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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
relume .
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Examples
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His eyes finally relumed to Dayala, focusing on the sole blemish he could see, a faint white line across the inside of her left wrist.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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His eyes finally relumed to Dayala, focusing on the sole blemish he could see, a faint white line across the inside of her left wrist.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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She descended to the ground, and relumed to human form.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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She descended to the ground, and relumed to human form.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Just as his poems of 1905-08 are of the cliché period where all lips are "scarlet," and lamps are "relumed," so the section dated 1908-11 shows Brooke in the _Shropshire Lad_ stage, at the mercy of extravagant sex images, and yet developing into the dramatic felicity of his sonnet _The Hill_:
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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He was wont to sing for her also, albeit tunelessly, and as he sat blond and roseate and gay, warbling after his fashion on the hearth, her clouded old eyes were relumed with a radiance that came from within and was independent of the prosaic light of day.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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The torch at last relumed, we entered a tomb-like excavation, at every step raising clouds of dust; and at last stood before long rows of musty, mummyish parcels, so dingy-red, and so rolled upon sticks, that they looked like stiff sausages of Bologna; but smelt like some fine old Stilton or Cheshire.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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After being honourably acquitted, he relumed his feat upon the bench, and made the following fpeech; which, confidered in a general way, is admirable both with refpecft to matter and form, though the propriety of applying it to the particular occafion may be queftioned, as the petitioners were neither rioters nor inlurgents, nor men who had othTwile violated the public peace.
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The Congrefs met according to adjournment, and relumed, &c. as yefterday.
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The Houfe relumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, 'A a Ail for afcertaining the
A journal of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the state of New-Jersey .. 1777
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