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In the slim shape of the sandy-haired, softly spoken, tough-as-teak 22-year-old athlete from Durham, England appear to have found the latest in a list of illustrious all-rounders.

"Emotionally and psychologically we feel something has been put right," said Lisa Henson, daughter of the late family patriarch Jim Henson Jim Henson, who invented the Muppets and was also the voice of Kermit the Frog, the most illustrious Muppet of all.

This particular scientific prejudice has a long and illustrious history, going all the way back to Descartes, who flatly declared that animals were automatons, incapable of any awareness or sensitivity.

Gerd Müller, the most illustrious of all German match-winners, also has 14, ahead of Just Fontaine (13) and Pelé (12).

The resurgence comes as Notre Dame celebrates its 125th football season, with tributes to the program's illustrious history all over campus.

Coached by Eddie Jones, who was part of the Springboks' staff during their 2007 triumph, Japan more than matched their illustrious opponents all over the pitch.

The most illustrious of all game-shapers, Pelé, was obliged by his date of birth to out-dazzle Eusébio, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff, who all crossed his time‑path.

The most illustrious of all 19th-century Paris restaurants was the Café Anglais, on the Boulevard des Italiens at the corner of the rue Marivaux, where the chef, Adolphe Dugléré, created classic dishes such as sole Dugléré (filets poached with tomatoes and served with a cream sauce having a fish stock base) and the famous sorrel soup potage Germiny.

Playing with recent assertions that William Shakespeare was a Roman Catholic, Duffy asserts on the strength of a single famous but elusive phrase in one Shakespeare sonnet about "bare ruin'd quiers" that "In the mind and mouth of the most illustrious of all Elizabethans, the Tudor religious revolutions had elicited not even the most equivocal of endorsements".

Rickert here clearly has in mind the most illustrious of all metaphysicians: Plato.

The Highland League champions received a standing ovation at full-time for pushing their illustrious opponents all the way.