How To Use Famous In A Sentence

This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
Qiao Gong Fang Gems is a professional supplier of high-quality jewelry gemstones in Wuzhou which famous known as "the capital of artificial gem in the world".

Church of Constantinople was still strong, as is shown by the great work of S. Theodore of the S.udium, famous as a hymn-writer, a liturgiologist, and a defender of the faith. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
The Irish actor was as famous for his varied movie roles as his drinking and womanising.
The other cheese beloved in Savoie, the smelly, oozing reblochon, is the star of a Savoyard specialty: the famous tartiflette. Savoie the Fair
The famous boxer killed a fierce wolf with his bare hands.
This famous Jew boogie can shape your bootie in no time. Carin Davis: Cardio Hora: The New Jewish Fitness Fad
New love has a famous family name. The Sun
Lily : A famous land agent said that the young people shouldn't afford an apartment.
She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
Probably the most famous example of this, and also a good illustrative case, is the "green revolution" in agriculture. Science, Technology, and Social Change
She was pared with a famous movie star.
One club rejected her application for membership on the grounds that she was too famous. Times, Sunday Times
So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys. Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets?
The leading aviators became as famous as sports stars and Hollywood actors.
Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
Within seconds, the celebrity and his famous partner were named across social media. The Sun
Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
It's a world where dinosaurs are your next door neighbours, and where some of the most famous feuds in history where actually territorial disputes between apatosaurs bearing grudges... Susanna Clarke in the NY Times
With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of. Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
It may be a while before he flashes that famously photogenic toothy smile again. The Sun
A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain. Neth Space
In his famous "antinomies", he proved four propositions: first, that the universe is limitless in time and space; second, that matter is composed of simple, indivisible elements; third, that free will is impossible; and fourth, that there must be an absolute or first cause. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
Bush didn't use this power because he had no interest in impeding the BPP, which was infamous for rubber-stamping executions. The Texas Clemency Memos
I'm Tom, a 57 year-old single dad of a 14 year old boy living now aux alentours de DÃ©troit, that famous French city ! Joyeux - French Word-A-Day
What is news is that from the very beginning, biggety ivory-tower academics have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. [Help] Most Recent Posts
In the 16th century, English mastiffs were famous for their courage and ferocity as war dogs, and were used in Spanish armies both in Europe and America.
A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
This was the genesis of the famous gopurams, or entrance gateways of the temple cities of the south.
The town boasts a world-famous art gallery.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939- ) is a prestigious contemporary Canadian woman writer, poet, and critic with international reputation and she is famous for her prolificacy and experimental techniques.
Actually, they call it "pranked," and you probably think I'm talking about famous Canadian-born SNL producer Lorne Michaels, but no, no, no ... or should I say "non, non, non? The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
His most famous pupil was the Athenian politician Demetrius of Phalerum, through whose influence he, though a metic (resident foreigner), was allowed to own property.
Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
SG: This is our most famous computer: it’s a laptop that was rescued from the bottom of the Amazon River. Dropped Your Powerbook in a Volcano? No Problem « Snarkmarket
The young man worked hard in emulation of his famous father.
Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.
He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
After the famous New York trial of her boyfriend and pimp Mickey Jelke, "the oleo-margarine heir," the former call girl Pat Ward had quietly married an osteopath and they lived in Hollywood, Florida. An Interview with Gail Godwin about her novel Queen of the Underworld, and her memoir The Making of a Writer, both published in early 2006.
As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
Get to know the town and the hilly surroundings famous for their tannery, wood carving and furriery.
He looks downcast, a frown passing like a cloud over his famously large forehead.
The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
It saw famous darts players team up with members of the public to win cash. The Sun
Much of this "pleasurist" writing is now lost to us, known only from police accounts or the bibliographical records of the famous collector of erotica H.S. Ashbee. Undefined
Serena, in particular, has caused a stir with her black studded tennis ensembles, the black Shox Boots from her Nike collection and the infamous black cat suit that was roundly deemed bootylicious.
Home to cultural and architectural wonders and famous for its fine white china, the German city of Dresden still shone despite six years of war.
‘I'd like to be a famous rock star with a million zillions of dollars,’ she says.
It is one of the oldest pubs in the country and a favourite haunt of the rich and famous who mingle with the locals over a pint - or a royal gin and tonic.
While the far west may have the more vicious winter temperatures, often subceeding minus 40 degrees C, the northeast is infamous for its radically changeable winter atmospherics.
