1 Perhaps some of the bacon grease Dilcey was using for illumination could be used for seasoning.
2 Now an oil lamp and a few candles lighted the room and the roaring fire in the wide hearth gave most of the illumination.
3 He makes his berth an Aladdin's lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination.
4 An illumination broke over his whole face when he saw her and joined her under the orange tree.
5 The Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing themselves over Coketown.
6 In her winter dress, as now, she was like the tiger-beetle, which, when observed in dull situations, seems to be of the quietest neutral colour, but under a full illumination blazes with dazzling splendour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 7 Wildeve became lost in thought, and a look of inward illumination came into his eyes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 8 A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS 9 His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 10 The street-lantern, situated directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some economy in illumination.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE 11 They do not see that the role of the natural sciences in this matter is merely to serve as an instrument for the illumination of one side of it.
12 The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 13 A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 14 At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 15 The candle illuminated her countenance.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS