How To Use Illustrious In A Sentence

The recent diminution on the international scene of these three nations means less illustrious sides are no longer gripped with a fear factor when facing what have tended to be considered behemoths of the game.
She comes from an illustrious political family which includes two former Cabinet ministers.
‘It's meant to be’ jibes Danilo as he storms off the Westmorland Hall stage with such splendid melodrama he almost pushes conductor Wyn Davies into his illustrious players.
He also expressed pleasure to be following in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor Charles Darwin.
It is a game that boasts a long and illustrious history in its birthplace of India. Times, Sunday Times

Here are some of the princess's illustrious predecessors who have made a name for themselves. The Sun
It was clear that the native tutors had no control whatever over their illustrious pupil, and every creature in and about the zenana was his submissive slave, so that Gerrard became seriously exercised as to the development of his character. The Path to Honour
The name of this illustrious saint is intimately connected with a most magnificent specimen of calligraphical art of the eighth century, preserved in the Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
At length returning home, he obtained of Ængus, king of Munster, a grant of the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that the island was called Arran of the Saints. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments.
Then, as the curtain parted and an orchestra played, it was time for one of Aimee Semple McPherson's illustrious pageants .. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Dirtiest Race Ever Reaches Its Peak
This post also nobly defended in the late war, while it brings the affecting recollection of a confidential friend in my military family, associates with the remembrance of the illustrious defence of another fort, in the war of the revolution, by the _friend_ now near me. Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
We get to peek behind the scenes of two illustrious gardens tonight. The Sun
It is, doubtless, in humble imitation of such illustrious examples, that an Irishman of the lowest class, when he means to express that he is a member of a committee, says, _I am a committee_; thus consolidating the power, wisdom, and virtue of a whole committee in his own person. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
For others, it represents more than they have earned in their life, or more than illustrious predecessors earned in a career. Times, Sunday Times
Among other illustrious names who have given a brilliance to these alleyed walks and corridors are to be recalled Corneille, Condé, Saint Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Sidonia, in spite of the whispered dislike of an illustrious personage, opened the campaign with all the full appanages of a giant of the highest standing. Framley Parsonage
Rani Laxmi Bai has been given a place amongst the greatest women in the history of the world and is an illustrious figure in Indian history.
Our mutual respect is born of the natural ties between mariners and a long and illustrious shared history.
Although seven hundred years have passed since Marco Polo made his illustrious twenty-five-year journey across Asia, his daring adventure continues to inspire globetrotters.
Alex and Ben augmented the ziti with a spread from a local housewife turned illustrious caterer. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Her most illustrious parts were the title roles of Giselle, La Sylphide, and Esmeralda.
If the question is reduced to one of great names, into the other side of the scales may be thrown not two but dozens of the most illustrious men who not only wrote, but _became famous mainly because they wrote_. The Young Priest's Keepsake
Mexico, and Hanchett, at that time a resident of Vicksburg, and laboring in a profession -- the saltatorial, to wit -- a shade less illustrious than that to which he was so soon to attain, was the first man in the city to enlist. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
Maybe the Brazilian with the illustrious name was in the wrong series. Times, Sunday Times
He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a radio producer.
But with the visitors frustrating their illustrious opponents and Milan's nerves jangling, the league leaders were awarded a dubious spot-kick four minutes from the end when Empoli goalkeeper Daniele Balli collided with Jon Dahl Tomasson.
I have again discoursed, and mingled my soul, with friends whose nobility of spirit honored the illustrious stems from which they sprang; but, like the blossomed bough torn from its branch, they are gone, and spread fragrance in my path no more. The Scottish Chiefs
She has had an illustrious career.
It is an illustrious name and he does not want it used right, left and centre. Times, Sunday Times
Ferguson contends that ‘preprint clerkly ideologies about the value of the ` illustrious vernaculars’ " helped to shape the development of the standardized print languages.
Before we left he showed me the wrought iron gates which bore the names of Glasgow's most illustrious graduates.
Grandpa Favre’ s play as the season wears is known to decrescendo, and this has already been one of the southern slinger’ s worst outings in his illustrious career. The interim coach vs. the replacements
This was the Blues' first blank of the season and it came about due to a defensive masterclass from their less illustrious hosts. The Sun
There was no excuse for that, considering all their illustrious talent.
