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Sentences starting with fame

Fame beckoned him upward from her templed steep. [6]
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,--very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual! [6]
Fame is not good for the hearts and minds of simple folk. [11]
Fame had not come to him, but it was on the way. [5]
Fame inspires love, and what the world will not grant my master, in spite of his great talent, it conceded to the other long ago. [10]
Fame to the ambitious is like salt water to the thirsty; the more he gets, the more he wants. [10]
Fame is after all a kind of rude handling, and a name that is often on vulgar lips seems to borrow something not to be desired, as the paper money that passes from hand to hand gains somewhat which is a loss thereby. [6]
Fame is an accident. [5]
Fame awaits him. [9]

Sentences ending with fame

A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
Further on it will be seen that he is a country expert on the fiddle, and has a three-township fame. [5]
He has a wide fame. [5]
How hard it was to find the right answer, when she asked him whether he did not hope everything from the great physician's intervention, or when she inquired what were the works to which Galen owed his chief fame! [10]
I am ready to stake everything, even my life, only to win fame. [10]
It is idle to speculate on the phenomenon taking place within her, and it may merely be remarked in passing that she possessed a quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame. [9]
Who entreated you to spare her fair fame? [10]
This was grandeur, this was fame. [5]
An honour from the young English Queen--that would mate with Madelinette's fame. [11]
I am paying the penalty of fame. [9]

Short sentences using fame

But is fame nothing? [5]
Gold, diamonds, power, fame? [5]
These spread her fame. [5]
My hands had fame. [11]
Here was fame. [11]
Fame, fame! [10]

Sentences containing fame two or more times

Ned's first voyage to the Chinchas, but his fame had gone before him--the fame of being a man who would fight at the dropping of a handkerchief, when imposed upon, and would stand no nonsense. [5]
Fame, yes surely fame was the "word"; it should henceforth be his word! [10]

