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    illustrious


    1. And then moved on to an illustrious


    2. She enjoyed a long and illustrious career in the Secret Guild, working undercover more often than not at great personal risk


    3. He settled down in the dugout to watch the rest of the match next to his less illustrious team mates, just another mucker doing his duty


    4. the dugout to watch the rest of the match next to his less illustrious


    5. He has a history, a list, a little black book chock-full of names from his illustrious past, but like his own parents, as he grows older he finds the subject increasingly difficult to talk about to people younger than himself, especially those he loves


    6. The inning ended in the most dramatic fashion it could have ended; our illustrious batter tried to stretch that hit into an inside the park home run and he was thrown out at home plate for the final out, unbelievable


    7. There are no nations, accordingly, who abound more in families revered and honoured on account of their descent from a long race of great and illustrious ancestors ; because there are no nations among whom wealth is likely to continue longer in the same families


    8. The great shepherd or herdsman, respected on account of his great wealth, and of the great number of those who depend upon him for subsistence, and revered on account of the nobleness of his birth, and of the immemorial antiquity or his illustrious family, has a natural authority over all the inferior shepherds or herdsmen of his horde or clan


    9. This first whaling voyage was the stepping stone for Jon to become a master mariner and illustrious skipper


    10. To the Most Gracious and Illustrious Sovereign,

    11. He lamented that Alexander accomplished in thirty years more than he foresaw for his own military life, illustrious as it was


    12. I would be honored to be related to him and his illustrious family by marriage


    13. I have yet to meet your illustrious father


    14. It was not long before the death of your illustrious grandfather that I found myself walking along the shores of Lake Texcoco considering my lack of a wife


    15. The Khan’s illustrious brother is in charge of the campaign, but he is already in Cuzco


    16. 1 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue,


    17. So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a tragedy


    18. Illustrious times already past of art and history filled


    19. When illustrious could have been in large cities dwelling


    20. Of all the leaders of the Herodian dynasty, he alone in all his strivings gave primacy to the Jewish nation and its future, and became the most illustrious Jewish politician of his generation

    21. In fact, he is described as “The most illustrious figure in Judaism in the post-Talmudic era, and one of the greatest of all time


    22. Friday, former president of The University of North Carolina, hailed his contribution: “Among North Carolina’s illustrious achievers during this half century, none stands taller than Roy Park


    23. 9 You O King when you created the illimitable and measureless Earth did choose out this city you did make this place sacred to your name albeit you need nothing you did glorify it with your illustrious presence after constructing it to the glory of your great and honourable name


    24. 1 And Eleazar an illustrious priest of the country who had attained to length of days and whose life had been adorned with virtue caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God and prayed so 2 O king mighty in power most high Almighty God who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy 3 look on the seed of Abraham on the children of the sanctified Jacob your sanctified inheritance O Father now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land


    25. Gunvalson was associated in his 21-year career had illustrious histories


    26. without sin, should become illustrious through


    27. Marie have chronicled illustrious histories


    28. It had all seemed to easy, but he certainly didn’t envy his men and machines the ordeal of changing the illustrious Senator into a Primagnon


    29. “We only follow your Master Plan, O Illustrious One,” Doubt said ingratingly


    30. Based on these challenges and its illustrious

    31. For me, in all my illustrious educational splendor, to sit back and not allow the black veil to be cast aside from that house, to not convey a hint to the masses as to the inexplicable horrors of which I have seen, would be hypocritical and an injustice to the all of us


    32. 2 John took the same life vows that had been administered to his illustrious predecessors, Samson and the prophet Samuel


    33. Elijah was the first of the teachers of Israel to be regarded as a prophet, and John truly believed that he was to be the last of this long and illustrious line of the messengers of heaven


    34. And the day her illustrious husband yielded up his life, she was thrown to the wild beasts in the arena at Rome


    35. The company that he works for is an Auditing and Private Investigation Bureau called “The Circle” – Hamilton being their Accountancy and Tax specialist – he is evidently a member of the illustrious Collett Family…his mother is a 50% shareholder of “The Collett Corporation”…


    36. After Pentecost she remained with her illustrious husband, accompanying him on all of his missionary tours; and on the day Peter was crucified in Rome, she was fed to the wild beasts in the arena


    37. Karl Pribram (1) has had a long and illustrious career


    38. Antoninus, the illustrious archbishop of Florence, relates that a pious gentleman and a great friend of the Dominican convent in which the saint resided, died


    39. Was he displaying the same single-mindedness and toughness that characterized his noted forebears or was he a self-serving shadow of these time magnified ancestors? What would his namesake, great Granddad Can Martin say? What‘s the difference the sweating rancher rationalized, no one would know what he did tonight much less his illustrious ancestors


    40. In crises such as those in Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu, Laos, and Vietnam, the men of the “Fighting Hannah” were ready, proving themselves worthy guardians of the proud tradition begun by the illustrious Massachusetts patriot who gave the ship her name

    41. Some of these illustrious scholars had been actually dragged out of bed by troopers with very strict orders


    42. Evidently he had studied cooking at the Sorbonne between the wars, which would explain his attitude and portentousness; he was probably well bred and respected by his peers for his powerful position in this illustrious resort but still outside the elite social circle of the city


    43. literal slaves to use at their illustrious home mansion estates


    44. From that illustrious beginning, the SAS further evolved, and was transformed into a very


    45. Here you and those children of the illustrious star, shall


    46. marble steps of that most illustrious mansion on high


    47. years, and he’d begun his illustrious career there at only twenty-one


    48. of the illustrious Superlative Grand!


    49. that my laboring efforts in thy illustrious service


    50. Within it's illustrious center shall stand





































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    Synonyms for "illustrious"

    illustrious celebrated famed famous far-famed notable noted renowned brilliant eminent distinguished glorious

    "illustrious" definitions

    widely known and esteemed


    having or conferring glory