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  • Once it was back in my hands, I had a paper trail to show it had been part of the illustrious So-and-So collection.†   (source)
  • Unsure how to act in the company of a divine presence, this living reincarnation of an ancient and illustrious lama, I was terrified of unwittingly giving offense or committing some irredeemable faux pas.†   (source)
  • The majority of the players are Latino, from the sorts of backgrounds that do not have a long and illustrious tradition on the ice.†   (source)
  • Finally, having secured the agreement of a certain extremely illustrious Frenchman - I will merely call him 'M.†   (source)
  • You keep surprisingly illustrious company, Shadowhunter.†   (source)
  • He was not only the city's oldest and most illustrious physician, he was also its most fastidious man.†   (source)
  • Raiha's mother had been a renowned geisha, and her father was a member of one of Japan's most illustrious families, with almost limitless wealth.†   (source)
  • After the toast, the Spanish ambassador presents this illustrious descendant of the great Conquistador with yet another medal.†   (source)
  • This was probably true, for my husband was of illustrious lineage in his homeland, a fact implicit even in his name.†   (source)
  • And right now it was a gift of pictures twitched in pantomime, as Mr Dark made his illustrious jerk coldskinned over his warm-pulsed wrist as the stars came out above and, Jim stared and Will could not see and a long way off the last of the town people went away toward town in their warm cars, and Jim said, faintly, 'Gosh….' and Mr Dark rolled down his sleeve.†   (source)
  • No one knew or even cared that I was a descendant of the illustrious Ngubengcuka.†   (source)
  • You have a most illustrious reputation, Stronghammer, although some argue that it has been exaggerated beyond all reason.†   (source)
  • Puller had joined the military on the tail end of his father's illustrious career.†   (source)
  • That's the home of our illustrious vegetable and herb garden.†   (source)
  • And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader -- and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.†   (source)
  • Illustrious ladies dressed in foreign clothes, as exotic and shimmering as fireflies, paraded themselves in the fashionable entertainment centers on the arm of the proud new economists.†   (source)
  • Bill, his once illustrious shoulder-length blond curls now graying, cut short, and tucked under a baseball cap, makes a mock wounded face and Bernadine laughs heartily, as does Harriet Beinfeld, Bear's mom.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, was educated on a grand estate, the seventh pup of the seventh pup in an illustrious line of hunting dogs.†   (source)
  • You wanna know about the illustrious Adam Wilde?†   (source)
  • His response was a lame editorial 'we,' meaning that the illustrious general was conferring with himself.†   (source)
  • Writing of Adams that September, Benjamin Rush told a friend, "This illustrious patriot has not his superior, scarcely his equal for abilities and virtue on the whole of the continent of America."†   (source)
  • Allow me to present the illustrious smee.†   (source)
  • If he considered her good enough to bring into the home of his friends, she thought-the illustrious friends whose names she had seen on the inaccessible mountain peaks that were the society columns of the newspapers-she could not embarrass him by wearing her old dress.†   (source)
  • By 1760, Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia's most illustrious citizen, reckoned that Scots-Irish accounted for a third of the city population, with English and Germans each another third.†   (source)
  • Most of them gave me the usual hodge-podge of rumor, though some of our most illustrious graduates adamantly insisted that The Ten did not exist at all.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dorrico had been a janitor at Stony Brook for most of his illustrious fifty-year janitorial career.†   (source)
  • But what of our illustrious Eugenia?†   (source)
  • A farmer's son serving in the 1st North Carolina Infantry wrote to his father during another period of Confederate reverses: "Instead of indulging in feelings of despondency let us compare our situation and cause to those of our illustrious ancestors who achieved the liberties we have ever enjoyed and for which we are now contending."†   (source)
  • They implied illustrious forebears, perhaps on the mother's side.†   (source)
  • So why did they place their fortunes and their posterity in the hands of one illustrious citizen?†   (source)
  • The herald went on for many minutes, listing every deed, every honor, every title, accumulated by Heafstaag during his long and illustrious career.†   (source)
  • Your illustrious associate Morse is drooling down my neck.†   (source)
  • Of an author of the stature of John O'Hara (although I had far more illustrious literary idols, O'Hara represented for me the kind of writer a young editor might go out and get drunk with) there was no trace.†   (source)
  • So, the illustrious victory in the Battle of New Orleans was a powerful restorative to our national pride.†   (source)
  • Yes, Illustrious One.†   (source)
  • Those illustrious Senators with whom he had served, whose oratory could not attract the glory and romance which surrounded the name of Sam Houston, may have frowned upon his eccentric dress and his habit of whittling pine sticks on the Senate floor while muttering at the length of senatorial speeches.†   (source)
  • We saw a great painting on the wall over their heads, of the twenty illustrious men who had invented the candle.   (source)
    illustrious = famous and admired
  • An illustrious traveler of the period described the market as one of the most varied in the world.†   (source)
  • What do you think of our illustrious Elector Primo?†   (source)
  • At any rate, my illustrious ancestor would certainly approve of my daily routine.†   (source)
  • But what is an illustrious name nowadays?†   (source)
  • The great man and his illustrious relative from Boston, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Generalisimo Doctor Rafael L. Trujillo, Benefactor of our Country Illustrious and well-loved Jefe, Knowing as I do, the high esteem in which my husband Enrique Mirabal held your illustrious person, and now somewhat less confounded by the irreparable loss of my unforgettable companero, I write to inform Your Excellency of his death on Monday, the fourteenth day of this month.†   (source)
  • She drove governors and admirals mad, she watched eminent heroes of arms and letters who were not as illustrious as they believed, and even some who were, as they wept on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • ANNE DE LARMESSIN — KITSEY'S godmother—was hosting our party at a private club which even Hobie had never set foot in, but knew all about: its history (venerable), its architects (illustrious), and its membership (stellar, running the gamut from Aaron Burr to the Whartons).†   (source)
  • For the rest of the year, Fermina Daza did not attend any civic or social ceremonies, not even the Christmas celebrations, in which she and her husband had always been illustrious protagonists.†   (source)
  • Despite the mark-up I'd paid in repurchasing the fake from Mr. So-and-So (ideally an actor or a clothing designer who collected as a hobby, if not illustrious as a collector per se) I could then turn around and sell it again for sometimes twice what I'd bought it back for, to some Wall Street cheese fry who didn't know Chippendale from Ethan Allen but was more than thrilled with "official documents" proving that his Duncan Phyfe secretary or whatever came from the collection of Mr.…†   (source)
  • When Archbishop Dante de Luna died, bells all over the province tolled unceasingly for nine days and nine nights, and the public suffering was so great that his successor reserved the tolling of bells for the funeral services of the most illustrious of the dead.†   (source)
  • He brought route maps to encourage her, picture postcards of furious sunsets, poems to the primitive paradise of the Magdalena written by illustrious travelers and by those who had become travelers by virtue of the poems.†   (source)
  • But it was he, although it seemed absurd: the oldest and best-qualified doctor in the city, and one of its illustrious men for many other meritorious reasons, had died of a broken spine, at the age of eightyone, when he fell from the branch of a mango tree as he tried to catch a parrot.†   (source)
  • Then it was displayed on the walls of all the public and private institutions that felt obliged to pay tribute to the memory of their illustrious patron, and at last it was hung, after a second funeral, in the School of Fine Arts, where it was pulled down many years later by art students who burned it in the Plaza of the University as a symbol of an aesthetic and a time they despised.†   (source)
  • Whatever I, Sandra Isabel Garcia de la Torre, was, personally, was as a dolly on wheels to roll that illustrious de la Torre name from social gathering to social gathering.†   (source)
  • So be it; it was the way of the secretive laoban, one of the wealthiest and most illustrious taipans in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • You are looking lovely as always, and I see you've been sharing the illustrious past of this fine home with our guest here.†   (source)
  • You must understand, good sir, that such unique talents are what crown the illustrious smee as uncontested ruler of the mimicry world.†   (source)
  • She often had the feeling that he might be modeling himself after some ideal—some illustrious figure from his past that he had admired.†   (source)
  • It was either because of his job or because of his family, and a few hours researching the illustrious family history in the library on Sunday afternoon had been enough to convince Thibault that it was probably a bit of both.†   (source)
  • Surely they have to be for such an illustrious officer as yourself to make sure of their requirements.†   (source)
  • Our illustrious Archmage rarely emerges from his chambers, ignores nearly all communication, and has contributed nothing to Rowan's defense, and yet he suddenly wishes to speak with you.†   (source)
  • The trust was not earned but given in faith, for she is the wife of one of our own, a brave soldier, a first son of an illustrious family of the true China.†   (source)
  • It is precisely because I have not forgotten it that I am speaking, 'Robert Stadler' is an illustrious name, which I would hate to see destroyed.†   (source)
  • … All right, so we've got two illustrious relatives who want to meet privately but go about it in a very complicated way.†   (source)
  • "An illustrious judge from the United States," declared the tall black assistant manager in a distinct British accent.†   (source)
  • "The Twentieth Century Motor Company," said Lee Hunsacker, "was one of the most illustrious names in the history of American industry.†   (source)
  • Our illustrious chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said that the ubiquitous 'we' could get rid of the military because in six months 'we' would have all the controls we needed in Europe.†   (source)
  • -the last descendant of an illustrious name in our industrial history, the woman executive possible only in America, the Operating Vice-President of a great railroad-Miss Dagny Taggart!†   (source)
  • "My astute uncle," continued the clerk, overriding and not hearing Prefontaine's soft monotone, "made it completely clear that we were privileged to be dealing with illustrious men who required total confidentiality.†   (source)
  • "Illustrious One," he said to him one day, "my life was empty until you revealed to me the True Path.†   (source)
  • Would that the spirit of the illustrious dead whom we lament today could speak from the grave to both parties to this deplorable discord in tones which should reach each and every heart throughout this broad territory: "My countrymen! know one another, and you will love one another!†   (source)
  • It would demean the Professor needlessly, would place too much emphasis on the sycophancy he had occasionally displayed in the face of manifestations of German might and potency, to portray him as buffoonishly servile in Duffield's presence; he possesses, after all, his own illustrious repute as a scholar and an expert in his field.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, his speeches were a learned explanation of his position, setting forth the Constitutional history of the Senate and its relationship to the state legislatures, and the statements and examples of Burke, and of Calhoun, Webster, and other famous Senators who had disagreed with Legislative instructions: "Better to follow the example of the illustrious men whose names have been given than to abandon altogether judgment and conviction in deference to popular clamor."†   (source)
  • That is our founder; our illustrious founder, standing in the courtyard with one foot raised.†   (source)
  • You can't look like a personage and not expect to receive an illustrious name.†   (source)
  • Look what an illustrious company I get for the price of one.†   (source)
  • Over the fireplace in the drawing room hung a large old painting of what was not but looked like an illustrious ancestor.†   (source)
  • She would die a well-tended lady who had kept up fiercely all civilized duties, as developed before Phidias and through Botticelli--all that great masters and women of illustrious courts had prescribed and followed for perfection, the kind of intelligence to wear in the eyes and the molds of sweetness and authority.†   (source)
  • They and the satin-wood and ormolu furniture, the carpet, the hanging bronze candelabrum, the mirrors and sconces, were all a single composition, the design of one illustrious hand.†   (source)
  • Your illustrious ancestor?†   (source)
  • Good God, though we did play the brigand we might at least emulate the illustrious and spare pretty women.†   (source)
  • Then Uzume spoke, saying: "We rejoice and are glad because there is a deity more illustrious than Thine Augustness."†   (source)
  • But we should wrong these illustrious men very greatly if we insisted that they got nothing from these alliances but comfort, flattery and the pleasures of the body.†   (source)
  • Now the daughter of the king, Medea, conceived an overpowering passion for the illustrious foreign visitor and, when her father imposed an impossible task as the price of the Golden Fleece, compounded charms that enabled him to succeed.†   (source)
  • Stephen Albert continued: "I don't believe that your illustrious ancestor played idly with these variations.†   (source)
  • His nose was straight, his mouth was held in with tender rancor, and he had black, continuous, illustrious brows.†   (source)
  • This gave the man on the street two satisfactions: that of entering illustrious drawing rooms and that of not wiping his feet on the threshold.†   (source)
