illustrious

• The only one that is at all material relates to the way you mention Dr. Young--not that I object to the word illustrious," or as applied to him. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• This caused a split in the Democratic vote, and Mr. Lincoln was elected on a minority of the total vote cast Stephen A. Douglass however, like Webster and Clay, needed not the honor of occupying the presidential chair to make his name illustrious. —  Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
• It was originally constructed in 1548, by the celebrated engineer, Louis de Foix, whose works at Bayonne have rendered his name illustrious. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• That, I say, which made him illustrious was the having made himself worthy to fulfil the promise of that poet who says Fortunati ambo, si quid mea carmina possunt Nulla dies nunquam memori vos eximet aevo Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque pater romanus habebit MAR. —  The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem
• As the representative of the Ashland District, he was the successor of Clay, Crittenden, Marshall, Breckenridge, Beck--illustrious names in the history of the State and of the nation. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

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