The first three or four were quite illegible, the ink having run.

Upon a pillar near it is a fine inscription, but now quite illegible.

It was a fragment of a written sheet, partly burned, and in several places quite illegible.

P.S.- Ihopethat this letter will not be quite illegible, but I have no amanuensis at present.

Here the writing became quite illegible.

Aunt Aggie's signature was quite illegible.

I asked him to write only his name and hers, and he attempted it, but it was quite illegible.'

It ran as follows, omitting the date and the names of persons and places, which were, of course, quite illegible:

It was somewhat difficult to decipher the charms and four words towards the end are quite illegible, and consequently they are omitted.

Muller raked out the heap very carefully, but the writing on the few pieces of paper still left whole was quite illegible.

" Quite illegible," was Mrs. Grantly's dictum.