  • I was no wizard, for sure, nor gazetted as anything illustrious, nor billed to stand up to Apollyon with his horrible scales and bear's feet, nor slated to find the answer to all my shames like Jean-Jacques on the way to Vincennes sinking down with emotion of the conception that evil society is to blame for all that happened to warm, impulsive, loving me.†   (source)
  • Neil Dumont was a lanky, anemic society youth, with shoulders stooped under the burden of too many illustrious ancestors.†   (source)
  • …minutes—to the platform where Guy Francon had held forth as the speaker at the commencement exercises of the Stanton Institute of Technology, Guy Francon who had brought his own person from New York for the occasion; Guy Francon, of the illustrious firm of Francon & Heyer, vice-president of the Architects' Guild of America, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, member of the National Fine Arts Commission, Secretary of the Arts and Crafts League of New York, chairman of…†   (source)
  • That illustrious building was to Hugh a carnival.†   (source)
  • No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious.†   (source)
  • And above all, he was overwhelmed in tenderness for his friends, who were all illustrious.†   (source)
  • The professor of materia medica, Dr. Lloyd Davidson, would have been an illustrious shopkeeper.†   (source)
  • They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.†   (source)
  • At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the New Year, most illustrious—†   (source)
  • We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.†   (source)
  • I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.†   (source)
  • Drink, most illustrious, take your glass!†   (source)
  • An illustrious person sends you; an illustrious person awaits you.†   (source)
  • Your father was saying to-day that he'd had an invitation from your illustrious relative.†   (source)
  • The Messala is nobly descended; his family has been illustrious through many generations.†   (source)
  • As soon as his illustrious eminence, the cardinal, arrives, we will begin.†   (source)
  • No. Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.†   (source)
  • Oh, we talked of the illustrious dead of whom that magnificent ruin is a glorious monument!†   (source)
  • 'Our illustrious host and friend,' said Bar; 'our shining mercantile star;—going into politics?'†   (source)
  • 'tis not I who say that, but Didymus of Alexandria, and they are illustrious words.†   (source)
  • Although a Christian, may God forgive me, I have always sought to revenge my illustrious father.†   (source)
  • That which had been merely illustrious, had become august.†   (source)
  • He tells me he served your illustrious father, and that he owes his fortune to him.†   (source)
  • There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists.†   (source)
  • I am sure, my dear Albert, whatever may be your career, you will soon render that name illustrious.†   (source)
  • I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some perplexity from it to my illustrious client.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that's the doctors in the theatre, conferring honorary degrees on the Duke of Hamptonshire and a lot more illustrious gents of that sort.†   (source)
  • Illustrious prince, I am a poor wretch in soul and spirit, but ask the veriest scoundrel whether he would prefer to deal with one like himself, or with a noble-hearted man like you, and there is no doubt as to his choice!†   (source)
  • He came of an old and illustrious Spanish family and you remember that he was one of the first followers of saint Ignatius.†   (source)
  • The inscription ran thus: In memory of John Durbeyfield, rightly d'Urberville, of the once powerful family of that Name, and Direct Descendant through an illustrious Line from Sir Pagan d'Urberville, one of the Knights of the Conqueror.†   (source)
  • We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.†   (source)
  • [heartily] Have I the pleasure of again receiving a visit from the illustrious Commander of Calatrava?†   (source)
  • By The Illustrious Kean!†   (source)
  • Sinking her voice, drawing Mrs. Dalloway into the shelter of a common femininity, a common pride in the illustrious qualities of husbands and their sad tendency to overwork, Lady Bradshaw (poor goose—one didn't dislike her) murmured how, "just as we were starting, my husband was called up on the telephone, a very sad case.†   (source)
  • When the illustrious maidens were gone, Tom turned wearily to his keepers and said— "May it please your lordships to grant me leave to go into some corner and rest me?"†   (source)
  • He became completely bogged in Newton's "Fluxions"; he spoke of Newton to Tubbs and found that the illustrious Director knew nothing about him.†   (source)
  • He liked to receive great ambassadors and their gorgeous trains, and listen to the affectionate messages they brought from illustrious monarchs who called him brother.†   (source)
