Example Sentences

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Though earnest and industrious, I still am unillustrious; No papers empty purses Printing verses Such as mine.

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

Up the staircase leading to the famous dining-hall many illustrious men, as yet unillustrious, had passed with firm and confident step.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

What I do not remember, except from having it very often repeated to me, is what may be considered the only 'clever' thing that I said during an otherwise unillustrious childhood.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund