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  • A pie chart showing expense by category would be illustrative.
    illustrative = serving to help explain or demonstrate something
  • This diagram illustrates the relationships I've mentioned.
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • The example illustrates the belief.
    illustrates = makes clear
  • Right or wrong, Louie's suspicions illustrated how sensitive he was to the idea that he was unworthy of Cynthia.   (source)
    illustrated = helped make clear
  • He ground his teeth again and told a story to illustrate his point.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • This sentence clearly illustrates that she's not exactly what you'd call modest!   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • My father often spoke of the kindness of Akbar Khan and Nasir Pacha to illustrate that if you help someone in need you might also receive unexpected aid.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • I always illustrate my lecture with a lot of technical examples.   (source)
  • ...and is whipped for being hard to please! I have an abundance of such illustrations of the same principle, drawn from my own observation, but think the cases I have cited sufficient.   (source)
    illustrations = stories to clarify or demonstrate
  • "We're talkin' humongous rattraps." Garrett held his hands a foot apart to illustrate.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
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  • That was from a book by Sir Henry Layard, who'd discovered the statues in the ruins of Nineveh and had them shipped to England; they were said to be illustrations of the angels described in the Book of Ezekiel.   (source)
    illustrations = things that help clarify or demonstrate
  • ...a literary composition intended to prove some particular point or illustrate a particular subject,   (source)
    illustrate = make clear
  • For some time, he said, he had been experiencing a tremor of the hands consistent with the onset of palsy. ... By way of illustration, he held his right hand over the table where it trembled like a leaf.   (source)
    illustration = something that helps demonstrate
  • Each to him was a triumph of logic and mechanics, and nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.   (source)
    illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
  • Here is a famous story called The Monty Hall Problem which I have included in this book because it illustrates what I mean.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • "It sort of floated toward me," said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, "right to my chest, and then — it just went straight through."   (source)
    illustrating = demonstrating
  • The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the "modern" plane crash that it is studied in flight schools.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • St. Clair pronounces it die-rections and illustrates his point by poking his fingers up around his head like antlers.   (source)
  • Then happily he recalled another book that had been sent to his sister, Sarah, from England, with a small picture to illustrate each letter.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • To illustrate this, Korn points to the Spanish flu pandemic.   (source)
  • …cheery dull world of good citizenship, where persons of different ethnicities all participated happily in their communities and inner-city kids stood around their housing project with a watering can, caring for a potted tree with branches illustrating the different branches of government, Boris had drawn daggers with his name on them, roses and hearts surrounding Kotku's initials, and a set of spying eyes, peeping slyly to one side, above a partially filled out sample test: Why does…   (source)
    illustrating = helping make clear
  • What Saphira just did illustrates my earlier point: there is much you don't know.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • I held up my two hands to illustrate the total and complete lack of gifts I had brought for the African children.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • The pictures that illustrate the words.   (source)
  • Before the game he showed Michael tapes of the previous year's game, to illustrate the nature of the problem.   (source)
  • One unforgettable incident with the electric' fence illustrates his persistence.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • The story, too, tends to illustrate the end of the century.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • But even the others bear signs illustrating the way life marks all who pass through it.   (source)
    illustrating = helping make clear
  • Are you trying to illustrate a principle of randomness, Doug Swieteck?   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • As if to illustrate my point, Connor and Paolo emerged from the darkness at the other end of the corridor.   (source)
  • Countless other suburban communities, in every part of the country, could have been used to illustrate the same points.   (source)
  • The case will be used next week for Peer Review, a monthly video conference watched by all the facilities during which mistakes by physicians, who remain anonymous, are used to illustrate learning points.   (source)
  • "I mention the horned Moses," Bellamy now said, "to illustrate how a single word, misunderstood, can rewrite history."   (source)
