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Sentences ending with illustrious

It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. [7]
In Great Britain, the Tractors were not less honored than in America, by the learned and the illustrious. [6]
To be a saloon-keeper and kill a man was to be illustrious. [5]
The vow to sacrifice her beautiful hair to Aphrodite if her husband returned uninjured from the Syrian war had rendered her name illustrious. [10]
No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious. [5]

Short sentences using illustrious

By The Illustrious Kean! [5]
But now, illustrious Imperator! [10]
As the illustrious Hunter (20. [1]

More example sentences with the word illustrious in them

Whatever may happen, your illustrious life cannot be in danger! [10]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
Nikola Tesla, the world-wide illustrious electrician; see article about him in Jan. or Feb. Century. [5]
They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. [5]
Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
Of the first, wine is the illustrious and immortal example. [6]
Besides, your recovery will progress without my professional aid; and, moreover, I shall leave Ratisbon with my illustrious master in a few days. [10]
Those illustrious adventurers who sailed in her landed on the Jersey flats, preferring a marshy ground, where they could drive piles and construct dykes. [4]
Consider the ladder which he has climbed, the illustrious vocations he has served--and vocations is the right word; he has in all those vocations acquitted himself with high credit and honor to his country and to the mother that bore him. [5]
Too many that were placed there as luminaries have become conspicuous by their obscurity in the midst of that illustrious company. [6]
Some years later we have the illustrious John Morgan Twain. [5]
And too often we have been glad when it was time to go home and be distressed no more about illustrious localities. [5]
The year 1709 was made ponderous and illustrious in English biography by his birth. [6]
Once when he was bunching the most illustrious kings and conquerors and poets and prophets and pirates and beggars together--just a brick-pile--I was shamed into putting in a word for man, and asked him why he made so much difference between men and himself. [5]
Which was well; war being their proper trade, for they were grandsons of that illustrious fighter Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France in earlier days. [5]
He had not visited the penitentiary, but he had sent a copy of the illustrious letter to the chaplain of that institution, and accompanied it with--apparently inquiries. [5]
Then we have tried for governor an illustrious Rough Rider, and we liked him so much in that great office that now we have made him Vice-President--not in order that that office shall give him distinction, but that he may confer distinction upon that office. [5]
Westminster Abbey is too crowded with monuments to the illustrious dead and those who have been considered so in their day to produce any other than a confused impression. [6]
It is necessary to show in a brief glance what had been going on in Europe during the latter part of that century, the first quarter of which had been made illustrious in the history of medical science by the discovery of the circulation. [3]
He was said to share everything with these distinguished companions, and to be himself the handsomest and most attractive of the illustrious trio. [10]
Nothing comes amiss to me--cash or credit; but, seriously, I do feel that Stanley is the chief man and an illustrious one, and I do applaud him with all my heart. [5]
If one wishes to know the magic of names, let him visit the places made memorable by the lives of the illustrious men of the past in the Old World. [6]
I am proud to know that I lose my reason as immediately in the presence of a rare jug with an illustrious mark on the bottom of it, as if I had just emptied that jug. [5]
New Orleans intended to fittingly celebrate, this present year, the bicentennial anniversary of this illustrious event; but when the time came, all her energies and surplus money were required in other directions, for the flood was upon the land then, making havoc and devastation everywhere. [5]
I would go to America, and see, and learn, and return to the Campagna and stand before my countrymen an illustrious discoverer. [5]
Only a brief time for consideration remained; for, even as she bowed her head on the bosom of her friend, the "introducer" entered the room, crying, "Her illustrious Majesty will expect those whom she summoned in a few minutes! [10]
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. [5]
Every one of them except one--the most famous, the most renowned--by far the most illustrious of them all--Shakespeare! [5]
In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
How sublime is their position, and how over-topping, how sky-reaching, how supreme--the two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! [5]
The favour which the most illustrious of mortals showed her they imputed to her as a crime. [10]
On one of the latter days of that three-weeks session the gowned scholars and professors made one grand assault all along the line, fairly overwhelming Joan with objections and arguments culled from the writings of every ancient and illustrious authority of the Roman Church. [5]
As soon as the illustrious Naashon had pressed one of the oldest of these hapless men like a brother to his heart, the other liberated bondsmen had flung themselves into the shepherds' arms and thus, still shouting: "They are coming! [10]