  • Around the throne on high not a single star quivered; but the deep intonations of the heavy thunder constantly vibrated upon the ear; whilst the terrific lightning revelled in angry mood through the cloudy chambers of heaven, seeming to scorn the power exerted over its terror by the illustrious Franklin!†   (source)
  • What unspeakable glory it would be, if they could recognise him, and realise that the derided mock king of the slums and back alleys was become a real King, with illustrious dukes and princes for his humble menials, and the English world at his feet!†   (source)
  • The body of illustrious men named by the late King as his executors appeared, to ask Tom's approval of certain acts of theirs—rather a form, and yet not wholly a form, since there was no Protector as yet.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury made report of the decree of the Council of Executors concerning the obsequies of his late most illustrious Majesty, and finished by reading the signatures of the Executors, to wit: the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord Chancellor of England; William Lord St. John; John Lord Russell; Edward Earl of Hertford; John Viscount Lisle; Cuthbert Bishop of Durham— Tom was not listening—an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him.†   (source)
  • An illustrious man anywhere!†   (source)
  • Your daughter Elizabeth, it is presumed, will not long bear the name of Bennet, after her elder sister has resigned it, and the chosen partner of her fate may be reasonably looked up to as one of the most illustrious personages in this land.'†   (source)
  • Out of his waistcoat, as usual, grows a tree, on the main branches of which the above illustrious names are inscribed.†   (source)
  • As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna's face suddenly assumed an expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious patroness.†   (source)
  • Even those who are principally actuated by the love of fame are necessarily made familiar with the thought that they are not exclusively actuated by that motive; and they discover that the desire of getting a living is mingled in their minds with the desire of making life illustrious.†   (source)
  • The chairman resumed as follows: "By what illustrious achievement for the honor of the Throne and State did the founder of your great line lift himself to the sacred dignity of the British nobility?"†   (source)
  • The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy, more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history.†   (source)
  • It was to the secret annoyance of his wife that Mr Wititterly said all this, for, although she was bursting with pride and arrogance, she would have had the illustrious guests believe that their visit was quite a common occurrence, and that they had lords and baronets to see them every day in the week.†   (source)
  • Scarcely an individual is to be perceived in it who does not recall the idea of an active and illustrious career: the Senate is composed of eloquent advocates, distinguished generals, wise magistrates, and statesmen of note, whose language would at all times do honor to the most remarkable parliamentary debates of Europe.†   (source)
  • With a generosity that would have rendered a Roman illustrious throughout all time, but which, in the career of one so simple and humble, would have been forever lost to the world but for this unpretending legend, Deerslayer threw all his force into a desperate effort, shoved the canoe off with a power that sent it a hundred feet from the shore, as it might be in an instant, and fell forward into the lake, himself, face downward; his assailant necessarily following him.†   (source)
  • Pages might yet be written to prove, from this illustrious example, the defects of human excellence; to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.†   (source)
  • He sat down beside me, taking some pains to sit on the form, I thought, in imitation of the print of his illustrious model on the sofa.†   (source)
  • This dispute, much to the credit as well of the illustrious potentate above mentioned as of the worthy and enlightened directors of the railroad, has been pacifically arranged on the principle of mutual compromise.†   (source)
  • Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.†   (source)
  • This time the Thursday boat had not arrived at ten at night—so the people had waited at the landing all day for nothing; they were driven to their homes by a heavy storm without having had a view of the illustrious foreigners.†   (source)
  • This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era, worse remains behind!†   (source)
  • "Oh—and the new style of parsons wear moustaches and long beards," continued the illustrious traveller, "and look like Moses and Aaron complete, and make we fokes in the congregation feel all over like the children of Israel."†   (source)
  • This young gentleman was of an excellent--indeed of an illustrious family, but, by a variety of untoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it, and he ceased to bestir himself in the world, or to care for the retrieval of his fortunes.†   (source)