  • Sarayu continued, "Perhaps the best way you can understand is for me to give you a quick illustration."   (source)
    illustration = example (to help clarify or demonstrate)
  • Then, as if to illustrate her point, one such message comes through the main port in the classroom.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • He gestured vaguely to illustrate his points.   (source)
  • I was just trying to illustrate the benefits of the bed you don't seem to like.   (source)
  • For one thing, a pastor's wife has to put up with being used as a sermon illustration a lot.   (source)
    illustration = example (to help clarify or demonstrate)
  • Shall I tell you a little story to illustrate this?   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • To illustrate his point, he'd show a slide of assembled photographs, in which, for instance, Fidel Castro appeared alongside the Pope, Bill Gates, and the pop singer Britney Spears.   (source)
  • I'm looking for something that hasn't been used before that might illustrate that day—of Harriet and her friends.   (source)
  • Amar presses his palms together and twists them back and forth, to illustrate.   (source)
  • He held his thumb and forefinger apart just a fraction of an inch, for illustration.   (source)
    illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
  • At that moment he picked up a Yellow Pages from the stage and, to illustrate what the bullies did to him and his anger problem, ripped the book clean in half, tossing the two pieces over his shoulders.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • The Jesuit's index finger, which was already raised to illustrate additional tortures, remained suspended like a lightning rod above his head.   (source)
  • The planes were decorated with flamboyant squadron emblems illustrating such laudable ideals as Courage, Might, Justice, Truth, Liberty, Love, Honor and Patriotism that were painted out at once by Milo's mechanics with a double coat of flat white and replaced in garish purple with the stenciled name M & M ENTERPRISES, FINE FRUITS AND PRODUCE.   (source)
    illustrating = helping to make clear
  • Though Donald was busy doing what many people say they'd like to do (but never get around to), he still allowed himself and his family to illustrate how fragile a dialogue of best intentions can be.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • We all waited patiently for father's story to develop, because we knew he had a way of telling stories that very clearly illustrated the point he wanted to make.   (source)
    illustrated = helped make clear
  • Kennedy vigorously attacked the Eisenhower administration, using the situation in Cuba to illustrate its weakness against communism.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • Wary of illustrating the man's point, he slowly willed himself to stillness.   (source)
    illustrating = helping make clear
  • To illustrate, he pulls the cowboy hat lower over his eyes.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • He holds his glass of wine aloft to illustrate just what that passion is—in case I hadn't guessed.   (source)
  • Counties within New York State illustrate the same thing.   (source)
  • He had been able to create a dozen excuses to validate his choice of sending the giants, but in truth, he had sent Biggrin's people more to illustrate his undeniable command to himself, to the shard, and to the impertinent demon, than for any possible military gains.   (source)
  • I was slightly stunned by this story, for I was not prepared to have an unlettered and untutored Eskimo give me a lecture, even in parable form, illustrating the theory of survival of the fittest through the agency of natural selection.   (source)
    illustrating = helping make clear
  • It was then that I witnessed an episode which illustrated the sad, schismatic division of North and South more starkly than any conceivable work of art or sociology.   (source)
    illustrated = helped make clear
  • Rising from the table, Uncle Hal yanked his belt off to illustrate.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value — the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives — and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.   (source)
  • In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. ... One clear illustration of this is the fact that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale.   (source)
    illustration = example (to help clarify or demonstrate)
  • Tarrou's notes end with a story illustrating the curious state of mind arrived at no less by Cottard than by other dwellers in the plague-stricken town.   (source)
    illustrating = helping make clear
  • The myths never tire of illustrating the point that conflict in the created world is not what it seems.   (source)
  • Our Mr. Parker's son is studying architecture and we had him draw us up a sketch, just a rough sketch to illustrate what we had in mind and to show the members of the board, because they couldn't have visualized the compromise we offered.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • It's as follows: In the world of today your individual man has to be willing to illustrate a more and more narrow and restricted point of existence.   (source)
  • To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of...   (source)
  • To illustrate my meaning, let me take the case in point as an example.   (source)
  • …when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate "How Sockery Set a Hen" Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea;   (source)
  • However, placing his right arm about her waist, his other clasped in hers at her shoulder, she directed his attention to her feet and his and began to illustrate the few primary movements of the dance.   (source)
  • Herr Settembrini coordinated head, shoulders, and hands in a serene, polite gesture to illustrate his question: Yes, well?   (source)
  • Just at that point, to illustrate his story, out came his arm.   (source)
  • Let me illustrate my meaning.   (source)
  • Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate.   (source)
  • But the mature cases all illustrate the Shakespearian law.   (source)
  • The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide.   (source)
    illustrated = helped make clear
  • But here—if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable—was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty.   (source)
    illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
  • …exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him to illustrate his remarks.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • …generally kept very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael Ivanovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivanovich was "not a whit worse than you or I." At dinner the prince usually spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to…   (source)
  • Pansy was already dressed; she was always in advance of the time: it seemed to illustrate her pretty patience and the graceful stillness with which she could sit and wait.   (source)
  • The following illustrates to what a degree severity on that point was carried.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  • The result of this lowering was somewhat illustrative of that sagacious saying in the Fishery,—the more whales the less fish.   (source)
    illustrative = serving to help demonstrate
  • Hear an illustration, reader.   (source)
    illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
  • However, I have managed to live thirty years without this protection, you will say; but I will endeavor a little to illustrate my meaning.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and pecularities.   (source)
    illustration = example
  • As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I cannot refrain from relating them.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in the insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women; in science; in art; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.   (source)
  • As the Huron used his native language, the prisoners, notwithstanding the caution of the natives had kept them within the swing of their tomahawks, could only conjecture the substance of his harangue from the nature of those significant gestures with which an Indian always illustrates his eloquence.   (source)
    illustrates = helps make clear
  •   "May I ask to what these questions tend?"
      "Merely to the illustration of your character," said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. "I am trying to make it out."   (source)
    illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
  • I shall therefore make one more attempt to illustrate it satisfactorily.   (source)
    illustrate = help make clear
  • Could I have hoped to render it worthy of your patronage, the public would at once have seen the propriety of inscribing a work designed to illustrate the domestic antiquities of England, and particularly of our Saxon forefathers, to the learned author of the Essays upon the Horn of King Ulphus, and on the Lands bestowed by him upon the patrimony of St Peter.   (source)
  • I have also informed my Reader what this purpose will be found principally to be: namely to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement.   (source)
  • …that the people of Israel should be captive so as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians should be oppressed by the Medes so as to discover the greatness of the soul of Cyrus; and that the Athenians should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus: then at the present time, in order to discover the virtue of an Italian spirit, it was necessary that Italy should be reduced to the extremity that she is now in, that she should be more enslaved than the…   (source)
  • As it happens, there is an instance that comes to mind which I believe illustrates rather well the real limits of whatever truth may be contained in Mr Harry Smith's views.†   (source)
  • He illustrates medical journals.†   (source)
  • That story illustrates my mother's character.†   (source)
  • The experience of Zoya Najabi, a twenty-one-year-old woman from a middle-class family in Kabul, Afghanistan, illustrates the point.†   (source)
  • There, Levy says, like is not intended to introduce a literal, verbatim quotation, but an illustrative example, letting her "offer a stereotypical response for her brother."†   (source)
  • [ cited cases and gave illustrative examples from the past.†   (source)
  • It's just by way of illustration.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the middle of these three illustrative points, Mrs. Glass had left off listening and sat down.†   (source)
  • This Noise heralds or illustrates the presence of Equus the God.†   (source)
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  • The magazine is called "Sports Illustrated" because of the photos.
    illustrated = with pictures
  • The assembly directions include illustrations to identify each part.
