It is still a famous school.
Daniel Webster lived to become a famous orator and a great statesman.
PANJDEH, or Penjdeh, a village of Russian Turkestan, rendered famous by "the Panjdeh scare" of 1885.
I will tell you another story of the same brave and famous king.
The famous caves of Beit Jibrin honeycomb the hills all round.
Not seen Duport--the famous dancer?
It's a famous author named Miss Gladys Turnbull.
He is famous all over the world.
He was the builder of a famous and beautiful city called Bagdad.
He lived two hundred years ago, and was famous for his courage in defending his country.
"Wow. You really are famous," she said, surprised.
Amritsar is famous for its carpet-weaving industry.
He became one of the most famous scholars in the world.
Here it is then at last, that famous city.
The central feature of the estate is a château (375 X 150 ft.) of French Renaissance design, after the famous chateau at Blois, France.
He grew up to become a famous man and one of our greatest orators.
Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.
Having the world's best neurologist on call was one of the perks of the rich and famous, a world unfamiliar to her except that her sister had been gunning for it since her sixteenth birthday.
He was too much absorbed in observing the famous man's personality.
The most famous remains of the ancient city are the temples, the most important of which form a row along the low cliffs at the south end of the city.
Prince Andrew had never before heard Speranski's famous laugh, and this ringing, high-pitched laughter from a statesman made a strange impression on him.
Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
The name was then given to the famous revolutionary song, composed in 1792, the tune of which, and the wild dance which accompanied it, may have also been brought into France by the Piedmontese.
There is a museum of natural history; the collection is reminiscent of the famous naturalist Gilbert White, of Selborne in this vicinity.
So he writes the famous order of the day to General Bennigsen:
He was eight years old when he heard about the ride of Paul Revere and the famous fight at Lexington.
The academy at Exeter was a famous school for preparing boys for college.
The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
There was another famous artist whose name was Parrhasius. When he heard of the boast which Zeuxis had made, he said to himself, "I will see what I can do."
The most famous of these was the Oracle at Delphi.
Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a true Gascon) and says: 'I don't recognize the world-famous Austrian discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!'
My dear, do I have the honor of finally meeting the famous psychic tipster or were you but the helper of the young mother who died so suddenly in that delightful New Hampshire town?
She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.
Lastly, Archimedes is credited with the famous Cattle-Problem enunciated in the epigram edited by G.
When I was young, I would aspire to be a famous actress.
He was our most famous president.
One of these myths is the famous story of Ishtar's descent to Irkalla or Aralu, as the lower world was called, and her reception by her sister who presides over it; the other is the story of Nergal's offence against Ereshkigal, his banishment to the kingdom controlled by the goddess and the reconciliation between Nergal and Ereshkigal through the latter's offer to have Nergal share the honours of the rule over Irkalla.
Dupin de Francueil, a farmer-general of the revenue, who married the widow of Count Horn, a natural son of Louis XV., she in her turn being the natural daughter of Maurice de Saxe, the most famous of the many illegitimate children of Augustus the Strong, by the lovely countess of Konigsmarck.
Agostino (1280-1298) contains a famous series of seventeen frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, with scenes from the life of St Augustine (1463-1467).
Christianity was introduced in the 5th century, and Aran soon became one of the most famous island-resorts of religious teachers and ascetics.
The minority, among whom were prominent Ca" "pals Rauscher and Schwarzenberg, Hefele, bishop of Rotterdam (the historian of the councils) Cardinal Mathieu, Mgr Dupanloup, Mgr Maret, &c., &c., did not pretend to deny the papal infallibility; they pleaded the inopportuneness of the definition and brought forward difficulties mainly of an historical order, in particular the famous condemn ion of Pope Honorius by the 6th ecumenical council of Const: ntinople in 680.
In 1698 Collier produced his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage...
But he is chiefly famous for his History of the Church of Rome to the Pontificate of Innocent III.
The beer of Schweidnitz has long been famous under the name of "Schwarze Schdps," and in the 16th century it was exported as far as Italy.
