Sentence examples similar to illustrious century from inspiring English sources

(The Habs, I should add, are having a their absolutely worst season ever, in their, ahem, illustrious century-plus of competition).

The wall separates Manganaro's Hero-Boy -- a renowned, 40-year-old sandwich shop at 492-494 Ninth Avenue, near 37th Street, from the Manganaro Grosseria Italiana (formally known as Manganaro Foods), an illustrious century-old specialty grocery and restaurant at 488 Ninth Avenue.

"Star Trek: Voyager" is in its last season, but a script has been ordered about an illustrious 21st century first lady who is beamed onto the ship, guiding it back in time to prevent destruction of Earth in 2004 by the forces of an evil developer who melts the polar ice cap in his lust to find oil.

Notable early teachers were the illustrious 8th-century Tantric master Padmasambhava and the more orthodox Mahayana teacher Shantirakshita.

Antonio Stradivari made many fewer cellos than violins, and Prieto's, nicknamed the Piatti after an illustrious nineteenth-century cellist, is held to be one of his best.

Clinton is the name that shows up on maps, the one that aims to honor the illustrious 19th-century mayor, DeWitt Clinton.

Judging by this satisfyingly scandalous new memoir, Frank Langella has slept with, been propositioned by, or at least swapped dirty jokes with a breathtaking swath of stars over his illustrious half-century career.

When the burghers of the ultra-respectable London suburb of Bromley offered H G Wells – its most illustrious 19th-century scion after Charles Darwin – the freedom of the town, the firm expectation was that he would graciously accept.

"There is no other like it, it is almost like a living thing," said Ute Wartenberg Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society in Manhattan, which has a less illustrious 18th-century Cincinnati medal in its collection.

John Attridge London Perhaps Janet Brindley's mechanic, electrician and jobbing builder might care to adopt the useful all-purpose designation of "schemer", much like her illustrious 18th-century namesake, James Brindley, the Duke of Bridgewater's engineer.

Ms. Huggins's book fits into no recognizable genre: it is partly a memoir about growing up on Block Island, an evocative re-creation of the lives of an illustrious 19th-century American family, a detective story about the provenance of an object, and a rare glimpse behind the curtain of the politely conniving, overwhelmingly male world of high-end antiques.