    illustrations = drawings
  • There was also a science book, which must have been for young children because it was filled with glossy illustrations.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Many months later, he would also paint over the cover of that book and give it a new title, after one of the stories he would write and illustrate inside it.   (source)
    illustrate = draw pictures to accompany
  • She used to be a children's-book illustrator.   (source)
    illustrator = someone who draws pictures to accompany a book or other writing
  • She could see the illustrations in her mind: the Sierra Madre, El Rancho de las Rosas, and a carefree young girl running through the vineyard.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • I opened the box and found a brand new Shahnamah, a hardback with glossy colored illustrations beneath the passages.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • Lori was working as a freelance artist specializing in fantasy, illustrating calendars and game boards and book jackets.   (source)
    illustrating = drawing pictures to accompany
  • At Hamilton Field, an artist was working his way down the planes, painting each one's name and accompanying illustration.   (source)
    illustration = drawing
  • Some of the potions had effects almost too gruesome to think about, and there were some very unpleasant illustrations, which included a man who seemed to have been turned inside out and a witch sprouting several extra pairs of arms out of her head.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
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  • Instead she would copy pictures, or else she'd colour in the black-and-white illustrations in thick, erudite books of travel and history with her coloured pencils.   (source)
  • "Do you enjoy pictures?" he asked, picking up an illustrated guide to the Louvre that he had borrowed from the basement.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by pictures or drawings
  • I suspect she suspected that I had a different take on the matter, but she never said anything when as a child I devoured the comic books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and an illustrated children's Bible and other stories of the gods.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • The deerstalker hat was invented by a man called Sidney Paget, who did the illustrations for the original books.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings
  • He was also a good illustrator, and he drew the pictures for his own books.   (source)
    illustrator = someone who draws pictures
  • On a shelf I find a book of landscapes filled with illustrations of every stinking tree that grows: sycamore, linden, aspen, willow, fir, tulip poplar, chestnut, elm, spruce, pine.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • With the help of a dictionary, Robbie had read five pages in a morning and then given up and made do with the illustrations instead.   (source)
  • The girl in the illustrations looked nothing like her, and yet it could not be coincidence.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • She bought us illustrated books on the Norse gods, which gave us nightmares.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by pictures
  • "This is nice," she said, pointing to a large illustration that showed a group of men in various states of despair, holding their heads, lying on the floor, or huddling in corners.   (source)
    illustration = picture
  • Last night, for example, Margot was reading a book with beautiful illustrations; she got up and put the book aside for later.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • "Someone asked me to write a children's book, with illustrations of animals," Ruth said.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • I peered at the illustration.   (source)
    illustration = drawing
  • Inside were a pair of moccasins and an illustrated New Testament.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • He motioned to the page's illustration of ten intertwined circles called Sephiroth.   (source)
    illustration = drawing
  • Hieroglyphs and illustrations crowded the page, but I couldn't make sense of them.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings
  • But I amassed 300 images of my family, students and colleagues, along with dozens of offbeat illustrations that could make a point about childhood dreams.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • Or a kid with a brand-new box of crayons illustrating his science lesson: ROY G BIV.   (source)
    illustrating = drawing pictures to accompany
  • He didn't wear peasant clothing like the fishermen, but rather a man's kimono, with kimono trousers that made him look to me like the illustrations you may have seen of samurai.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Now that we had spending money, we bought the illustrated paperbacks with their gaudy pictures.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • The article was an ingratiating portrait of the magazine and its staff, including illustrations with a particularly favourable portrait of Berger.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • Andrews, a compulsive eater (he had filled a scrapbook with illustrated edibles, everything from strawberry shortcake to roasted pig), said, "Maybe he is crazy."   (source)
    illustrated = pictures drawn of
  • Joey picked up a Sports Illustrated magazine from three years ago and started to read.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by pictures
  • There lay dragons slaughtered, towers ruined, monsters from dim ages toppled into rusted coinages pterodactyls smashed like biplanes from old and always meaningless wars, crustacea the color of emeralds abandoned on a white sand shore where the tide of life was going out, all, all the illustrations changing now, shifting, shriveling as the small flesh cooled.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Beneath those words, three simple, hand-painted illustrations, sun-bleached but still decipherable, declared exactly what sorts of games the park's founders intended Clarkston's residents to play on the field.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • I told him I'd write a story and he could do the illustrations for it.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Dr. Nazir Abdul, a pediatrician, explained that while the Taliban had ruled Kabul, they had banned all books with illustrations and publicly burned any they found.   (source)
  • He looked through the rest of the book, admiring the illustrations and reading parts of different stories.   (source)
  • Nana dressed up as a headless pirate, as the executioner of the Tower of London, as a werewolf or a horned devil, depending on her inspiration of the moment and on the ideas she got while flipping through the pages of certain horror magazines, which she bought for this purpose and from which, although she was unable to read, she copied the illustrations.   (source)
  • When she typed or worked on the illustrations for his manuscripts, she came to his quarters or to his office adjoining the clinic.   (source)
  • Opposite that page is one of the illustrations that grace the book.   (source)
  • Illicit microfilms of the illustrations in that Vatican edition.   (source)
  • She was dressed to play golf, and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration, her chin raised a little jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee.   (source)
    illustration = drawing
  • She imagined me, I expect, sitting down on a wet day and looking solemnly at the illustrations, and perhaps getting a sheet of drawing-paper and a paint-box and copying one of the pictures.   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • He ran a series of illustrated articles on "The Churches of Our Childhood."   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • Simon was a blond boy with big cheekbones and wide gray eyes and had the arms of a cricketer--I go by the illustrations; we never played anything but softball.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • Go into the sitting room, Anne—be sure your feet are clean and don't let any flies in—and bring me out the illustrated card that's on the mantelpiece.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by a drawing
  • The perfect and unblemished heroes of his childhood now seemed cheap to him— fit only to illustrate advertisements for collars and toothpaste.   (source)
    illustrate = act as pictures to accompany
  • 'But I've lots of illustrated papers left.' He turned to the pile of papers in the corner and took up a heap six inches thick.   (source)
    illustrated = with drawings
  • But only later did this sort of art provide the illustrations for it.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • Philip took the book in his hands and hurried through the illustrations.   (source)
  • …Giotto, it was a long time before I could find any pleasure in seeing in our schoolroom (where the copies he had brought me were hung) that Charity devoid of charity, that Envy who looked like nothing so much as a plate in some medical book, illustrating the compression of the glottis or uvula by a tumour in the tongue, or by the introduction of the operator's instrument, a Justice whose greyish and meanly regular features were the very same as those which adorned the faces of certain…   (source)
    illustrating = drawing pictures to accompany
  • I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had...   (source)
    illustration = drawing
  • It will be published in the illustrated papers.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • Mr. Fogg absorbed himself throughout the evening in the perusal of The Times and Illustrated London News.   (source)
    illustrated = with drawings
  • In Paris he had purchased a bag of hominy at an establishment which called itself an American Agency, and at which the New York illustrated papers were also to be procured, and he had carried it about with him, and shown extreme serenity and fortitude in the somewhat delicate position of having his hominy prepared for him and served at anomalous hours, at the hotels he successively visited.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • By the second week of November I had been interviewed by Inside Edition, Life Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Early Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and CNN Live.†   (source)
  • There is a pen-and-ink drawing on page eleven by her father, an illustrator for the magazine: a view of the North Calcutta skyline sketched from the roof of their flat one foggy January morning.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, to look occupied, I turned through old volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist or an illustrated H. G. Wells he had in his room, but even the pictures were more than I could absorb.†   (source)
  • She makes us stick our heads under the tap outside and dry ourselves with an old towel pulled out from under a pile of magazines called The Illustrated London News so old they have pictures of Queen Victoria and Prince Edward waving.†   (source)
  • Her big present was an illustrated book of fairy tales which Sarai had picked out in New Jerusalem months before.†   (source)
  • She had a beautiful figure, the kind you saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the kind that made every girl around her take a hit on her self-esteem just by being in the same room.†   (source)
  • Two months later, Peter King of Sports Illustrated reported its shocking early verdicts.†   (source)
  • In an illustrated pamphlet called the "Ferris Wheel Souvenir" the company wrote: "Built in the face of every obstacle, it is an achievement which reflects so much credit upon the inventor, that were Mr. Ferris the subject of a Monarchy, instead of a citizen of a great Republic, his honest heart would throb beneath a breast laden with the decorations of royalty."†   (source)
  • His real name was Herman Sluring; Pickwick was the name Betsie and I used between ourselves because he looked so incredibly like the illustrator's drawing in our copy of Dickens.†   (source)
  • She writes a regular column in the local newspaper about women in sports and has had three articles published in Sports Illustrated.†   (source)
