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Sentences starting with famous

Famous Natchez-under- the-hill has not changed notably in twenty years; in outward aspect-- judging by the descriptions of the ancient procession of foreign tourists--it has not changed in sixty; for it is still small, straggling, and shabby. [5]

Sentences ending with famous

I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
Many of my young correspondents have told me in so many words, "I want to be famous. [6]
She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous. [6]
He entered, not without some apprehension engendered by the legends which make it famous. [4]
I do not think she wants to be famous. [6]
On first receiving the news, under the influence of indignation and resentment the Emperor had found a phrase that pleased him, fully expressed his feelings, and has since become famous. [2]
She did not say in so many words, "I too am a beauty," but she could mot help seeing that she had many of the attractions of feature and form which had made the original of the picture before her famous. [6]
Nor is it rare to see those who started in company for the gates of pearl seated together on the banks that border the avenue to that other portal, gathering the roses for which it is so famous. [6]
Byron woke up one morning and found himself famous. [6]
Scarcely has a non-whistling woman been more famous. [4]

Short sentences using famous

I wasn't famous then. [5]
They made him famous. [5]
It was a famous time. [9]
The Famous Stocking Case. [5]
Her name had become famous. [10]
A Famous Violin. [6]

Sentences containing famous two or more times

Nain, famous for the raising of the widow's son, and Endor, as famous for the performances of her witch are in view. [5]
Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
Many, but not all, of my readers remember that famous man's famous preparation. [6]

More example sentences with the word famous in them

How dull we writers, famous or obscure, are in the acquisition of knowledge as compared with them! [6]
The newspaper men would have made it as famous as the assassination of Caesar, but for their limitations. [5]
It is hardly without a smile that we resuscitate the old question of the 'vis insita' of the muscular fibre, so famous in the discussions of Haller and his contemporaries. [3]
You'll be famous within a fortnight, Laura. [5]
One afternoon when, with other compatriots, we were being hurried through a famous castle, the guide unwittingly ushered us into a drawing-room where the owner and several guests were seated about a tea-table. [9]
He first lived with his venerable connection, Dr. Ripley, in the dwelling made famous by Hawthorne as the "Old Manse. [6]
Our world, too, with all its breathing life, is but a leaf to be folded with the other strata, and if I am only patient, by and by I shall be just as famous as imperious Caesar himself, embedded with me in a conglomerate. [6]
In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
Taus, the innkeeper's wife, now came out, a buxom and vigorous Egyptian woman of middle age, carrying some of the puffs for which she was famous, and which she had just made with her own hands. [10]
There is a whole family connection in New England, and that a very famous one, to many of whose members, in different generations, all the products of the dairy are the subjects of a congenital antipathy. [6]
At last Darius, who was famous for his skill in archery, took the bow. [10]
The famous Ruysch, who died a hundred and thirty years ago, showed that each of the viscera has its terminal vessels arranged in its own peculiar way; the same fact which you may see illustrated in Gerber's figures after the minute injections of Berres. [3]
My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
New entertainments, in which the Queen commanded her to participate, awaited her in Pithom, but pleasure at the return of her famous son appeared to double her power of endurance. [10]
The Brahmin blood which came from his grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flynt, (see Cat. [6]
And that morning, when Hugh had gone out, she sent for Starling and startled him by commanding that the famous Lowestoft set be used at dinner. [9]
You see, Ulrich, when a man becomes famous like you, he is known for a long distance, everything he does makes a great hue and cry, and echo repeats it in every alley. [10]
These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
Father and he were famous friends. [5]
Hermon knew him well, for he had listened eagerly in the Museum to the lectures of the famous Herophilus, and his image also had stamped itself upon his soul. [10]
As soon as we had swung clear of the cove he made for the weather stays, where he assumed a posture not unlike that in the famous picture of Farragut ascending Mobile Bay. [9]
Among the latter was the famous leech Erasistratus, who shared Archias's cushions, and had been solicited by the latter to try to restore his blind nephew's sight. [10]
The lost battle was the famous disaster that is called in history the Battle of the Herrings. [5]
True, there never was such a call for the paper before, and it never sold such a large edition or soared to such celebrity; but does one want to be famous for lunacy, and prosper upon the infirmities of his mind? [5]
His whole appearance was so grotesque, I felt for a minute as if there was a showman behind him who would pull him down presently and put up Judy, or the hangman, or the Devil, or some other wooden personage of the famous spectacle. [6]
The famous physician was really under obligations to remain near the sovereign at this time of day. [10]
In Bremen I was most cordially received in the family of Mohr, a member of my corps, in whose circle I spent some delightful hours, and also an evening never to be forgotten in the famous old Rathskeller. [10]
A famous one was headed "Shall Wool and Cotton Kings Rule the Nation? [9]
The famous Blondin was going to perform on a tightrope in another part of the garden. [5]
Her own table was fairly littered with biographies more or less famous which had been fetched from the library, and the method of each considered. [9]
He is sincere, warmhearted,--his poetry shows that,--not in haste to be famous, and he looks to me as if he only wanted love to steady him. [6]
If a man wants to be famous, he had much better try the advertising doctor than the terrible editor, whose waste-basket is a maw which is as insatiable as the temporary stomach of Jack the Giant-killer. [6]
Now I don't want to sass such famous littery people, but you see they kind of forced me. [5]
Virginia, you know, used to be famous for its good living, and Maryland was simply unapproachable for good cooking. [4]
The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the Club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner. [2]
Holwell was an unselfish man, a man of the most generous impulses; he lived and died famous for these fine and rare qualities; yet when he found out what was happening to that unwatched sleeve, he took the precaution to suck that one dry first. [5]
I had been twice invited to weddings in that famous room: once to the marriage of my friend Motley's daughter, then to that of Mr. Frederick Locker's daughter to Lionel Tennyson, whose recent death has been so deeply mourned. [6]
Like the famous toy of Mongolfier, it rose by means of heated air,--the fevered breath of enthusiastic ignorance,--and when this grew cool, as it always does in a little while, it collapsed and fell. [3]
There is Archias, too; there are the artists and the famous gentlemen of the Museum, the members of the Ephebi, and the priests of the great gods. [10]
And when he told us of what he hoped to gain at that place we could but account his judgment good, and wish him good speed and that he might come home from that famous Italian school a luminary of learning. [10]
We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
It was impossible to struggle against this trick of wrestling, which Laflamme had learned from a famous Cornish wrestler, in a summer spent on the English coast. [11]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
The edifice recalled to me a similar phenomenon I had once looked upon,--the famous Caffe Pedrocchi at Padua. [6]
You have only to look back to Dr. Channing's famous Baltimore discourse and remember the shrieks of blasphemy with which it was greeted, to satisfy yourself on this point. [6]
Appeal was made to him; he gave assent, and came forth arrayed for battle; but no sooner did the Frenchman glimpse his huge frame and hear his famous name but he fled away, and the French king's cause was lost. [5]
You may like to hear something of the famous Professors of Paris in the days when I was a student in the Ecole de Medicine, and following the great Hospital teachers. [6]
And too long to explain to a prejudiced audience, who can't be expected to comprehend the character of a genius, to understand the yearning of a famous man for a little quiet. [9]
He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. [5]
I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. [5]
This bar-room used to be famous for drinking and storytelling, and sometimes fighting, in old times. [6]
I once went to a church in London and heard the famous Edward Irving preach, and heard some of his congregation speak in the strange words characteristic of their miraculous gift of tongues. [6]
These words from Titian had ennobled his work; they echoed loudly in his soul, and the measure of his bliss threatened to overflow, when no less a personage than the famous Paolo Veronese, invited him to come to his studio as a pupil on Saturday. [10]
Just at this time, Pierre Abelard, who had already made himself widely famous as a rhetorician, came to found a school of rhetoric in Paris. [5]
Even at that time the long, smooth hair of the famous investigator had turned gray. [10]
At the same time it was desirable to rescue as much as possible from the flames; for it would have given his enemies a fatal hold upon him, if the famous old city of Memphis should perish by his neglect. [10]
It was not till all was still again that she recollected herself, and her determination to get the famous physician to visit her lover revived in renewed strength. [10]
We rode half through the city and through the famous "street which is called Straight" without seeing any thing, hardly. [5]
The result was three letters: the largest addressed to a famous society in London, one to a solicitor in Montreal, and one to Mr. Field, the chief factor. [11]
There have been three famous talkers in Great Britain, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists well enough for my purpose. [6]
The clairvoyant of this visit was Madame Caprell, famous in her day. [5]
We forget all this in the kindly welcome they give us to-day; for some of them are still standing and doubly famous, as we all know. [6]
He tempered off this exhibition by showing us a collection of pottery famous in England, that had belonged to the fifth duke, his father. [9]
I do not think that the ravine would be famous in a country where exposed ledges and buttressing walls of rock are common. [4]
Also came with these ye famous Shaxpur. [5]
Not one of these was famous in the great world; some were almost unknown beyond their own immediate circle. [3]
In one of these camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose career bristled with desperate adventures. [5]
By and by there was a sound of music, and soon the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria, escorted by the famous Cent Gardes, entered the enclosure. [5]
Some years ago there was a famous belle here who had the Springs at her feet, and half a dozen determined suitors. [4]
Here it is then at last, that famous city. [2]
Every one of them except one--the most famous, the most renowned--by far the most illustrious of them all--Shakespeare! [5]
Then he gave them an account of the famous moon-hoax which came out, he believed, in 1835. [6]
The famous Globe Theatre, which was built in 1599, was burned in 1613, and in the fire it is supposed were consumed Shakespeare's manuscripts of his plays. [4]
Too many of the world's famous buildings fail of one chief virtue--harmony; they are made up of a methodless mixture of the ugly and the beautiful; this is bad; it is confusing, it is unrestful. [5]
This was not the white horse which Mr. Thomas Hughes has made famous, but one of much less archaic aspect and more questionable history. [6]
We stopped at the very same inn which the famous old robber-knight and rough fighter Goetz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity in the Square Tower of Heilbronn between three hundred and fifty and four hundred years ago. [5]
The ceilings of the two rooms of state were moulded with medallion-portraits and rustic figures, such as may have been seen by many readers in the famous old Philipse house,--Washington's head-quarters,--in the town of Yorkers. [6]
Long afterward, when the two men met in Europe, the publisher said to the now rich and famous author: "Mr. Clemens, my one claim on immortality is that I declined your first book. [5]
In pursuit of the terrier she drove madly through Leith, which, as everybody knows, is a famous colony of rich summer residents. [9]
Not long after the tableau performance had made Myrtle Hazard's name famous in the school and among the friends of the scholars, she received the very flattering attention of a call from Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, of 24 Carat Place. [6]
He can see the spot where the Horatii and the Curatii fought their famous battle. [5]
Dr. Hamel was the Russian gentleman of the party which made the ascent at the time of the famous disaster. [5]
After her came the river-god Nile, the bridegroom of the marriage, studied from the famous statue carried away from Alexandria by the Romans: a splendid and mighty bearded man, resting against an urn. [10]
The stimulus which the Queen could expect from Wolf Hartschwert was certainly far less deep and varied; yet to him who, as a knight, belonged to her train, she granted many favours which she denied the famous Gombert. [10]
The head of the Museum, who bore the title of "high priest," had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the intellectual life of the capital. [10]
Above it is the mountain of Heiligenberg, from the other side of which one looks off toward Darmstadt and the famous road, the Bergstrasse. [4]
It was in the midst of this work that he adopted the name which he was to make famous throughout the world. [5]
Finally Erasistratus persuaded the matron, who seemed to have forgotten her previous exhaustion, to share the consultation, but the convalescent's heart throbbed faster as he watched the famous leeches. [10]
He showed me the King's Mews above Charing Cross, and the famous theatre in the Haymarket, and we had but turned the corner into Piccadilly when he cried excitedly at a passing chariot: "There, Mr. Carvel, there go my Lord North and Mr. [9]
This project, by the help of Captain Martin, he again quieted and at last set forward on his famous voyage into the country of Powhatan and Pocahontas. [4]
Behind these came the Grand Staff, all our great generals and famous names, and everybody was eager to get a sight of them. [5]
Dr. John Jeffries, the first of that name, is considered by Broussais as a leader of medical opinion in America, and so referred to in his famous "Examen des Doctrines Medicales. [3]
With respect to the figures in the famous Egyptian caves of Abou-Simbel, M. Pouchet says ('The Plurality of the Human Races,' Eng. [1]
It was in the famous summer of 1876, too, that Mark was putting the finishing touches to Tom Sawyer. [5]
Thyone had informed the famous scientist of everything which she knew from Hermon, and had learned of the last period of his life through Bias. [10]
Here, too, is the famous Sacrament House of honest old Adam Kraft, the most exquisite thing I ever saw in stone. [4]
Master Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famous Nuremberg goldsmith, had addressed them to her in the imperial apartments, where he had listened to her singing the day before. [10]
And that is the famous Kittery Navy-yard! [4]
Adrian listened to the famous doctor with mouth wide open. [10]
I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont (where it is only two or three miles wide. [5]

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