Using samples from his illustrious career, he takes the reader through his thought process and explains principles both basic (setting up an efficient studio, thumbnail sketches) and advanced (shapewelding, counterchange, flagging the head). Imaginative Realism Reviews
The laibon retells the accounts of his illustrious ancestors of the great migration from the North.
The courses are not inexpensive, as the illustrious name of the event hotel might indicate.
In the absence of anything more appealing just now, concocting distaff versions of some of the sport's more illustrious bouts from the past is reckoned to be good business.
He studied, he formulated his system, he obtained the chair of metaphysics in the University of Madrid, and he founded a school, from which has since issued a brilliant pleiad of philosophers and statesmen, and of men illustrious for their learning, their eloquence, and their virtues. Author’s Preface to the First American Edition
But if he makes the noble gesture, a thankful nation will always remember a man made in the likeness of his illustrious grand-aunt, Constance.
He was, according to one of his many illustrious pupils, ‘a charming teacher, so simple, unaffected and sincere in manner, so chaste in style, so clear in demonstration’.
For doing the Prime Minister's bidding, he was promoted to become her illustrious speech-writer and the person who constructed the words that she used throughout the last campaign.
The meme our illustrious interlocutor is faultily remembering is “information wants to be free.” Bits Debate: Responding to Readers on Filtering - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Ethan was very fond of boasting of his illustrious ancestor, and on that account found himself frequently "joshed" by his chums. Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge
He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a radio producer.
Here are some of the princess's illustrious predecessors who have made a name for themselves. The Sun
The actor is the only one of that illustrious quartet who openly uses a spittoon, clears his throat and expectorates into the receptacle below his desk.
This was the Blues' first blank of the season and it came about due to a defensive masterclass from their less illustrious hosts. The Sun
It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
As humble privates and illustrious generals, Scottish soldiers marched and fought across the globe, in the service of the British Empire.
Image now to yourself this illustrious Cavalier mounted on his _hackney_; and see if it does not bring before you the Church, bestrid by some lumpish minister of state, who turns and winds it at his pleasure. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
He was a very consistent performer and rarely had a bad match in his long and illustrious career.
The manufactured praise accompanying Grohl, supplied by a corps of pro fuglemen who lead and escort the illustrious on his vanity venture, is grand.
At the same time, I consulted illustrious medievalists such as the dear and unforgettable 'tienne Gilson, but it was evident that the only Vetera analecta were those I had seen at Sainte Genevi've. The Name of the Rose
Its title is Yanks and the script is by Colin Welland, one of Britain's most illustrious dramatists.
However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs. Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful "For what we are about to receive --" with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there. Is Shakespeare Dead?
The other two look backwards over porn's not so illustrious past.
They have such an illustrious team but they are still utterly unpredictable. Times, Sunday Times
But Winter went on to reject assertions that Ferguson is mellowing as he winds towards the end of an illustrious career.
Following that illustrious example, Giacomo shall be Anglified into Jackeymo. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
Despite two illustrious parents, the company has been severely constricted for cash.
Writing to Egbert, Archbishop of York, of whose bibliomaniacal character and fine library we have yet to speak, Boniface thanks that illustrious collector for the choice volumes he had kindly sent him, and further entreats Egbert to procure for him transcripts of the smaller works Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Nor his skill in engineering a cast so full of illustrious names. Times, Sunday Times
The first was that we got into a winning position against our illustrious opponents. Times, Sunday Times
I don't need to conform to a prevailing stereotype in the search for distinguished and illustrious positions.
Precisely the same argument applies to one of Fury's most illustrious predecessors as heavyweight champion. Times, Sunday Times
The Laurentian Library was built between 1524 and 1559 in the cloister of the church of San Lorenzo for the Medici Pope, Clement VII, to house the illustrious family collection of manuscripts and printed books. Michelangelo,
And maybe the grandads in the crowd will fill in the details of his illustrious career to the younger generations, so they fully recognise the fabulous contribution this genial Irishman brought to the famous Lancashire football club.
He will pull down the curtain on his illustrious career on Sunday, May 20-and then make his comeback three weeks later.