The elder was the greatest sage and expounder of the law--the son the most illustrious astronomer and the most skilled interpreter of the mystical significance of the position of the heavenly bodies, among the Hebrews. [10]
I have noticed that the Bible, with that plain, blunt honesty which is such a conspicuous characteristic of the Scriptures, is always particular to never refer to even the illustrious mother of all mankind as a "lady," but speaks of her as a woman. [5]
His birthplace and that of our other illustrious Bostonian, Benjamin Franklin, were within a kite-string's distance of each other. [6]
General Jackson still swore "by the Eternal," and his illustrious military successor of a more recent period seems, by his own showing, to have been able to sudden impulses of excitement. [6]
The words expressed steadfast self-respect and pride in his illustrious ancestry. [10]
The illustrious Jenner states that in Wiltshire one of a pair was daily shot no less than seven times successively, "but all to no purpose, for the remaining magpie soon found another mate"; and the last pair reared their young. [1]
The old national spirit, which made the Greeks omnipotent against the millions of Darius and Xerxes, shall live again, and we will keep the Barbarians at a distance as a Patrician forbids his inferiors to count themselves as belonging to his illustrious house. [10]
But the cook soon forgot the old man's ill-humor; he had to clear his subordinates out of the way as quickly as possible and prepare for his illustrious visitor. [10]
Now, to introduce so illustrious a name as Henry M. Stanley by any detail of what the man has done is clear aside from my purpose; that would be stretching the unnecessary to an unconscionable degree. [5]
The one chosen shall be illustrious, all of us shall be rich. [5]
They made final report that Joan's case was beyond their powers, and recommended that it be put into the hands of the learned and illustrious doctors of the University of Poitiers. [5]
The old man received the prince with much affection, and asked: "What brings my illustrious son to the poor servant of the Deity? [10]
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. [5]
It was a prodigious power, an illustrious power; he resolved to discover its secret. [5]
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. [5]
The prince and princess, the ladies of the court, and the prelates and friars who were present, did the same; and the effect of the prayers of these illustrious and saintly persons was immediately apparent. [4]
The three illustrious philosophers just referred to agree in attributing the general movements of the universe to the immediate Divine action. [3]
Many minutes had passed since the patriarch had left him; Orion had allowed his illustrious guest to depart unescorted, and this could not fail to excite surprise. [10]
That patriarch of our American literature, the illustrious historian of his country, is still with us, his birth dating in 1800. [6]
An illustrious scholar once told me, that, in the first lecture he ever delivered, he spoke but half his allotted time, and felt as if he had told all he knew. [6]
As the guest of the most hospitable city on earth, their illustrious sovereign had a right to expect from every Alexandrian the most ardent endeavors to make his stay here delightful. [10]
The illustrious dogs of Constantinople barked their under jaws off, and even then failed to do us justice. [5]
Her physiognomy is not distinguished; nez camus, as a Frenchman would say; no illustrious steeple, no imposing tower; the water-edge of the town looking bedraggled, like the flounce of a vulgar rich woman's dress that trails on the sidewalk. [6]
Yet was it not difficult to understand how she could even think of the poor fellow at all while hastening to the illustrious sovereign whose heart was hers, and who had taught her with what impetuous power true love seizes upon the soul. [10]
He bore a no less illustrious name than that of the writer of these chronicles. [9]
The illustrious host moved about from place to place, and helped to destroy the provisions and keep the conversation lively, and the Grand Duchess talked with the verandah parties and such as had satisfied their appetites and straggled out from the reception room. [5]
Among the remedies most valued by this illustrious physician is that mentioned in the following sentence: "'Laudo magnopere equitationes in aere rusticano factas singulis diebus, hord potissimum matutina, quibus equitationibus morbos chronicos pene incurabiles protanus eliminavi. [6]
It is a mistake for a person with an unregulated imagination to go and look at an illustrious world's wonder. [5]
And then a mere chirping of crickets at the tomb of such illustrious dead, followed by the disorderly squalling of an immense mob--it had nearly cracked her ears! [10]
The illustrious Haller mentions Rush's inaugural thesis in his "Bibliotheca Anatomica;" and this same Haller, brought so close to us, tells us he remembers Ruysch, then an old man, and used to carry letters between him and Boerhaave. [3]
I see around me captains of all the illustrious industries, most distinguished men; there are more than fifty here, and I believe I know thirty-nine of them well. [5]
Though 'the beautiful Mary,' in her superabundant mercy, quietly endured the affront offered, our Lord himself punished it, for he inspired the illustrious Duke of Bavaria to issue an edict which forbids his subjects to trade with Ratisbon. [10]
