lustrates

"'Tain't noways what ye'd call much o' a story, but it 'lustrates ther intelligence o' ther hawg, which in my 'pinion ez almost ez great ez thet o' some collidge gradooates what I hev mixed with."

Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

"'It' lustrates too, 'says Enright, when two days later the weddin' party has returned to Tucson, an 'Wolfville ag'in sinks to a normal state of slumbrous ease,' it sort o '' lustrates how open to argyments a gent is when once he's lost his weepons.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885