More example sentences with the word fame in them

The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
Gifted Hopkins, a young poet of distinction, whose fame will reach you by and by, if it has not come to your ears already. [6]
If I find you deserve it I'll take you under my protection and make your fame and fortune for you. [5]
Only this, I would have remained where there is honor and fame and everything beautiful. [10]
The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
He was still working on the Call when it was written, and contributing literary articles to the Californian, of which Bret Harte, unknown to fame, was editor. [5]
Yet, though the word fame had long been embittered to him, the inhumanity which clung to his deeds had the least share in it. [10]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
Had he been wise in deciding before he had taught a glimpse of the accomplished Douglas, whose name end fame filled the land? [9]
Titles, fame, estates, will not move her. [9]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
Therefore, if one were holding strictly to the year date, neither by age nor by fame would Beaumont have been eligible to attend such a gathering of august personages in the year 1601; but the point is unimportant. [5]
In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill-cities--for Baton Rouge, yet to come, is not on a hill, but only on high ground. [5]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
What fame is--Ulrich was to learn! [10]
Now her self-sacrifice was richly rewarded, and it would make her happier than himself if she should learn that his own merit had led him to the height of fame which she prayed that he might reach. [10]
Inasmuch as he was not suffered to have Ann herself in his company, he conceived the wish to possess her likeness in a picture; and he sent hither to that end a master of good fame, of the guild of painters in Venice. [10]
Love, she said, was a woman's first necessity: love being forfeited; there was but one thing left that could give a passing zest to a wasted life, and that was fame, admiration, the applause of the multitude. [5]
In his long walks it was not on the law that Philip was ruminating, nor was the fame of success in it occupying his mind. [4]
My ghost shall visit you in the smiles of Paradise, and tell your high fame to the minds of that region, which is far more preferable than this lonely cell. [5]
Whatever be the value of fame, he has it in his possession, and is not willing to have it dimmed or lost. [14]
Then she looked up at the old man beseechingly; and as he had praised her beauty, so now--she herself knew not how she had such courage--the praises of his fame, his greatness and goodness, flowed from her lips. [10]
But if it's true, you'll belong to England and to all the world, too, and you'll have fame everlasting. [11]
Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. [2]
A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them;-- Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! [6]
Lucky for you, too, you yarn-spinner, that the thing did develop so, or you wouldn't be getting fame and shekels out of the results of my story. [11]
Indeed, they lived together in Ninth Street, in a boarding-house, there, which had the honor of lodging and partially feeding several other young fellows of like kidney, who have since gone their several ways into fame or into obscurity. [5]
His the lute to whose sweet accents, Ilion owes undying fame, And the triumph and the praises Which surround her deathless name. [10]
Why from east to west, from north to south in this Province of Quebec my name, my fame, have been all-conquering. [11]
The anxiety was to invent and launch something that should float on to the generations to come, and carry the name of the builder and the fame of his generation. [4]
He had been to high school and to college, and he had taken one or two prizes en route to graduation; but no fame travelled with him, save that he was the laziest man of any college year for a decade. [11]
How cruel not to have given us warning, and we could have greeted you as your great fame deserves! [9]
The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
He was ambitious to distinguish himself by some great service to mankind, and this ambition for fame and real public service left no room for avarice in his composition. [7]
Hear what new titles to fame Heron's son can find for the imperial guest who is to arrive to-morrow. [10]
It was the time when the youthful Speranski was at the zenith of his fame and his reforms were being pushed forward with the greatest energy. [2]
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
The counsel of Thy lips shall guide my way; I have obeyed whenever Thou hast ruled; I call on Thee--and, with my fame, Thy glory Shall fill the world, from farthest east to west. [10]
I have been thus detailed in sketching his early years because upon these strange foundations the structure of his great fame and service was built. [7]
His heart dictated this, but honour, too, commanded him to restore to the maiden and her sister the fair fame which his passionate impetuosity had injured. [10]
This was fame, this was the omnipresence of a god; there could be no higher aspiration for him, who had obtained such honor. [10]
The readers of this great story-teller, who was so long in obtaining recognition, who "made twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him" before he achieved success, will find his genius fully appreciated and fairly weighed in this discriminating essay. [6]
Nast, the cartoonist, then in his first fame, propped a joint tour, Clemens to lecture while he, Nast, would illustrate with "lightning" sketches; but even this could not be considered now. [5]
The conflict in the young man's mind between the desire for fame and the sense of its emptiness as compared with nobler aims has set me thinking about the subject from a somewhat humbler point of view. [6]
Only recently has the study of him by English scholars--I do not refer to the verbal squabbles over the text--been proportioned to his preeminence, and his fame is still slowly asserting itself among foreign peoples. [4]
Venice, Queen of the sea, mother of riches, throne of power, hall of fame, temple of art, who could escape thy spell! [10]
A youth from the school of poets, attired as the goddess of Fame, bewailed in well-rhymed verses that for a long time no one had given her so much to do as the Emperor Charles. [10]
Above and beyond the sacrifice of a woman's life, the joy of possessing her soul and affection, is something more desirable still--fame and glory--personal fame and glory, The woman may share them, of course, and be content with the radiance. [9]
The leader of the robbers was a small, quick-spoken man, and the fame of his vigorous manner and his intrepidity was in everybody's mouth when we arrived. [5]
But there are the quarries--" Petrus did not let his companion finish his sentence, but interrupted him with all the warmth of youth, exclaiming: "And do you mean to say that fame cannot be won by the arts of building? [10]
He would see the parties married, and then violate the confidence of the man who had taught him that trick; he would divulge the secret and so remove somewhat of the obloquy that attached to his niece's fame. [5]
The fame of the miracle went abroad into all lands. [5]
Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust. [10]
I am for the man who was the first settler on the St. Lawrence and this section of the continent--his history, his tradition, his honour and fame are in the history books of the world. [11]
It told of the little good Folk of the Scarlet Hills, in vague allusive phrases: their noiseless wanderings; their sojourning with the eagle, the wolf, and the deer; their triumph over the winds, the whirlpools, and the spirits of evil fame. [11]
The fame of the letter spread through the town. [5]
I must win the laurel of fame. [6]
Also how, in the frowsy hotel at Angel's Camp, he heard the frog anecdote that would become the corner-stone of his fame. [5]
He would have the fight for fame. [11]
Where now is the fame of Bouillaud, Professor and Deputy, the Sangrado of his time? [6]
And now came the Crusader home, bronzed and battle-scarred, but bringing a great and splendid fame to lay at the feet of his bride. [5]
The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
This always distressed the committee, who saw a large profit to their venture in the prestige of his fame. [5]
His latest book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, had added largely to his fame and income. [5]
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvelous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. [5]
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvellous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. [5]
After this work--of that he was sure--he would no longer need the borrowed fame which, moreover, he rejected with honest indignation. [10]
I am assured that every time a man finds himself blooming into fame, they just softly snake him down and relegate him to a wholesome obscurity. [5]
Don't flatter yourself that any article of yours is rejected because you are unknown to fame. [6]
I do not state this on my own authority, I got it from a French physician of fame and repute--a man who was born in Paris, and had practiced there all his life. [5]
Like every outward splendour, fame dazzles the eyes of men. [10]
It gave the spies a hair-lifting but pleasurable thrill to find themselves face to face with the Extraordinary Man who had filled the world with the fame of his more than human ingenuities. [5]
Then, all that sought celebrity and fame and distinction expected to find them in the success of that experiment. [7]
Its fame is somewhat dimmed in these latter days, because of the doubts so many authors of Palestine travels have felt themselves privileged to cast upon it. [5]
In battle, in slaughter, when his wounds burned, in plundering, at the gaming-table, everywhere he called upon the Holy Virgin, and also, but very rarely, on the "word," fame. [10]
Why should not she give him his real start, win his gratitude, help him to his fame, and then, when it was won, be pointed out as a discoverer and a patron? [11]
No foolish passion shall prevent the convalescent youth from following his father upward along the pathway of fame. [10]
Is your mind set upon fame? [10]
There you shall see waxlights on the table, and finger-glasses with green leaves, and fine linen and napkins, and plenty of silver--even silver wine-coolers, and beakers of fame and beauty, and flowers, flowers everywhere, and fruit of exquisite charm. [11]
In order to secure the only suitable site for the statues to be erected to Cleopatra's honour and fame, I enter into judgment with her foes, expose myself to the insult with which boastful insolence is permitted to vent its wrath upon me. [10]
Don Juan was satiated with fame. [10]
And now this same Philip d'Avranche with his new name and fame was on his way to defend the Isle of Jersey. [11]
That old Divine said it was a piece of the finest kind of literary art--and David Gray of the Buffalo Courier said it ought to be printed privately and left behind me when I died, and then my fame as a literary artist would last. [5]
Pleasure, Love, Fame, Riches: they are but temporary disguises for lasting realities--Pain, Grief, Shame, Poverty. [5]
Besides, if he returned victorious his fame and reward would be undivided. [10]
This made him raise his head, swelled his heart, urged him into new paths of fame. [10]
Besides, whatever Jerry's qualifications for his fame as the greatest rider of the sage, certain it was that his best point was not far-sightedness. [13]
Fame, reputation, constant public mention--these are the detective's bread and butter. [5]
His fame and promise were sweet to their nostrils. [11]
This is the private history (which must never be told) of the document which on January first became, as far as fame and posterity is concerned, the Honourable Asa P. Gray's--forever and forever. [9]
Ireland is no place for a sane and level man to fight for honour, fame, and name. [11]
It is a pity some great ruin does not fall in and flatten out some of these reptiles, and scare their kind out of ever giving their names to fame upon any walls or monuments again, forever. [5]
We brought some pictures here, painted by the great master, Titian, whose fame must surely have reached you. [10]
But much honor, perhaps also wealth and fame, can be gained among my troopers. [10]
Here he was penned up in a little island, chained to a criminal having the fame of a martyr. [11]
I am not patient, and when I leave my father I will do something that shall win me fame. [10]
It brought both parties fame, and created a fountain of commiseration for them in sentimental breasts that is running yet. [5]
Her gift of palmistry and other sorts of fortune-telling begot for her at last a witch's name and fame. [5]
The fame of our city spread even across the Atlantic, reaching obscure hamlets in Europe, where villagers gathered up their lares and penates, mortgaged their homes, and bought steamship tickets from philanthropists,--philanthropists in diamonds. [9]

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