Both Uses of
illustrious
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- By degrees, the observer came to feel nearly as much interest in this chicken of illustrious race as the mother-hen did.†
Chpt 10 *
- Chanticleer and his family had already been transported thither, where the two hens had forthwith begun an indefatigable process of egg-laying, with an evident design, as a matter of duty and conscience, to continue their illustrious breed under better auspices than for a century past.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
famous and admired; or worthy of admiration