He still possesses the same hunger and childlike love of the game that has defined him throughout his illustrious career.
an illustrious achievement
There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the biggest surprise was the number of aircraft carriers: Ark Royal, Eagle, Indomitable, Illustrious, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable … their bulldog names went on over two pages. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
Answer: entrust responsibility to an illustrious former player. Times, Sunday Times
This is exactly how evil overlords laugh and I know how to spell it due to my illustrious television writing career.
There are many similarities in the short but illustrious careers of Best and John, now the firmest of friends.
They totally outplayed their illustrious opponents and were easy and deserving winners.
The Marchesa was attentive, and the Confessor added, “She is not immortal; and the few years more, that might have been allotted her, she deserves to forfeit, since she would have employed them in cankering the honour of an illustrious house.” The Italian
The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death - fraught pestilence. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
“But,” said I, “is he not a prydydd, an illustrious poet; does he not write pennillion which everybody admires?” Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
In a curious irony of history, an epigone frequently becomes better known than his/her illustrious namesake and predecessor. The other (and greater) Moctezuma I
On my return home, I had a party to supper; and the whole conversation centred in encomiums on the person, graces, and amiable manners of the illustrious Heir-apparent. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
The name of _tenson_ was given to those poetical contests in verse which took place in the Courts of Love, or before illustrious princes. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
If I do not succeed in getting Dionea this place (and all your Excellency's illustriousness and all my poor eloquence will be needed to counteract the sinister reports attaching to our poor little waif), it will be best to accept your suggestion of taking the girl into your household at Rome, since you are curious to see what you call our baleful beauty. Hauntings
The former Fab gives an airing to one of the most illustrious back catalogues around. Times, Sunday Times
According to George W. Bush, the favorite younger “bro” of Jesus Christ, the Saudis are our great friends, and they are the most important ally in the great and illustrious Global War on Terror. Think Progress » Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’
It was there that the Rishis and the gods Varuna, Agni, Prajapati, Narayana also called Hari, Mahadeva and the illustrious Grandsire of great splendour, appointed the resplendent Bhrigu to officiate at a sacrifice. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
Even Queen Victoria, that most German-connected and -minded of 19th-century British monarchs, would denounce her most illustrious forebear, Elizabeth I, for the "cruelty to my ancestress, Mary Queen of Scots. Servants To Masters
However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful 'For what we are about to receive --' with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite. Our Mutual Friend
The hotel with the illustrious past and the four-star deluxe rating must wait a little longer for a fifth star.
She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead. World’s Great Men of Color
Second rows have an illustrious history as Lions leaders. Times, Sunday Times
In days gone by Milan would still have been the favourites in this tie but they are a shadow of the great sides of their illustrious past. The Sun
By the bye, the publication of a splendid mezzotinto engraving of his likeness by Reynolds, was a great matter of glorification to Goldsmith, especially as it appeared in such illustrious company. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Virginie Demont-Breton is hardly less distinguished in art than her illustrious father. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
campagne" of an illustrious French personage, who had offered it to the Under Two Flags
WE could witness the final curtain being brought down on one of the most illustrious careers in football tonight. The Sun
He switched serenely between keyboard and guitar throughout, just as his illustrious predecessor used to do. Times, Sunday Times
Yet I dare say the chorus of a musical comedy would not be awestruck -- would, indeed, 'bridle' -- if one unrolled to them their illustrious pedigree. Yet Again
Aside from your illustrious career as an actor, how many plays have you written?
All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
Made illustrious through the chrism of episcopacy and through the divine blood of martyrdom, ye are, O God-wise ones, glorified God-beseemingly on account of both, crying out: Blessed art Thou in the temple of Thy glory, O The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
The 21,000-ton ship berthed at Greenwich to commemorate the new affiliation between Illustrious and the City of London.
Another goodie is a reading of the Constitution by some illustrious New Yorkers. Archive 2004-08-01
Marienbad and music are synonymous, not only because of its illustrious musical visitors, but the summer season is chock-a-block with musical events.
For others, it represents more than they have earned in their life, or more than illustrious predecessors earned in a career. Times, Sunday Times
But in Salzburg, a land laved by mists and mountain air, all the star-power in the world fades away before the glory of Mozart, its most illustrious son.