  • In the chimney corner was a fire-grate with a fluted semicircular back, having urns and festoons cast in relief thereon, and the chairs were of the kind which, since that day, has cast lustre upon the names of Chippendale and Sheraton, though, in point of fact, their patterns may have been such as those illustrious carpenters never saw or heard of.†   (source)
  • At this time she had a cult for Mary Stuart and enthusiastic veneration for illustrious or unhappy women.†   (source)
  • This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Lundie lived to marry his ancient love, and retired a war-worn and battered veteran; but his name has been rendered illustrious in our own time by the deeds of a younger brother, who succeeded to his territorial title, which, however, was shortly after merged in one earned by his valor on the ocean.†   (source)
  • Most of them were sitting round the room in seats divided by wooden elbows like those of crude cathedral stalls, which were carved with the initials of many an illustrious drunkard of former times who had passed his days and his nights between them, and now lay as an alcoholic cinder in the nearest churchyard.†   (source)
  • But if I appear not, then am I a degraded and dishonoured knight, accused of witchcraft and of communion with infidels—the illustrious name which has grown yet more so under my wearing, becomes a hissing and a reproach.†   (source)
  • …was not vindictive—and some philanthropists have been so; that he was not intolerant—and there is a rumour that some zealous theologians have not been altogether free from that blemish; that although he would probably have declined to give his body to be burned in any public cause, and was far from bestowing all his goods to feed the poor, he had that charity which has sometimes been lacking to very illustrious virtue—he was tender to other men's failings, and unwilling to impute evil.†   (source)
  • By degrees, the observer came to feel nearly as much interest in this chicken of illustrious race as the mother-hen did.†   (source)
  • Accordingly a thorough and searching investigation had swept the booksellers' shops, hawkers' stands, public and private libraries, and even the little book-shelf by the country fireside, and had brought the world's entire mass of printed paper, bound or in sheets, to swell the already mountain bulk of our illustrious bonfire.†   (source)
  • Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.†   (source)
  • Stimulated either by this compliment, or by her burning indignation, that illustrious woman then added, 'Let him meet it if he can!'†   (source)
  • Well; the disclosure of the document to a third person, who shall be nameless, would bring in question the honor of a personage of most exalted station; and this fact gives the holder of the document an ascendancy over the illustrious personage whose honor and peace are so jeopardized.†   (source)
  • He had been afraid that he could not save his illustrious employers from the anger of an excited peasantry.†   (source)
  • …kind, belonging to Edwin Larcher, Esq. This was not one of the sales indicating the depression of trade; on the contrary, it was due to Mr. Larcher's great success in the carrying business, which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an illustrious Spa physician—furnished indeed with such large framefuls of expensive flesh-painting in the dining-room, that Mrs. Larcher was nervous until reassured by finding the subjects to be Scriptural.†   (source)
  • In short, the house in Saville Row, which must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was cosiness, comfort, and method idealised.†   (source)
  • While the horrid clamor was still ringing in our ears we heard an exulting strain, as if a thousand instruments of music, with height and depth and sweetness in their tones, at once tender and triumphant, were struck in unison, to greet the approach of some illustrious hero, who had fought the good fight and won a glorious victory, and was come to lay aside his battered arms forever.†   (source)
  • My feelings are profound, but I possessed a coolness of judgment that fitted me for illustrious achievements.†   (source)
  • When the noise had moderated a little, the chair proposed that "our illustrious guests be at once elected, by complimentary acclamation, to membership in our ever-glorious organization, the paradise of the free and the perdition of the slave."†   (source)
  • As he spoke, some rough-looking men advanced to the verge of the bonfire, and threw in, as it appeared, all the rubbish of the herald's office,--the blazonry of coat armor, the crests and devices of illustrious families, pedigrees that extended back, like lines of light, into the mist of the dark ages, together with stars, garters, and embroidered collars, each of which, as paltry a bawble as it might appear to the uninstructed eye, had once possessed vast significance, and was still,…†   (source)
  • But for ever henceforth let this cape that advances into the sea discovered by yourself be known by your own illustrious name—Cape Saknussemm.†   (source)