Once upon a time there was a famous Arab whose name was Al Mansur.
In France there once lived a famous man who was known as the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy his mother called him Gilbert.
He became famous as one of the bravest and best of the generals who fought to make our country free.
The stranger's name was Cimabue.[Footnote: Cimabue (_pro_. she ma boo'a).] He was the most famous painter of the time.
His father hoped that Daniel would grow up to be a wise and famous man.
When eight years of age he was the best scholar at the famous school at Harrow.
When Otanes was twelve years old, his parents wished to send him to a distant city to study in a famous school that was there.
The sailors agreed; for they were anxious to hear the musician whose songs were famous all over the world.
In England there was once a famous abbey, called Whitby.
The famous men of whom I have told you in this story are commonly called the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay entitled "The End of History?" which became the catchphrase of the day.
This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap.
Karay was a shaggy old dog with a hanging jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided.
These guests--the famous Count Rostopchin, Prince Lopukhin with his nephew, General Chatrov an old war comrade of the prince's, and of the younger generation Pierre and Boris Drubetskoy--awaited the prince in the drawing room.
Balaga was a famous troyka driver who had known Dolokhov and Anatole some six years and had given them good service with his troykas.
At that time a famous joke of Ermolov's was being circulated, that as a great favor he had petitioned the Emperor to make him a German.
It was famous in Greek mythology, and is frequently mentioned by the great poets, especially by Sophocles.
Rienzi's life and fate have formed the subject of a famous novel by Bulwer Lytton, of an opera by Wagner and of a tragedy by Julius Mosen.
The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and Pindar.
From early days Bolton was famous for its woollen manufactures.
The famous political preacher, Henry Sacheverell, held the living early in the 18th century.
Is Ashestiel, where Sir Walter Scott resided from 1804 to 1812, where he wrote his most famous poems and began Waverley, and which he left for Abbotsford.
After a few years the father quarrelled with the Russian government, and went to England, where he obtained a professorship of natural history and the modern languages at the famous nonconformist academy at Warrington.
In 1760 the elder Rousseau established here the famous press of the Encyclopaedists.
The buildings for which it is famous all belong to the first two centuries of its existence.
In 1781 he married Manon Jeanne Phlipon (1754-1793), and the name of Madame Roland is famous in history.
Otanes, in time, became one of the famous men of his country.
Listen, and I will tell you of the famous dark day in Connecticut.
Against the attendant abuses the Augustinian monk Martin Luther posted (31st October 1517) on the church door at Wittenberg his famous ninety-five theses, which were the signal for widespread revolt against the church.
But all I can learn of their conclusions amounts to just this, that "Cato and Brister pulled wool"; which is about as edifying as the history of more famous schools of philosophy.
The other day at the Apraksins' I heard a lady asking, 'Is that the famous Prince Andrew?'
She'd laughed hard when he murmured to her about famous last words.
Roman milestones and aqueducts also are found, and close by the now famous tomb of Apollophanes, with wall-paintings of animals and other ornamentation, was discovered in 1902; a description of it will be found in Thiersch and Peters, The Marissa Tombs, published by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
S There is no authentic history for the intervening period; the famous " pergamene d'Arborea," published by P. Martini in 1863 at Cagliari, have been shown to be modern forgeries.
The famous million dollar highway, which climbed three mountain passes before ending seventy-odd miles later in Durango, was spectacular by anyone's definition, more so after a fresh winter snow.
His lectures and poems had now made him famous, and he was summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector Maximilian I.
The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated, it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods, surpassing the clangor of the goose and the hooting of the owl; and then imagine the cackling of the hens to fill the pauses when their lords' clarions rested!
This passing fancy was succeeded by a serious attachment, the object of which was the famous "Cynthia."
Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne--he pronounced it Bugine--which my informant used to borrow.
He was famous as a lawyer and statesman.
Jonathan Swift, often called Dean Swift, was famous as a writer on many subjects.
