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You know irradiate, just like they do to the meat at the supermarket.— The Jawa Report
The pictures of St. Catharine and her legend very early impressed her on my mind as the type of ideal beauty--of all that can charm, irradiate, refine, exalt, in the best of the better sex The Rev. Dr. Opimian.— Gryll Grange
In another generation the bloom which it seeks to irradiate will be gone; nor will anyone then be able to present them to us as they really were Contents PART ONE: ANGELS AND MINISTERS I. THE QUEEN: GOD BLESS HER!— Angels ; Ministers
They can tame a savage sophist, like Thrasymachus in the Republic; humble the arrogance even of those who are ignorant of their ignorance; make those to become proficients in political, who will never arrive at theoretic virtue; and, in short, like the illuminations of deity, wherever there is any portion of aptitude in their recipients, they purify, irradiate, and exalt After this general view of the dialogues of Plato, let us in the next place consider their preambles, the digressions with which they abound, and the character of the style in which they are written.— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors; No silver saints, by dying misers given, Here bribed the rage of ill-requited Heaven: But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise 140 In these lone walls, (their day's eternal bound) These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets crown'd, Where awful arches make a noonday night, And the dim windows shed a solemn light; Thy eyes diffused a reconciling ray, And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day.— The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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