He does recall being presented with a compendium of his most famous sayings. Times, Sunday Times
HIS famous catchphrase may be'very clear'. The Sun
It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
I've seen too many friends who are famous who live strange lives. Times, Sunday Times
Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas. Home | The New York Observer
One hint could have been that his nomination brought immediate praise from both industry groups and Congressional republicans) and the topper of them all Bush sicophant Stephen Johnson (who famously sided with Buah and big industry in hampering states from enforcing higher greenhouse emmision standards and stifling his own Depts requests and reports on environmental problems). Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 8, 2010
A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
He was too cunning to mention the work directly in the famous books he went on to write. Times, Sunday Times
And here, in the Ramesseum, I found campaniform, or lotus-flower capitals on the columns -- here where Rameses once perhaps dreamed of his Syrian campaigns, or of that famous combat when, "like The Spell of Egypt
Many people are now asking why he would do such a thing, blaming his famous ego for getting the better of him, as it has before.
In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for. The Guardian World News
Gustav, though, would have learned little from the post's most famous survivor-a buckskin gelding named Comanche.
The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh , a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus" . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
At least I still remember how to make my grandmother's infamous "sweetish" meatballs. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
Most generally, Locke had argued famously that real essences are unknowable.
Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, roundabout way - ‘No.’
The idea is perhaps extrapolated - wrongly - from his famous Interpretation of music of 1954.
It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
The third class of ordnance included the guns firing stone projectiles, such as the pedrero (or perrier, petrary, cannon petro, etc.), the mortars, and the old bombards like Edinburgh Castle's famous Mons Meg. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
Obviously, being one of the most famous Indians in the world didn't help Naipaul curry favour with Indian babudom bent on mindless application of rules. The Times of India
At 27, he's already a giant among local comic artists - and not just because of his large frame and infamously squeaky voice.
Hundreds of people attended the famous director's farewell concert.
She is a pole dancer at London's famous Spearmint Rhino club.
Mr Greenspan is famously hard to interpret, and the motivation for his rate cut will no doubt remain unclear for now.
The book on which he hit on my desk was one of the famous novels written by Jack London.
In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world. To Ski Or Not To Ski
Enter James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's infamous real-life mole-hunter. Books: Life In The Spy Business
He is infamous throughout the village for his bitter temperament and quickness to anger.
In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint. Kimberly Brooks: Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion
De Vos was famous around Berkeley for what he labeled his free-wheeling extra-curricular "bootleg" seminars-which he held in the little WWII vintage green bungalow across from Kroeber Hall-as well as in his gracious Berkeley Hills home. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
The bouillabaisse, the famous fish soup that originated in Marseilles, was a real treat.
A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters. Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See
One guy who sings in a famous punk band in Seattle did a special song in our church. Christianity Today
His full schedule leads him around the world, partnering some of the most famous singers of our time.
Snow sculpture fans make plans to head for Sapporo and its famous snow festival.
The H-23 is famous for the excessive motion of its cyclic.
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and less stories about the rich and famous.
Ricky Ricardo is a famous orchestra leader and singer working out of the Tropicana Club in New York City.
Another “famous” quote from my alma mater is “where the men are men, and so are the women” … See also: The engineering department.
Andy Warhol's pictures of soup cans are a famous example of pop art.
Indeed Archimedes was famous for his application of the law of the lever to the construction of catapults for military purposes.
The famous star Celine was huzzahed before she opened her mouth.
Then there's the famous glow-in-the-dark rabbit, created by an artist using a fluorescent jellyfish gene.
The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have. Birthday Boy
The most frequently quoted remark was one made by the great English engineer Robert Stephenson, builder of the famous Britannia railroad bridge, a tubular iron bridge, over the Menai Strait the trains ran through a succession of enormous iron boxes set on stone piers. The Great Bridge
Sima Qian is a famouse historian, literati and editor.
Over my shoulder you see some of those famous high-rise condos that you see along south Florida's coast.
He drew from his pocket a sheet of folded paper and placed upon the end of his nose his famous gold 'lorgnon': "It is very trifling, one of those directives, as Monsieur de Moltke says, which serve to guide operations, a plan of action which we will modify after discussion. Cosmopolis — Complete
Carved on the lobstick of the Landing were many names famous in the annals of this region, Pike, Maltern, McKinley, Munn, Tyrrel among them. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
Combine this with the effort by South Carolina Republicans to tar the state's Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen with now-infamous accidental candidate Alvin Greene and I think you're seeing conservatives get revenge for a year of being painted as allies of "birtherism" and conspiracies about the president. Embracing the crazy
The Holmenkollen ski jumping board is one of the most famous symbols of Oslo.
As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
Depart the Bay Area for Monterey Bay, visit Fisherman's Wharf and the Cannery Row, made famous by writer John Steinbeck.
In a further attempt to remind drivers of their responsibilities, the radio station broadcasts messages from famous musicians.
It's refreshing when you see a trainer stick with a lesser-known jockey if more famous backsides are available to sit on their best horses. The Sun
Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria.
It's very much the sort of thing you assign students as a practice run, like reshooting, shot for shot, a famous scene.
Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association and Britain's most famous crop trasher, who famously pulled up six-and-a-half acres of GM maize in 1999, says that £20m of taxpayers 'money has gone into GM crop research since 1997, despite the fact that not a single crop is grown in the UK. Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right
The city itself is home to one of NASCAR's classic speedways that plays host to one of its most famous races, the Coke 600.
Most famous of his costume wardrobe was his Yuletide disguise as a full Christmas tree complete with lights.
It is less a history than a survey of the usage of photojournalism as practiced by the famous and the obscure.
In agriculture, Iraqis are working hard to revive their once famous date palm industry.
The International Republican Institute, which received $248 million in total between 2004 and 2009 to support governance, political participation and civil society programs in Iraq, made questionable decisions -- such as overpaying for security services from Blackwater, the infamous military contractor, and spending $690,000 on vehicles without approval from the government -- according to a new audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction (SIGIR). International Republican Institute's Use Of U.S. Grants Criticized By Watchdog
Owned by descendants of the original lessees who took up the station - sight unseen - in 1877, the famous black soil downs carry more than 60,000 cattle.
All of the famous names in Bulgarian art can be seen until the end of January.
The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
So one of the most famous merchants, called The Merchant of Venice, is encouraged to talk hopefully of his happiness when his ships come home; but he knows that ships sometimes do not come home. G.K.'s Weekly - If Matter Matters
It has become the most famous and hotly disputed California ballot measure since Proposition 13 cut property taxes in 1978.
One of GB s frontmen is DJ Danger Mouse, famous for his Grey Album, wherein he mashed up the Beatles 'White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album. Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives
During the war, when he was the most famous journalist in London, he had a series of affairs with refugee women living out the war in the bombed-out city.
The crowd stood and cheered when the two appeared together, Romo sporting a choppy bob instead of her famous long locks.
Perhaps the most famous creation of an isomeric compound was Wöhler's accidental synthesis of urea in 1828, when he was attempting to prepare ammonium cyanate (which he later succeeded in preparing by allowing the crystals to form at room temperature instead of by evaporating the solution). Wöhler, Friedrich
Local historians are eagerly counting down to five days of celebrations being staged for probably Chorley's most famous son.
The famous graziers and other people, how well willing soever they be taken to be, will not be known of their wealth, and by miscontentment of their loss, be grown stubborn and liberal of talk. The Reign of Mary Tudor
The postcard is from my homeland, and includes a famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi.
At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. De vita Caesarum
After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
The diamonds he watches so closely are not the rocks on the rings of the rich and famous, they are tiny grains of pure carbon coating the blades, polishers and shapers the company produces.
He wanted to be world famous, and he knew that there is no such thing as a world-famous commercial artist. Times, Sunday Times
The most famous of the Pop artists, the cult figure Andy Warhol, recreated quasi-photographic paintings of people or everyday objects.
I don't see any reason to "pussyfoot" (to quote a famous Democrat racist, George Wallace). NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Take the word bookman, B-O-O-K-M-A-N, change one letter in it and rearrange the result to name a famous person who wrote books. Fill In The Blanks
I've always said that he was either going to be famous for something or infamous for something.
One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
Tributes have been pouring in from all over the world for the famous actor who died yesterday.
You know when your waiter at a restaurant tells you that you look like somebody really famous, and you're always secretly terrified they're going to say it's Gary Busey or a "heftier" version of Macauley Culkin? Archive 2009-09-01
Every miner wishes that his mine were upon this famous lode, which is made up of a large number of quartz veins extending along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and is marked by hundreds of important mines. The Western United States A Geographical Reader
There are also regimental photographs and pictures of the famous mountains that he once climbed. Times, Sunday Times
Harrington is famously teetotal, never having let a drop of alcohol cross his lips, so it can assumed he was speaking from the heart. US Open 2011: Remarkable Rory McIlroy wins by eight shots
Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies. Peerless Titles
Qiao Gong Fang Gems is a professional supplier of high-quality jewelry gemstones in Wuzhou which famous known as "the capital of artificial gem in the world".
And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish.
The reason for this is truly mystifying as she never missed an opportunity to work with both famous and unknown singers and orchestras.
Near the hamlet of Yamanaka is a famous point, called Fuji-mi-taira (terrace for looking at Fuji). Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.
Back in Hastings, there's an Old Town Carnival Week (31 July – 8 August) with exhibitions, guided walks and the famous "seaboot" race (oldtowncarnivalweek. co.uk). B&B review | Black Rock House, Hastings
Between Dawney and Beta lieth a famous island in Orenoque (now called Baraquan, for above Meta it is not known by the name of Orenoque) which is called Athule (cataract of Ature); beyond which ships of burden cannot pass by reason of a most forcible overfall, and current of water; but in the eddy all smaller vessels may be drawn even to Peru itself. The Discovery of Guiana
A famous name might get your foot in the door, but you'd better expect to do all the hard work yourself.
Steven Hall is one of the most famous modern architects in America. His phenomenological idea and typological method are distinctive in the world.
The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
Currently most large internet systems are written in Java, which is not exactly famous for its briefness. Archive 2008-01-01
Famously, he had divorced Josephine the previous year in order to found a dynasty.
Using traditional methods, skilled craftsmen and craftswomen indulge in Basketwork, which is famous in and around Ecuador.
We head toward the thrum and trumpet call of a loud bolero and enter the bar just as the six-man combo breaks into a loud rendition of ‘Chan Chan,’ the song made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club album.
Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.” 2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
She was also famous among friends for going into the kitchen and preparing her favourite dishes, including fried caribou or clam chowder.
England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again. Times, Sunday Times
This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
One, several people mention that Paul Martin slashed funding to Health Canada, resulting in the current, infamous long waiting times. More answers
The most famous Andalusian dish is gazpacho, a cold soup made with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and olive oil.
Phobias fall under the category of anxiety disorders and describe pathological fears; while many know the term from the infamous expression "arachnophobia" pathological fear of spiders, many different types of phobias have been observed in patients. Jalees Rehman, M.D.: 'Islamophobia' Is Not A Phobia
In the first nocturn, the Church sings lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a special melody famous for its solemnity and beauty, and entirely appropriate to the text. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
It's certainly not easy for a jazz pianist famous for swing to turn over to bebop.
He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank into obscurity.
A chronicle of a hurricane unforetold in 1987 remains the most famous example of a meteorological mistake. Times, Sunday Times
At that time malwa was very famous in Kisenyi and I was responsible for spreading it all over Kampala. New Vision Frontpage News
He once famously warned the Government that British television was being turned into a two-tier system: ‘Telly for the nobs and telly for the slobs’.
Mention Saratoga Springs and its infamous race track is sure to come up. Maria Russo: Saratoga Springs: Mineral Baths, Museums And Homemade Potato Chips
Victor Chapman? The famous art dealer? I can't arrest him.
Operant conditional response is a core concept of the famous American psychologist Skinner's Neo-behaviorism theory.
The gently sloping fields overlook Tor Bay, one of those famous white Gower beaches. The 10 best campsites for food lovers
Players cowered in fear as anarchy took hold on a famous Premier League ground. The Sun
Yet it is not just the taste of the most famous piece of silverware in the club game that holds the allure of the competition for Ferguson. The Sun
One of them featured a famous photograph of a gauzy Laura Ashley skirt barely concealing the sunshine-silhouetted thighs of a kindergarten aide named Diana Spencer.
It is famously understood that Darwin used a tree diagram to represent evolutionary relationships.
Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend. Olivia
The women in her Last Supper prints are grouped in twos and threes, dressed in reds and blues, and emerge from a gloomy background in a way that echoes the famous Renaissance fresco.
A few hundred miles to the West, in the Gold Coast region, is the home of the famous "aggry" beads. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
New employees receive tote bags bearing the name of a famous list, and 15 of these have been framed and mounted on a wall. Times, Sunday Times
So, the famous drug was made from something called formicary foam. Cachalot
From its famous open pulpit in the old hospital churchyard many an inflammatory sermon had been preached. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the priapic bishop of Autun who became France's diplomat for all seasons he served and survived both the Revolution and Napoleon, famously remarked that no one who had not lived during the ancien régime could have any idea of how sweet life could be. Why They All Came to Versailles
The vestments and mitre were a gift of the Abbot to the Pope, and they are the work of Piero Montelli from Verona, perhaps the most famous, but alas famously exclusive, vestment maker and embroiderer in Italy. More from Montecassino
In fact, the residents abandoned cultivating their traditional crops like barley, maize, millet and potatoes soon after the Malana charas became famous among drug users around the world in the 1980s.
Justice Sotomayor's famous declaration — that a "wise Latina" will often come to a better judicial ruling than a white male — implies an ethnic-and-gender "essentialist" philosophy that is repugnant to Justice Kennedy's core individualism. The Decider
'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens). An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
When he finally got the chance to play in the starting eleven after David Beckham's infamous booking and injury, Owen found the back of the net in the Champions' League tie with Dynamo Kiev.
The aspirins could well be needed next Wednesday morning after a night celebrating another famous Reds win in the Cologne bierkellers.
Again this is a play about military commanders and the troubles that beset them but it also, famously, approaches the theme of civil unrest. Times, Sunday Times
Your grandfather was a famous radio personality in his day .
The pitcher is famous for the speed of his delivery.

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