And, we ask, was it by the survival of the fittest that Julius Ceasar, [tr. note: sic] one of the grandest rulers of all ages, should succumb under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius: that Paul and Seneca should die by authority of their inferior, Nero; that Popery, rotten to the core and represented by men who would have brought on the ignominous [tr. note: sic] collapse or extinction of every other dynasty in the days of the Roman pornocracy, should survive, while the illustrious house of Henry I. sank away to ruin in the third and fourth generation; that John Hus should die at the stake and Jean Charlier de Gerson in timid monastic retirement, while Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
Marienbad and music are synonymous, not only because of its illustrious musical visitors, but the summer season is chock-a-block with musical events.
Obviously there is great variation in how useful, innovative, illogical, lazy, funny, awkward, redundant, etc. these coinages are, but the underlying act (word formation through - y suffixation) has a long and illustrious history. Link love: language (4)
A path of undoubtable success awaits Sylvana, with Phantom of the Opera being an exciting and notable beginning to her illustrious Cape Town career.
Captain Gino Falconi is tonight following in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors as he conducts the band of the Royal Regiment of Canada. Dinner in Honour of The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario The Honourable Pauline McGibbon
Come with me, illustrious sir, and I will show thee the marvels hidden within this transparent castle, whereof I am the alcaide and perpetual warden; for I am Montesinos himself, from whom the cave takes its name. ' Don Quixote
Sometime between the lamb chops and the chocolate mousse, Maestro Domingo presented his illustrious cast.
But it is not just his family's illustrious past which concerns the present Lord Lansdowne.
Now, of this number of men it is not perhaps too much to assume, that more than one-half consists of the noble wreck and remainder of those magnificent armies led to victory by the illustrious Wellington, but certainly not in the colonies, and the present cost of half-pay and invaliding not therefore chargeable to colonial account. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
[2835] The old Latin version renders episemon, insigne, illustrious, but there seems to be a reference to the Valentinian notion of the mystic number of 888 formed (10+8+200+70+400+200) by the numerical value of the letters in the word 'Iesous. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
In these instances, it is rare for the more illustrious team not to make amends for their sloppiness second time around.
Answer: entrust responsibility to an illustrious former player. Times, Sunday Times
The gutsy left-arm seamer showed his skills with the bat on a track where his more illustrious team-mates were dismissed cheaply.
The former Fab gives an airing to one of the most illustrious back catalogues around. Times, Sunday Times
'You recollect the duchesse in St. - Simon, who, on the death of a sinner of illustrious race, said, "On me dira ce qu'on voudra, on ne me persuadera pas que Dieu n'y regarde deux fois avant de damner un homme de sa qualité. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
And maybe the grandads in the crowd will fill in the details of his illustrious career to the younger generations, so they fully recognise the fabulous contribution this genial Irishman brought to the famous Lancashire football club.
It led to an autumn defensive personnel nightmare that was further undermined by a collection of schoolboy howlers that embarrassed an illustrious unit.
Heil Gregg, oh illustrious and righteous fuhrer! normajean Gregg defends GOP opposition, says Dems moving too far left
On paper, this Pool 4 game was the ultimate home banker, with the visitors supposedly unregarded cannon fodder for the illustrious former European champions; they were the most whelpish of underdogs.
All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
In his illustrious career, only one academic title seems to have eluded him: scuba-diving instructor at Tufts, a job he sought, he says, because it would have amused him to list the credential on the "flyleaf of my next book. The Man Who Defined Deviancy Up
Yet its illustrious past is also a burden. Times, Sunday Times
The Margaret O'Carroll already mentioned, a descendant and progenitress of illustrious women, rode privately to Trim, as we are told, with some English prisoners, taken by her husband, A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
The Ustad sung paeans of her musical skills as well as that of her illustrious father, the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, who was an eminent sitar player.
Mallet (or Malet, as the old Scandinavian name was now corruptly spelt), one of the illustrious twenty-five "conservators" of Magna Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
She was inspired by an illustrious past. Times, Sunday Times
I cannot conclude these opinions without paying tribute to the talents of my illustrious country-women; who, unpatronized by the courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of literature, and ennoble themselves by the unperishable lustre of MENTAL PRE-EMINENCE! Sappho and Phaon
I saw upon this superb and triumphal vehicle a white swan in amorous embrace with Theseus's daughter, an illustrious nymph of unbelievable beauty. Archive 2006-12-01
Such films inevitably entailed working with some illustrious and highly opinionated presenters and performers.
