly, he saw that the place was illuminated with light.

Her early life was illuminated by art, music, and books.

It illuminated the room in which the two were standing.

The room was illuminated by a red and angry light.

The sun's light was just beginning to illuminate the east.

Two stories from my own experience of you illuminate what I mean.

However, recent historical evidence has illuminated a very different man.

We will also be able to illuminate the heart of the democratic process in a way not possible at present.

My face had been right up at her window, though, and probably illuminated by the light from the kitchen.

All the windows, he wrote, are illuminated by the light of God.

And not just because it helped to illuminate the issues at hand.

A second sun arrayed in flame, To burn, to kindle, to illume.

So may She Illume our minds!

Bending at the waist, I set down my lantern at the head of the corridor, leaving it to illume the empty walls.

I've always adored how the small lights of the antique crystal chandelier illume the rich peach chintz.

To one side, tall windows let red sunset light slant across a shadowy corridor to illume the upper wainscoting of the opposite wall.

Separate from the history books are a series of books intended to illume for the reader the requirements of humanity for this day and age.

Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself.

Is Our land and yours too little for the sun To gladden, to illume, to bid increase, Bound by two mighty seas In one fraternal clasp of admirable peace?

Perchance it has truth, for yonder tiny sparks may be the souls of men, but grown more purely bright and placed in happy rest to illume the turmoil of their mother-earth.

Thou hast come down our darkness to illume: For we, close-caught in the wide nets of Fate, Wearied with waiting for the World's Desire, Aimlessly wandered in the house of gloom.

The church and its struggling grammar school expect to earn from $10,000 to $15,000 from the two film companies shooting the movie, plus whatever profits come from selling Mr. Landis 90 cases of candles to illume the chapel and its relics.

Dr. Olson has also turned his attention to Shakespeare, intrigued by the opening of "Hamlet," when guards on the ramparts of Elsinor refer to the "star that's westward from the pole had made his course to illume that part of heaven where now it burns."

To Becker's English contemporary Richard Wilson, Rome was more the place that inspired Byron to write about moonbeams shining on the Colosseum: As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation.

Here the great silver candlesticks illume The aged book, the blackness blazoned o'er With golden characters and scarlet bloom Twined in the blue-tinged sigils wrought for doom, And dreadful names of necromancer's lore Written therein; so stood my room before When the hissed whisper came, "Beware!