1848. Punch, XIV., 226. He never broke a bank, He shuns cross-barred trousers, His linen is not illustrated, but beautifully clean.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, I., 51. Colored, or illustrated shirts, as they are called, are especially objected to by the men. [[318]]
1889. Puck’s Library, Apr., p. 12. Being an educated man, I feel ten thousand woes, Cavorting for the populace In illustrated clothes.
History of the Four Kings. See Four Kings.
Hit, subs. (common).—A success; e.g., To make a hit = to score; to profit; to excel.
1602. Marston, Antonio and Mellida. Induction. When use hath taught me action to hit the right point of a ladie’s part.
1700. Congreve, Way of the World, ii., 5. A hit, a hit! a palpable hit! I confess it.
1821. Egan, Tom and Jerry, bk. I., ch. i. Teach me to make a hit of so Kean a quality that it may not only ‘tell,’ but be long remembered in the metropolis.
1822–36. Jno. Wilson, Noctes Amb., Wks. II., 210. Mr. Peel seems to have made a hit in the chief character of Shiel’s play, The Apostate.
1828–45. T. Hood, Poems, v., p. 197, (Ed. 1846). Nor yet did the heiress herself omit The arts that help to make a hit.