He turned and looked down on the sleepers, and his face, illegible for many a day, showed bitter resentment and scorn.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
But that step is not taken for years: there seems to be a superstitious dislike to obliterating the old name, as if the dead would resent it, and there it often remains till it becomes illegible.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
They were discovered there not long since; but damp and vermin had rendered them wholly illegible.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner