Famous

Examples

• Famous clients of ours that got us a world of credit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A cadet of the house was an officer of the great Duke and distinguished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A great party of us were on deck smoking and making a noise, and waiting to see famous Scylla and Charybdis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The famous Cassendi was, in the beginning of his life, a professor in the university of Aix. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And 'this,' Betteredge, means my uncle Herncastle's famous Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the judges, a group of famous scientific men, and the Emperor’s suite for audience, Bell went to the transmitter at the other end of the wire, while Dom Pedro put the receiver to his ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flush a tiger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The famous Blondin was going to perform on a tightrope in another part of the garden. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of this law the famous geometrical figure or number is the expression. Plato. The Republic.
• Fulton was now forty-two years old, and famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We will take a passenger from another famous ship, and call him Ulysses, the craftiest of the Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Gentlemen, he cried, let me introduce you to the famous black pearl of the Borgias. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Drifting after a time from Louisville, Edison made his way as far north as Detroit, but, like the famous Duke of York, soon made his way back again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Indeed it was from this famous family, as it appears, that Miss Sharp, by the mother's side, was descended. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Osborne's butler came to buy some of the famous port wine to transfer to the cellars over the way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Agnes was very cheerful; and laughingly predicted that I should soon become too famous to be talked to, on such subjects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The theatre of Pumpernickel is known and famous in that quarter of Germany. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Long ago, when he had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Green eyes, fair skin, pretty figure, famous frontal development, Squills remarked. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here it reports the purging of more of thy famous Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They had many processes of dressing leather; and their work was famous throughout Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is a famous question discussed in one of the earlier Dialogues of Plato (Protagoras; AriSt. Nic. Plato. The Republic.
• It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles; he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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