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Sentence Examples As humble privates and illustrious generals, Scottish soldiers marched and fought across the globe, in the service of the British Empire. The fair-weather friends have evidently evaporated into thin air, effectively abandoning him and vilifying his illustrious name. He joins the illustrious ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap. Between his two spells at Elland Road came an illustrious career in Italy, with the Turin giants Juventus. The harshness of the Belfast twang has dissipated little during an illustrious football career away from his homeland. Before we left he showed me the wrought iron gates which bore the names of Glasgow's most illustrious graduates. Granted, with the roll call of the most illustrious pieces of golf real estate on their books they've already got a bit of a head start. Such films inevitably entailed working with some illustrious and highly opinionated presenters and performers. His withdrawal from the next two Grand Slams is bound to increase speculation that his illustrious career is now over. They totally outplayed their illustrious opponents and were easy and deserving winners. This is exactly how evil overlords laugh and I know how to spell it due to my illustrious television writing career. The late Aberdonian artist Ian Fleming had a long and illustrious career at Gray's School of Art. 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. For years the former mill town has been in the shadow of its more illustrious neighbours Leeds and Manchester with little or no claim to fame. Scotland's exporting success in eastern Europe has not been exactly illustrious in recent years. Being a military tribune, or chiliarch, he was illustrious in battle and highly honoured for his courage. And at the interval they were holding their more illustrious opponents as they went into the break level. Aside from your illustrious career as an actor, how many plays have you written? Its title is Yanks and the script is by Colin Welland, one of Britain's most illustrious dramatists. Despite two illustrious parents, the company has been severely constricted for cash. Show More Sentences Dionne Warwick has, over an illustrious four-decade career, established herself as an international musical legend. He wants grandchildren, legitimate ones, to carry on the illustrious ducal line. This would be a lamentable end for such an illustrious name and would bring no pleasure to anyone in Scotland. 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. For Yorke, who is now 36 years old, it was a final fling for both him and his illustrious friend. He still possesses the same hunger and childlike love of the game that has defined him throughout his illustrious career. There are many similarities in the short but illustrious careers of Best and John, now the firmest of friends. I believe that, like me, you will gain a deeper appreciation for this illustrious artist after reading Moore's sage views. They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack. But it is not just his family's illustrious past which concerns the present Lord Lansdowne. In many Tanzanian ethnic groups, heroes are illustrious ancestors who distinguished themselves by their valor, intelligence, or generosity. In an illustrious career, Pele scored 1282 goals in 1363 competitive matches, including internationals. 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. This production boasts an illustrious cast and incorporates physical theatre, song and dance. He will pull down the curtain on his illustrious career on Sunday, May 20-and then make his comeback three weeks later. As it happens, Cliff's illustrious career goes back a long way further than that. Our mutual respect is born of the natural ties between mariners and a long and illustrious shared history. In these instances, it is rare for the more illustrious team not to make amends for their sloppiness second time around. The gutsy left-arm seamer showed his skills with the bat on a track where his more illustrious team-mates were dismissed cheaply. He was a very consistent performer and rarely had a bad match in his long and illustrious career. Show More Sentences The hotel with the illustrious past and the four-star deluxe rating must wait a little longer for a fifth star. He also expressed pleasure to be following in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor Charles Darwin. Much the same treatment was meted out to the illustrious society ladies among whom she networked so assiduously. The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments. Genre films they no doubt were, but as was true with the illustrious star in America, they brought out the best in him. Mr Jones has enjoyed an illustrious acting career appearing on Broadway and the West End. For any aspiring female boxers, Trinity term could be the beginning of an illustrious career. The courses are not inexpensive, as the illustrious name of the event hotel might indicate. Her most illustrious parts were the title roles of Giselle, La Sylphide, and Esmeralda. And so a sad and bitter end is brought to an illustrious player of immense quality. The children had a wonderful day out in company of the illustrious cricketer. After the Games, he followed his illustrious team-mates into the NBA, but in the 14 years since, he has performed unimpressively in the main. 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. Terman and his assistant relied on biographical accounts of illustrious individuals to compute the scores. Neither he nor his illustrious brother seem out of the woods yet. The savvy forger with Pappy empties to fill might get his hands on some Old Weller and present it as its more illustrious cousin. 