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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
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“Oh, your honour is clane mistaken; there is always an illigant fire and an illigant bed too.”
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“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.”
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It is an illigant wedding present I'll be sendin 'you.
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'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.
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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.
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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?
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"Oh, think of the illigant stirabout, that'll be spilte intirely."
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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
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"'Tis an illigant style the boy has," declared the journeyman, and continued:
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