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  • She was dressed, as neatly as a new pin, in an "illigant" Connemara cloak, which seemed to be donned for the first time, besides a bran new bonnet; and, thanks to

    She and I, Volume 1

  • “Oh, your honour is clane mistaken; there is always an illigant fire and an illigant bed too.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • “Well, then, I would just advise your honour to do no such thing, but to turn back with me to the village above, where there is an illigant inn where your honour will be well accommodated.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • It is an illigant wedding present I'll be sendin 'you.

    Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • 'Glory to ould Ireland, here's grand illigant ham!' exclaimed the first mentioned individual, as he dragged from a shelf a large dish containing the article he had named.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • The music was the most illigant thing you ever hard in your born days, and there wasn't one less than forty Munster pipers playing before King Mahoon and his friends, as they marched along through great broad streets, -- a thousand times finer than Great George's-street, in Cork; for, my dears, there was nothing to be seen but goold, and jewels, and guineas, lying like sand under our feet.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various

  • Magazine_, the Matron's room must be "an illigant place, intoirely"; while as for amusement, if the picture of a nurse giving a patient a cup of ink by mistake for liquorice-water isn't a real good practical side-splitter, the Baron would like to be informed what is?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 Various

  • "Oh, think of the illigant stirabout, that'll be spilte intirely."

    Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

  • She was boastin 'of the fine place she had, an' th 'illigant carriage that was comin' t 'take her to the counthry.

    Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • "'Tis an illigant style the boy has," declared the journeyman, and continued:

    The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

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