Then, in a manner as respectful as if welcoming an illustrious guest, he invited me to take my place opposite to him, that he might form a goddess after my model. [10]
Had he not made preparations of the very coleoptera the Scarabee studied so exclusively,--preparations which the illustrious Swammerdam would not have been ashamed of, and dissected a melolontha as exquisitely as Strauss Durckheim himself ever did it? [6]
I repeat, sir, look at the illustrious names of history. [5]
Yesterday she was less than nobody to the newest recruit--to-day her command was law to La Hire, Saintrailles, the Bastard of Orleans, and all those others, veterans of old renown, illustrious masters of the trade of war. [5]
At a somewhat later period, when the extremities are developed, "the feet of lizards and mammals," as the illustrious Von Baer remarks, "the wings and feet of birds, no less than the hands and feet of man, all arise from the same fundamental form. [1]
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! [5]
The emperor said it was--but charitably advised him to go and hunt hares and not endanger so precious a life as his in an attempt which had brought death to so many of the world's most illustrious heroes. [5]
I believe that it is peculiarly appropriate that I should be allowed the privilege of joining my voice with the general voice of St. Louis and Missouri in welcoming to the Mississippi Valley and this part of the continent these illustrious visitors from France. [5]
Beyond a somewhat intimate knowledge of Spanish history and a profound veneration for its great names and illustrious deeds, I feel that I possess no merit that should peculiarly recommend me to this royal distinction. [5]
In some few instances Andreas could satisfy her curiosity, for he had spent some months at Antioch on a matter of business, and had there come to know by sight some of Caesar's most illustrious companions. [10]
George I., an infant of eighteen, and a scraggy nest of foreign office holders, sit in the places of Themistocles, Pericles, and the illustrious scholars and generals of the Golden Age of Greece. [5]
He reminded himself indignantly that he was not only the ruler of many nations, but the head of perhaps the most illustrious family on earth. [10]
He would bear in mind the commission given him by the daughter of the illustrious Thomas. [10]
They were just illustrious official brigands, the whole party; and by long habits of lawlessness they had lost all acquaintanceship with obedience, if they had ever had any. [5]
Where was an illustrious name to be borrowed? [5]
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. [5]
There sat the illustrious Maximilian, still clapping his hands. [10]
After serving his illustrious master faithfully for half a century, and enjoying throughout his long term his high regard and confidence, it became his sorrowful duty at last to lay that beloved master to rest in his peaceful grave by the Potomac. [5]
He was an illustrious man, but he held two very odd opinions; that tar water was everything, and that the whole material universe was nothing. [6]
Beaumonte.--'Tis not insensible, illustrious madam; but mousing owls and bats of low degree may not aspire to bliss so whelming and ecstatic as is found in ye downy nests of birdes of Paradise. [5]
Samaritan nature is human nature, and human nature remembers contact with the illustrious, always. [5]
As she clasped his hand, Andreas came up, bowed gravely, and asked whether it would be overbold in him, as a faithful retainer of the maiden's family, to crave a favor, in her name, of Caesar's illustrious and familiar friend. [10]
It was in his father's house, in his own library, looking on the garden-house and garden,--honored father and illustrious son,--alas! [6]
And far below her, through the mist, she beheld the burying-ground of Boston's illustrious dead which her cabman had pointed out to her as he passed. [9]
Consequently his brethren held him in the sort of awe in which illustrious survivors of a bygone age are always held by their associates. [5]
I hope I have not hurt your feelings, if you happen to be a High and Mighty Grand Functionary in any illustrious Fraternity. [6]
Why the people gave him a towering, illustrious position, a grand, imposing position. [5]
But Ann knew full well how truly I honored the reverend and illustrious uncle, and for sure if he had brought her good tidings she would forthwith have sent me word, or have come to me herself. [10]
To those who followed his lead in public affairs, it more appropriately belongs to pronounce his eulogy and pay specific honors to the memory of the illustrious dead. [7]
Instead of an exiled adventurer I found him a stalwart gentleman, in every respect illustrious and honored, whose commanding eye showed that he was wont to be obeyed, albeit his voice and mien revealed a compassionate and friendly soul. [10]
What have I done that I have not the license of Henry Clay's illustrious example here in doing? [7]
Readers of Homer do not want to be reminded that _hippodamoio_, horse-subduer, is the genitive of an epithet applied as a chief honor to the most illustrious heroes. [6]
Beside these were dishes of roast meats, fish, and cakes for the illustrious guests. [10]
He says he discovered a caricature of your illustrious person in the guise of a soldier. [10]
Nothing could save Dion, who had audaciously attacked the illustrious son of their beloved Queen, from the rage of the populace. [10]

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