Books remain at the core of the festival and we are thrilled to have such illustrious names joining us again this year. Times, Sunday Times
The fair-weather friends have evidently evaporated into thin air, effectively abandoning him and vilifying his illustrious name.
« 'During the recess (1788), that illustrious sage, who had so long presided over the judicial decisions of his country, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, thought that many years of labour, without reproach, might be followed by a few years of rest, and retired from the judicative bench. Peerage of England. ...
I have what I came here for, and I am in illustrious company with the likes of the Queen of Sheba, with my own real, albeit tiny, prized Bahraini pearl. In Search of Bahraini Pearls
When the comptroller-general proposed to the king to abolish privileges, and assess the impost equally, renouncing the twentieths, diminishing the gabel, suppressing custom-houses in the interior and establishing provincial assemblies, Louis XVI. recognized an echo of his illustrious ministers. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
The illustrious Narayana, otherwise called Hari, when he resolved upon Creation, thought of a Being who would be puissant enough to create the universe. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
And at the interval they were holding their more illustrious opponents as they went into the break level.
Einstein, the illustriously famous physicist of the 20th century
The SPEAKER, after eulogising the white tall hat, added that although he was glad that they had Sir SQUIRE BANCROFT with them (Hear, hear) he was bound to remark that not infrequently of late he had seen that illustrious histrion wearing in the streets of London a cloth cap more suitable to the golf-links or the Highlands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
The mustachioed Mr. Blot began his career as a negotiant in Tours and gradually began acquiring small domains in Montlouis, a not-terribly-fashionable appellation on the South Bank of the Loire, and eventually a few acres in the more illustrious town of Vouvray, across the river. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
Many philosophers have supposed the universe to be filled with an extremely subtile fluid, which they have termed ethereal; and this hypothesis has been sanctioned by the illustrious authority of Newton. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
The Principal Secretary on the occasion also felicitated erudite poet and versatile litterateur Mr. Arjun Dev Majboor and illustrious Kashmiri musician and artist Mr. Krishan Langoo. Muslim-Pandit brotherhood, harmony intact:, Young Pandit artists showcase Kashmiri culture
I shall use the term excitability, as perhaps the least liable to exception, and in using this term, it is necessary to mention that I mean only to express a fact, without the smallest intention of pointing out the nature of that property which distinguishes living from dead matter; and in this we have the illustrious example of Newton, who called that property which causes bodies in certain situations to approach each other, gravitation, without in the least hinting at its nature. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
His withdrawal from the next two Grand Slams is bound to increase speculation that his illustrious career is now over.
Mallet (or Malet, as the old Scandinavian name was now corruptly spelt), one of the illustrious twenty-five "conservators" of Magna Charta. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
HMS Illustrious sent to Lebanon as Britons told: get ready to flee.
A singular variant of douzepers meaning illustrious nobles, knights, or grandees. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The children had a wonderful day out in company of the illustrious cricketer.
'Every one was eager to see the illustrious proscript, who complained of being made a daily show, "like Sancho Panza in his island of Barataria. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
It's up to his physio and doctor to make sure it does not come back because he could have a very long and illustrious career. Times, Sunday Times
There was some peculiarity to the kick, though, as Hartson later intimated that his illustrious partner Henrik Larsson, Celtic's usual penalty taker, had been reluctant to become involved.
Ireland could not keep up the tempo, the blanket hounding of their illustrious opponents. Times, Sunday Times
The most illustrious record labels in the history of jazz have caught on to the fact that in the long run they are better off sticking together.
But I had yet to experience the worst I ever felt in the whole course of my life, and that was on the day of publication; when I went out in the morning, and read my illustrious name placarded in large letters on the street walls! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
Three times league champions, Wolves have dropped there only twice before in their illustrious history. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a hallmark of its illustrious career in broadcasting almost since its inception in the 1920s.
Most noble and illustrious drinkers, and you thrice precious pockified blades (for to you, and none else, do I dedicate my writings), Alcibiades, in that dialogue of Plato's which is entitled, "The Banquet," whilst he was setting forth the praises of his schoolmaster Socrates (without all question the prince of philosophers), amongst other discourses to that purpose said that he resembled the Sileni. Classic French Course in English
Two years ago, she retired from her illustrious tennis career. Christianity Today
Nor his skill in engineering a cast so full of illustrious names. Times, Sunday Times
We can add to the argument of that illustrious author by observing that slavery is not useful to the master because the latter contracts all kinds of vices and habits contrary to the laws of society.
Her name danced in illustrious company; here were dukes and earls and viscounts; a sprinkling of the foreign element: begums, emirs, the nation's guests. Half A Chance
Between his two spells at Elland Road came an illustrious career in Italy, with the Turin giants Juventus.
He has also won countless awards during his illustrious career. The Sun
Much the same treatment was meted out to the illustrious society ladies among whom she networked so assiduously.
They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack.
You have to search hard for clues to her illustrious career. Times, Sunday Times
an illustrious judge
He was an illustrious product of the state school system, dux of Maitland High, winner of a bursary to the University of Sydney where he gained first-class honours in English.
We get to peek behind the scenes of two illustrious gardens tonight. The Sun
The passing of the competitive examinations was the prerequisite to an illustrious career in officialdom.
It is amazing and tragic that a man with such an illustrious track record in struggle of politics should succumb to such baaskap political philosophy akin to Bantustan leaders. JOINT STATEMENT BY ANC MPS, RICHARD NTULI AND BHEKI MNYANDU
It was also turned out to be the apt occasion for the Indian Oil Corporation to recall some of the corner stones in its long illustrious history and the nostalgic moments of yesteryears.
Through his father he was related to the illustrious St. Vincent Ferrer, the great thaumaturgus of the Dominican Order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Dionne Warwick has, over an illustrious four-decade career, established herself as an international musical legend.
Thus, this Vision of Piers Plowman indicates the existence of a popular spirit which had been slowly but steadily increasing -- which sympathized with Henry II. and the priest-trammelling "Constitutions of Clarendon," even while it was ready to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket, the illustrious victim of the quarrel between Henry and his clergy. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
He occupied the illustrious post of Slade Professor of art at Oxford when convocation voted to endow vivisection in the University and install Dr. Burdon Sanderson, the smotherer of dogs, in a laboratory set up for him. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
In company with the other officers on board the ship, I paid my respects to the illustrious exile of Longwood, who received us in his garden, where he was walking about, in a nankeen dress and a large broad-brimmed straw-hat, with General Montholon, Count Las Casas, and his son Burlesques
He switched serenely between keyboard and guitar throughout, just as his illustrious predecessor used to do. Times, Sunday Times
He wants grandchildren, legitimate ones, to carry on the illustrious ducal line.
The more illustrious and affluent dead were interred beneath mausolea in the form of temples or domestic houses, commemorative arches, and columns.
In an illustrious career, Pele scored 1282 goals in 1363 competitive matches, including internationals.
Bruno's illustrious career began with him being crowned the youngest ever British Amateur Champion, aged 18.
Fifty watercolours spanning the illustrious fifty-year career of this prolific printmaker, designer, muralpainter and watercolourist are available for sale, including topographical scenes from India, Italy, Paris and London.
The Principal Secretary on the occasion also felicitated erudite poet and versatile litterateur Mr. Arjun Dev Majboor and illustrious Kashmiri musician and artist Mr. Krishan Langoo. Muslim-Pandit brotherhood, harmony intact:, Young Pandit artists showcase Kashmiri culture
I believe that, like me, you will gain a deeper appreciation for this illustrious artist after reading Moore's sage views.
It is the winter of 1773 and ‘our man’ Diderot fills 66 notebooks with facts, dreams and mystifications for his illustrious benefactress.
When I've written to our illustrious pair of ladies - in a respectful manner, I might add - I get zip, nada, zero.
This psalm is an illustrious prophecy of Messiah the Prince: it is all over gospel, and points at him only, as a bridegroom espousing the church to himself and as a king ruling in it and ruling for it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Cirripedes afford a good instance of this; even the illustrious Cuvier did not perceive that a barnacle was a crustacean: but a glance at the larva shows this in an unmistakable manner. XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Development and Embryology
This illustrious jurist is equally distinguished as an author and explorer. Law and Survival
The illustrious Cuvier did not perceive that a barnacle was a crustacean.
Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing.
And so a sad and bitter end is brought to an illustrious player of immense quality.

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