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. Pioneer rewrote the record books by becoming the first girls' team in Michigan's illustrious swimming history to win the prestigious national title. The other two look backwards over porn's not so illustrious past. And I realized that a man had to be pretty sure of himself, because she was quite an illustrious person. Show More Sentences In The House of Rothschild, I identified at least three members of that illustrious financial dynasty as gay. Sunday's event would have been much better served had its illustrious panel reckoned honestly with this question. The more illustrious and affluent dead were interred beneath mausolea in the form of temples or domestic houses, commemorative arches, and columns. A path of undoubtable success awaits Sylvana, with Phantom of the Opera being an exciting and notable beginning to her illustrious Cape Town career. And how can you not love a guy who actually spends a good portion of his time talking about that luscious Halloween treat that is candy corn and its rich, illustrious history? There aren't many firms that can claim quite such an illustrious history. Marienbad and music are synonymous, not only because of its illustrious musical visitors, but the summer season is chock-a-block with musical events. It led to an autumn defensive personnel nightmare that was further undermined by a collection of schoolboy howlers that embarrassed an illustrious unit. Yet, ever since became a Test opener, he has scored a hundred in every series except in New Zealand, a feat not achieved by any of his illustrious colleagues. There was no excuse for that, considering all their illustrious talent. He will not want to end an illustrious career by walking the plank. He's also not afraid to frame illustrious works of art with more simple and modest frames, as he did with one client's collections of Impressionist paintings. The manufactured praise accompanying Grohl, supplied by a corps of pro fuglemen who lead and escort the illustrious on his vanity venture, is grand. 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. 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 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. 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. However, none had more impact than Timur, who ushered in the region's most illustrious period. You are the honor and ornament of the orb and the most illustrious portion of the Earth. Regarding their own civilisation as superior, the Lombards did indeed provide the environment for the illustrious Schola Medica Salernitana. Show More Sentences In his short, illustrious career Percy Jones had reached the pinnacle of his sport and established himself as one of Wales' finest ever boxers. His son, Thomas Chaucer, had an illustrious career, as chief butler to four kings, envoy to France, and Speaker of the House of Commons. During his illustrious career, he has commanded a Transport Squadron, a Flying Wing and an Operational Air Base. He knew that the game of football would always kick the most illustrious of its practitioners in the goolies. On one hand it derides Madoc's time, which is critically compared to the illustrious Arthurian age. But Alain de Royer-Dupre is not sending over Sabana Perdida just as a travelling companion for some more illustrious stablemates. The long-term favourite is bidding to follow in the hoofprints of illustrious Coolmore duo Galileo and High Chapparal. The city of Safed had a number of mikvahs, and there was one, named after the illustrious Rabbi Isaac Luria, which was reserved for men. The beach is backed by Marram grass and hosts an illustrious range of wildflowers, including grass of Parnassus and early purple orchid. Darrow was many things in his illustrious life lived in the headlines. A great value set of the first five albums that launched Waits' illustrious career and defined his distinctly rogueish barhopping character. The illustrious Bruce and others imagine, that in the zimb of Abyssinia they recognize the fly plague which afflicted the Egyptians. Despite her illustrious admirers, her stature as a serious poet gradually declined, partly due to her success in the literary marketplace. Nevertheless, it tends to be overshadowed by its more illustrious neighbours in the Eastern Fells, Helvellyn and Fairfield. When David returned, he was determined to live up to the memory of his illustrious father. Gregory's paternal grandmother, Leocadia, descended from Vettius Epagatus, the illustrious martyr of Lyons. Like her illustrious sibling, Chorist, Rock Choir is trained by William Haggas and he has taken a patient approach with what is a progressive filly. During the battle, Henry ordered that the French prisoners taken during the battle be put to death, including some of the most illustrious who could be used for ransom. Culver boasts an illustrious career as a bookmaker, oddsmaker and bettor. Sally Todd of puppeteers Indefinite Articles, creators of the puppets who'll be sharing the stage with an illustrious cast of Opera North singers, reveals more. Show More Sentences The first quarter saw the Delhi girls take the match to their more illustrious opponents but it wasn't a sign of the way the match would pan out in the later stages. An illustrious panel of judges including beauty experts from Aussie and high profile New York-based beauty PR firm Lippe Taylor will select ten finalists. The annual competition, which sees club captains past and present vying for the illustrious Captains' Quaich trophy, saw six former captains taking part this year. The history of Northampton Saints is one filled with illustrious names. Examples from Classical Literature He desires to magnify, not to minify, the importance of these illustrious men. It was not of the least use to me that I knew he was not the illustrious general, but simply a mountebank. The illustrious astronomer saw on one occasion this object pass over a star cluster. As you know, he is of a Breton family, one of the most illustrious of the province. In the school for deficients I had made and applied these insets in the same form used by my illustrious predecessors. Carme was a friend of the illustrious Villeroux, famed partly as Mirabeaus cook, but chiefly for his courage and adventures. Of this I informed my illustrious friend, in characteristical warm terms, in a letter dated the 30th of September, from Leeds. They might have been a brace of Irish Members for all their intimidatory effect on my illustrious companion. Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious jo. It is to her that we owe the textus receptus of the Essais of the illustrious litterateur. Reassured as to her husband, she wept for the first five victims of the 9th Thermidor, those illustrious and virtuous citizens. Pasdeloup has splendidly welcomed the illustrious guest that he endeavours to introduce and to naturalize in France. He was at this time a zealous upholder of the Neptunian theory of his illustrious master. Nor are these Names by any Means more illustrious, than those we meet with in the colloquium. Stanislaus, bishop of Cracow, was descended from an illustrious Polish family. Sometimes there was also a fourth name, called the agnomen, added from some illustrious action, or remarkable event. When the illustrious Sankara slew Tripura, even this was the weapon which he shot and by which many mighty Asuras were consumed. Following that illustrious example, Giacomo shall be anglified into Jackeymo. All the other statues and drawings of your illustrious kinsman are at your disposal. He tapped for the coda with the touch of a king knighting an illustrious subject. Show More Sentences In another part of this chamber is buried Eleazar, son of the illustrious Simeon. Peter the Great of Russia was here instructed in the equestrian art, and many other illustrious men are on its list of scholars. Patrick blessed them, and said that the children they would bear to extern tribes would be illustrious. Madame had never seen him so exasperated, and this illustrious nobleman was advised to feign a necessity for visiting his estates. Ascham often refers to his illustrious pupil in claiming merit for his system. I have not been uninfluenced by the lessons of wisdom I gained in your illustrious land. Sternhold and Hopkins, of whom such honourable mention has been made above, were illustrious as doggrel writers. She came of illustrious line, did Sofia, scant-haired and ungracious as she now was. Aurelius, my illustrious friend, is in the greatest anxiety. But the most sanguine stickler for Arianism is the illustrious Dr. Clark. She was extremely fond of her ci-devant lodger, the illustrious Istar. I hope it is deserving the acceptance of the illustrious Caeri. Around the turn of the century Sebastien Leger joined that illustrious list of countrymen. Joseph afterward was an illustrious specimen of this disposition. Of these one of the first and most illustrious was Francis Xavier. Our condition here was not much better than that of the illustrious captives whom we left behind. The aged and illustrious man had done what the poor boy refused to do. Was it anxiety caused by the indisposition of his illustrious client? In my humble opinion this is yet another chef d'oeuvre in the long and illustrious canon of Irish literature. To paint such pictures, one must have the pen of the most illustrious of our poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. Show More Sentences And the other Thetis, the illustrious daughter of wise-counseling Nereus. The Marquette family had been illustrious in France from time immemorial. You will remind me of the experiment of that illustrious philosopher who measured the velocity of a great storm by a flight of small feathers. A single dish of boiled fish, set before the two illustrious guests, was more tempting to hungry stomachs than to delicate palates. By degrees, the observer came to feel nearly as much interest in this chicken of illustrious race as the mother-hen did. He had been afraid that he could not save his illustrious employers from the anger of an excited peasantry. Edmund Burke, an illustrious orator, statesman, and philanthropist. The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain. If I bore my name you would have heard one of the most illustrious names of England. No doubt the host knew what illustrious visitor was expected, and had consequently sent intruders out of the way. The illustrious Tamaahmaah, as we have shown on a former occasion, was a shrewd bargainer, and in the present instance proved himself an experienced wrecker. Mazarin turned the lock of a double door, on the threshold of which they found Athos ready to receive his illustrious guests according to the notice Comminges had given him. 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? Francis Ford dominates the book as the establisher of the family business and the senior member whose long and illustrious history of films is documented. Far from the crimes and the mysteries of the great city, the illustrious thief-taker was placidly living out the last Sybarite years of his life, smothered in roses! But all desolate and unpeopled as it was, it was illustrious ground. They reminded him of the illustrious operatic queens of his early days, whose celebrity was European during a good third of the eighteenth century. The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities. Numerous toasts were offered and quaffed, in the wines of France, to the celebrated travellers who had made their names illustrious by their explorations of African territory. The expression of conditions of existence, so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier, is fully embraced by the principle of natural selection. Show More Sentences It is indeed wonderful to finally see Asian teams outthink and outfight more illustrious footballing nations at the highest level,'' the statement read. Even the illustrious Cloudy Bay Pelorus, a truly elegant sparkling wine, or Green Point Australian are about pounds 15, the opening price of most Champagne from known houses. 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