To take an instance much to the point, Virgil was a learned poet, famous for his antiquarian erudition, and professedly imitating and borrowing from Homer.
The Homeric poems describe an age later than that of the famous tombs--so rich in relics--of the Mycenaean acropolis, and earlier than the tombs of the Dipylon of Athens.
Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied resemblance to an old-school Southern gentleman, whose fine estate and old family are famous in the region.
The presentment of life in the famous military academy whence so many heroes have graduated is realistic and enjoyable.
He was not a natural mathematician, and in working out his most difficult problems he sought the assistance of Mentor Graham, a famous schoolmaster in those days, who had previously assisted Lincoln in his studies.
Lincoln had the rare and valuable faculty of putting the most sublime feeling into his speeches; and he never found it necessary to incumber his wisest, wittiest and most famous sayings with a weakening mass of words.
Nasby," whose political satires were quite famous in their day.
I began to read those famous works, and I had plenty of time; for during the long summer days, when the farmers were busy with their crops, my customers were few and far between.
Before Lincoln was ever heard of as a lawyer or politician, he was famous as a story teller.
Chase in regard to the Emancipation Proclamation, and incorporated it in that famous document.
This discussion was the forerunner of the famous joint-debate between Lincoln and Douglas, which took place some years later and attracted the attention of the people throughout the United States.
This attitude of the President of the Confederate States of America led to the promulgation of President Lincoln's famous "Order No.
It was in this fight that our own famous and gallant regiment, the "Princess Pats," was decimated, sustaining a loss of over 700 men.
In appearance these guns are the last in the world to give one the impression of supreme efficiency; when we saw them coming down the road we wondered what they could be and were amazed when informed that they were the famous .
At one spot is the famous Hell's Corner, so named because of the fierce fire that continually rained upon it, and here I counted 40 dead horses, as fine looking animals as ever were harnessed.
He studied here under famous teachers, and gave three years to the pursuit of law, of which he was very fond as literary material, though he refused to practise.
He himself was almost girlish, with his fair complexion and light, wavy hair, so that the famous sketch by Maclise has a remarkable charm; yet nobody could really say with truth that any one of the three girls was beautiful.
As for Musset, whose heart she was supposed to have broken, within a year he was dangling after the famous singer, Mme.
He had won honors at the university, and now, as assistant to the famous Dr.
It was immediately after she had lightened his burdens that the real Balzac comes before us in certain stories which have no equal, and which are among the most famous that he ever wrote.
For though Honore de Balzac was now one of the most famous writers of his time, his home was still a den of suffering.
From the sturdy strain which came to him from the blacksmith he, perhaps, derived that sledge-hammer power with which he wrote many of his most famous chapters, and which he used in newspaper controversies with his critics.
In like manner he wrote, on leaving her, that famous epigram: It is only the last love of a woman that can satisfy the first love of a man.
After the conquest of Canada, there was a general uprising of the Indian tribes, led by the famous Pontiac, against the British forts and settlements.
In 1760 the famous Diderot met him at Paris, cheerful and full of anecdote, though wretchedly shattered by his wounds.
At length, in 1759, the year of Wolfe's famous victory at Quebec, General Prideaux was sent to reduce it.
The remarkable organization of the brigade, famous for its leaders, famous for the bravery and skill of its men, and famous for the number and variety of its efficient appliances, has been a growth of comparatively few years.
This record is given by Caspar Schott, a Jesuit, and tells of an engine constructed by Hautsch of Nuremberg, a city long famous for mechanical contrivances.
Several cities in the States are, indeed, famous for their well-organized and well-equipped fire departments.
I stood one Christmas Eve in the cold midnight wind, waiting for the church doors to open for the night mass, the famous misa del gallo.
The famous matador, Paco Montes, fervently believed in an amulet he carried, and in the invocation of Our Lord of the True Cross.
Besides the home resources, a man on horseback was sent off to fetch a famous veterinary who chanced to be staying at a neighbouring station, and they both returned before Star's worst sufferings began.
Even before the famous Maungatapu murders in 1866, swaggers were looked upon with distrust on the West Coast, and after that date hardly any one travelled in those parts without carrying a small revolver in his breast-pocket.
The first duty of a stranger at Raven Agency is to visit the famous battlefield, three miles away; and the Agent, an army officer, very charmingly made up a horseback party to escort us there.
Green, a man of the region, was the driver and cook, and we had as guest a famous bear hunter from the Sierra Nevadas.
Van Anden, a famous 'cutter out,' whatever that meant, was deputed to have an especially watchful eye upon me.
One of these famous old ticket punchers upon the Rome road lived at the Woodruff House, in Watertown, throughout the seventies.
As an earnest of his interest in this route he established, almost as soon as he had acquired control of the Rome road, the once-famous White Mountain Express.
On one memorable occasion he came to the office of William Buchanan, the veteran Motive Power Superintendent of the New York Central, who designed and built the famous No.
Still another of this famous quintette to whom the running of a 650 mile railroad division was as but part of a day's work--James H.