  • I lent them to an exhibition of old children's books in Genoa: a lavishly illustrated special edition, a copy with a signed dedication by the illustrator, and the two copies that belonged to my own children with all their scribbled comments — I always asked them to mark the bits they liked best — and finally my own personal copy.†   (source)
  • He had with him a tin trunk with his clothes for the mountain wastelands, the illustrated novels that he bought in pamphlet form every month and that he himself sewed into cardboard covers, and the books of love poetry that he recited from memory and that were about to crumble into dust with so much reading.†   (source)
  • Hesitating, still worried by the harshness in his voice, Jessica returned to the book, studied an illustrated constellation from the Arrakeen sky: "Muad'Dib: The Mouse," and noted that the tail pointed north.†   (source)
  • There was even a rumour that some classic books—like the Sherlock Holmes ones—weren't in our library because the main characters smoked too much, and when you came across a page torn out of an illustrated book or magazine, this was because there'd been a picture on it of someone smoking.†   (source)
  • His clothes took up half the closet, his razor still sat next to the soap dish in the bathroom, the subscription to Sports Illustrated had come in the mail the day before.†   (source)
  • They got me camping supplies and a subscription to Sports Illustrated?†   (source)
  • His appearance was what might result if you shredded an illustrated edition of the works of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, then pasted the pieces back together in random order.†   (source)
  • The first few freaks were standard-issue sideshow fare, and not especially peculiar: an "illustrated" man covered in tattoos; a bearded lady stroking her long chin-whiskers and cackling; a human pincushion who pierced his face with needles and drove nails into his nostrils with a hammer.†   (source)
  • Before long, she was placing her own pictures in the illustrated weekly where she worked, and finally she left the darkroom for the staff of professional photographers.†   (source)
  • I always forgot that Jack had a certain inappropriateness in his expressions and gestures, as if he had learned them from an illustrated text.†   (source)
  • Even the sea, a band of navy blue at night or turquoise at noon, was the unmistakable creation of a compassionate illustrator, and fit tightly within the intarsia of fields and sky polished by a weightless fume of silver light.†   (source)
  • I've been wandering around the hammock with an illustrated book in one hand and a basket in the other.†   (source)
  • At last, in desperation, I remembered the books that Beatrice had given me for a wedding present, and I sat down in the library one morning turning over the pages as a last hope, passing from illustration to illustration in a sort of frenzy.   (source)
    illustration = picture
  • "There are no diagrams?" asked Mr. Bunting. "No illustrations throwing light—"   (source)
    illustrations = pictures
  • It was lofty and half-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians'-gallery, and tapestries believed to illustrate the granting of Magna Charta.   (source)
    illustrate = draw pictures to accompany
  • Now, because Carrie was pretty, the gentlemen who made up the advance illustrations of shows about to appear for the Sunday papers selected Carrie's photo along with others to illustrate the announcement.   (source)
  • Course I suppose it's all fine and dandy to illustrate the lessons with these decorated book-marks and blackboard drawings and so on, but when it comes down to real he-hustling, getting out and drumming up customers—or members, I mean, why, you got to make it worth a fellow's while.   (source)
  • He never read them, for he had long lost the habit of reading, but he liked to turn the pages, look at the illustrations if they were illustrated, and mend the bindings.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • As Kennicott switched on the seat-light she turned drearily to the illustrations in a motion-picture magazine.   (source)
  • I remember how jubilant Markham was at securing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then the others; and those he liked he read again and again.   (source)
    illustrations = drawings or photographs
  • It was a fair size, but it looked quite large, since there was hardly any furniture in it; there was no carpet on the floor; there were no pictures on the walls; and most rooms had something, photographs or supplements in cheap frames from the Christmas numbers of the illustrated papers.   (source)
    illustrated = accompanied by drawings
  • He went to sleep and dreamt that he was suddenly sound of foot and out at the Cape in a regiment of Yeomanry; the pictures he had looked at in the illustrated papers gave materials for his fancy; and he saw himself on the Veldt, in khaki, sitting with other men round a fire at night.   (source)
  • At first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the Illustrated London News came out with his portrait, copied from a photograph in the Reform Club.   (source)
    illustrated = with drawings
  • I'd read from the Bible, and from the Gospel of Thomas, and from Sports Illustrated.†   (source)
  • I pulled down the illustrated children's book of Norse myths my mom read to me when I was little.†   (source)
  • Samuel Riddle bore a startling resemblance to the illustrated figure on a Monopoly board.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man, if he — ' 'The what?' asked Mr Halloway.†   (source)
  • He watched the Illustrated Man's hand move down to touch, trace, feel for life.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man barked, but whether at man or woman, the boys below could not tell.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man sucked in a mighty breath.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man banged the switch a notch grinning wildly at no one.†   (source)
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