  • Why, about the prodigious nature of his fall, of course—from the loftiest place in the world to the lowest; from the most illustrious station in the world to the obscurest; from the grandest vocation among men to the basest.†   (source)
  • …assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.†   (source)
  • Stepping from the throne towards them, he said, with all graciousness, "If, as I believe, O illustrious men, you are indeed the heralds of the Christ just born, know that I have this night consulted those wisest in things Jewish, and they say with one voice he should be born in Bethlehem of Judea.†   (source)
  • Most illustrious, two words with you.†   (source)
  • 'My dear madam,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'perhaps I cannot better express the conclusion at which Mrs. Micawber, your humble servant, and I may add our children, have jointly and severally arrived, than by borrowing the language of an illustrious poet, to reply that our Boat is on the shore, and our Bark is on the sea.'†   (source)
  • His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.†   (source)
  • Has not the Captain—or the Colonel as I may now style him—done deeds which make the name of Crawley illustrious?†   (source)
  • "I have a feeling," he said, advancing to the table and laying his hand upon the green cloth, "that I should like to join ye in this reception of our illustrious visitor.†   (source)
  • He is one who raises himself from private considerations and breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts.†   (source)
  • Chanticleer and his family had already been transported thither, where the two hens had forthwith begun an indefatigable process of egg-laying, with an evident design, as a matter of duty and conscience, to continue their illustrious breed under better auspices than for a century past.†   (source)
  • At least, this was stated in a very fine report drawn up by one of our pharmaceutical chiefs, one of our masters, the illustrious Cadet de Gassicourt!†   (source)
  • It has come down through the illustrious line like the plate, or the pictures, or the place in Lincolnshire.†   (source)
  • After reading about the dangers that threatened Russia, the hopes the Emperor placed on Moscow and especially on its illustrious nobility, Sonya, with a quiver in her voice due chiefly to the attention that was being paid to her, read the last words: "We ourselves will not delay to appear among our people in that Capital and in other parts of our realm for consultation, and for the direction of all our levies, both those now barring the enemy's path and those freshly formed to defeat…†   (source)
  • …other four, "in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:" after which the mail was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses…†   (source)
  • He closed one half of the folding doors, and holding the other ajar called out to the little Pole: "Most illustrious, will you be pleased to retire as well?"†   (source)
  • Lord Steyne was talking and laughing with a great and illustrious lady at his side, when he looked up and saw Becky.†   (source)
  • As he is not illustrious for his cookery, this may be supposed to be a matter of state rather than enjoyment on the old girl's part, but she keeps her state with all imaginable cheerfulness.†   (source)
  • I am so particular about the whereabouts of the Jew because it will be important to thee, O illustrious! when thou comest to consider what is to be done; for already I know, and by the knowledge I flatter myself I am growing in wisdom, that in every scheme involving human action there are three elements always to be taken into account—time, place, and agency.†   (source)
  • The Evening of a Long Day That illustrious man and great national ornament, Mr Merdle, continued his shining course.†   (source)
  • "Usher," interposed the cardinal, aloud, "announce Master Jacques Coppenole, clerk of the aldermen of the illustrious city of Ghent."†   (source)
  • As to Monsieur Homais, he had a preference for all those that recalled some great man, an illustrious fact, or a generous idea, and it was on this system that he had baptized his four children.†   (source)
  • Know that the great lord and illustrious Knight, SIR SAGRAMOR LE DESIROUS having condescended to meet the King's Minister, Hank Morgan, the which is surnamed The Boss, for satisfaction of offence anciently given, these will engage in the lists by Camelot about the fourth hour of the morning of the sixteenth day of this next succeeding month.†   (source)
  • He alighted, the Mayor advanced, the address was read; the Illustrious Personage replied, then said a few words to Farfrae, and shook hands with Lucetta as the Mayor's wife.†   (source)
  • The aldermen did as they had done before, and preceded by their sergeants, advanced to receive their illustrious guest.†   (source)
  • Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.†   (source)
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