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  • HMS Illustrious is one of two U.K. aircraft carriers that will be decommissioned.

    A Smaller Defense 2010

  • Farther, I shouldn’t be surprised if cavaliers, who are accustomed to hear themselves called Illustrious, and to be treated like Cardinals, should some day or other want the title of Eminence themselves.

    Chapter XXXVIII 1909

  • Juniper Hall: A Rendevous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894.

    Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney 1904

  • But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • I need at least three releases to do one (or it doesn't really work) and all I've run across lately are Guilty Simpson's "Ode To The Ghetto" (pictured above) and Big Noyd's "Illustrious" (pictured below).

    Cuz It's Friday And I Ain't Got Shit Else To Do! Dart Adams 2008

  • I need at least three releases to do one (or it doesn't really work) and all I've run across lately are Guilty Simpson's "Ode To The Ghetto" (pictured above) and Big Noyd's "Illustrious" (pictured below).

    Archive 2008-01-01 Dart Adams 2008

  • His formal application for leave in January 1854 was met by orders to join the "Illustrious" at Portsmouth.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • His fleet kept to windward of the British, passing fairly near the two leading ships, the "Illustrious" and the "Courageux," who thus underwent a "concentration by defiling," that took the main and mizzen masts out of both, besides killing and wounding many of their people.

    The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

  • Yong-Lo, of the "Illustrious," or Ming, dynasty, commanded the worthy official Kouan-Yu that he should have a bell made of such size that the sound thereof might be heard for one hundred _li_.

    Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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