Where is the poet who shares half the popularity of Warren, Turner, or Day and Martin, whose ebony fames are spread through every dirty little village in England?
Tho saw I al the half y-grave With famous folkes names fele, That had y-been in mochel wele, And hir fames wyde y-blowe.
And for to gette of Fames hyre, The temple sette I al a-fyre.
This Eolus no-wher abood Til he was come at Fames feet, And eek the man that Triton heet; And ther he stood, as still as stoon.
But in this riche lusty place, That Fames halle called was, Ful moche prees of folk ther nas, Ne crouding, for to mochil prees.
Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros=--Many more die of surfeit than of hunger.
Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt=--Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (lit.
None will recognize us as a pair whose claims To righteous judgment we care not making; Who have doubted if breath be worth the taking, And have no respect for the current fames Whence the savour has flown while abide the names.
Then all these shaken slighted visitants sped Into the vague, and left me musing there On fames that well might instance what they had said, Until the New-Year's dawn strode up the air.
How soone she leaves the pride of wealth, The flatteries of youth and health And fames more precious breath.
A [f]itter time for fames sake: two weak Nurses Would laugh at this; are there no more days coming, No ground but this to argue on?
Come Neanthes, our Fames and all are at the stake.
This has its advantages, for it keeps alive in certain localities fames that would otherwise have utterly perished.
What a triad of immortal fames they would have made.
There is a glasse of ink where you may see How to make ready black fac'd tragedy: You now discerne, I hope, through all her paintings, 115 Her gasping wrinkles andfames sepulchres.
Footnote 55: It shone lighter than a glass, And made well more than it was, To semen every thing, ywis, As kind of thinge Fames is.
Oh no: the land where hungry Fames dwelt May no wise equalize this cursed land; No, even the climate of the torrid zone Brings forth more fruit than this accursed grove.
Hath dreadful Fames with her charming rods Brought barrenness on every fruitful tree?
For certain it is, that rebels, figured by the giants, and seditious fames and libels, are but brothers and sisters, masculine and feminine.
Neither doth it follow, that because thesefames are a sign of troubles, that the suppressing of them with too much severity, should be a remedy of troubles.
As if fames were the relics of seditions past; but they are no less, indeed, the preludes of seditions to come.
The statesmen, the ecclesiastics, the jurists, look all of a like period, and stand about in stone with no more interest for the spectator than the Fames or the Britannias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fames" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