Whilst even the famous four-in-hands of its English predecessor might hardly hope to do better than was done on this early road of our own North Country.
DeKalb Junction also had a famous hotel which for many years "fed" the trains and "fed" them well.
Dunton into those of Silas Snell, Watertown's most famous cornet player of that generation.
She came to the North Country as the Chicopee from the Springfield Locomotive Works, and with her came, as engineer and fireman, respectively, the famous Haynes brothers, Orville and Rhett.
That was before the days of the famous Dewey episode at Manila, but the emergency at the moment must have seemed quite as great.
The situation was saved for it by a New York banking house, Vermilye & Company, who sent a lawyer up to Watertown who examined the famous contract and pronounced it perfectly valid.
The steamers of this once famous line played no small part in the development of the North Country.
The famous Crossmon House at Alexandria Bay was already more than two decades old.
In later years there were to come those famous Mogul twins, the Samson and the Goliath.
Her face was of that beauty which once made famous the Roumanian women, but which is rarely found to-day, for it has degenerated through the mingling of foreign blood.
One is a show girl, famous in the way such girls become famous in a New York season, vastly prosperous (if one may judge by appearances), yet with a prosperity founded upon the capitalization of youth and amazing loveliness of person.
Mr. Zahn himself has done some famous bindings, and books bound by him are to be found in some of the finest private libraries in the land.
When the Don's young widow remarried, she and her husband were pursued by a charivari lasting three days and three nights--the most famous charivari in the history of a city widely noted for these detestable functions.
Once I asked one of the famous Washington correspondents what manner of man Mr. Daniels was.
The town was only occupied by patrols, who had orders to secure the German right (Von Kluck's army), which was executing its famous flanking movement.
So it is also with Othello, taken from an Italian romance, the same also with the famous Hamlet.
Chaucer's famous circle of story-tellers at the Tabard Inn in Southwark was eminently democratic.
We are 'University' boys to reinforce the famous 'Princess Pats,' and I believe it is the quickest way over.
Our first brigade appeared on the scene and the line was strengthened, and then the Buffs, the famous English regiment, came up at the double after having marched miles from another part of the line.
Many of my experiences I have omitted on account of space, but I am proud to have belonged to a famous regiment, "The Princess Pats.
I had heard all about the famous "Pats" and was of course glad that I was to be one of them.
I quickly informed him that we were the famous Scottish Rifles, the old 90th of Foot who had made a reputation in previous wars, and who intended to keep up the reputation made by knocking Hell out of the Germans on every possible occasion.
The no less famous cirque de l'Impératrice was razed in 1900.
The name refers to a famous duel fought here at the break of day on a memorable morning in 1743.
Temple palace, is the hôtel de Cagliostro, the famous sorcerer.
The famouspoem was published lower down in the same street.
In Rue Saulnier, recording the name of another famous family of gardeners, we see at No.
The short Rue de la Grande Chaumière, opened in 1830 as Rue Chamon, memorizes by its present name a famous Latin quarter dancing-hall close by.
Both Unionists and Liberals have shown their appreciation of the situation, and so have two of the most famous Socialist leaders.
Here are the words which were put into the mouth of Guentz, the representative of the younger school, in Beyerlein's famous novel: "The organisation of the German army rested upon foundations which had been laid a hundred years ago.
As a famous soldier, it is impossible to believe that he was not in touch with the General Staff, and he outlines a policy which has some reason, therefore, to be looked upon as an official one.
Such, in condensed form, is the general thesis and forecast of thisfamous German officer.
There is no attempt to conceal or palliate this painful fact, that the famous Apostle of the Gentiles had been a persecutor, the deadliest enemy of the Church in its infant days.
Paul will employ it too; and will give his own reading of the famous story of Ishmael and Isaac.
His maxim is far removed from that expressed in the famous couplet of Pope: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Indeed the three famous Pillars of the Jewish Church at this time openly acknowledged Paul's equality with Peter in the Apostleship, and resigned to his direction the Gentile province.
His famous Commentary summoned enslaved Christendom to recover "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.
They made the passage of the lower Danube by daylight, so it was possible for them to see every phase of the wonderful river before it was wedded to the famous Black Sea.
As to the smoke, Pittsburgh's most famous because most obvious drawback, the subject has in the last two years been tackled bravely by the Chamber of Commerce.
At the close of the letter of removal, the governor added a now famous postscript, "I was not bribed.
Every one has heard of Gammer Gurton; Gaffer Gingerbread was also famous in, as well as I can remember, a portion of the literature which amused my childhood.
The little wayside inn at Llanverres, rendered famous by the genius of the painter Wilson, is still standing in its original position, on the left-hand of the road as you pass through that village to Ruthin.
Cristobal Caballuco, the son of the famous Caballuco whom you will remember in the last war, though suffering from a wound in the arm, how or when received is not known, commanded them.
I am delighted to hear it, for since they came into my possession these famous lands have never brought me a penny.
No one who had read her famous novel could doubt that.
The 1st-5th have always been famous for their dressiness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "famous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
