A beautifully wooded cliff rising high above the broad rapids of the Ribble near the house has great local notoriety under the name of Pudsay's Leap.
The little trout stream of former days, though still almost everywhere in the full enjoyment of its pristine simplicity, has acquired a quite curious notoriety through its strategetic importance in the national military manoeuvres.
Burke had already acquired some notoriety by an altercation with Sheriff McCleary on the occasion of the Sheriff's last visit to Homestead before the arrival of the troops.
He had acquired unpleasant notoriety by reducing wages in the coke regions, and by crushing the labor insurrections which followed by the employment of Pinkerton detectives and even by calling in the state militia.
Then the notoriety that follows me precludes the privacy I desire, and renders me an object of curiosity, which is a continual source of irritation to my feelings.
He attached himself to the ultra-radicals, and puffed himself into notoriety by swimming against the stream.
But the broad notoriety of Ascalon attended to this, bringing with the outlawed and debased a fresh and eager train of victims.
The railroad immigration agent has been trying to locate a colony of Mennonites here," Judge Thayer said, "fifty families or more of them, but the notoriety of the town made the elders skittish.
With the rush of the passenger train from the east Seth Craddock would make his dramatic entry, in true color with his violent notoriety and prominence in the cast.
Ascalon, in those early days of its history, was not very large in either the territory covered or the inhabitants numbered, but it was a town of national notoriety in spite of its size.
Notoriety has turned his head, notoriety seems to put a halo around him that makes a troop of sycophants look up to him as a saint.
So, one can image what character the town had in St. Louis, and guess at the extent of its notoriety in Pittsburg and Buffalo.
Morgan thought it was a very wise regulation for a town where perils were said to be so thick, all in keeping with the notoriety of Ascalon.
To these men the wide notoriety of the town was capital.
Here's a piece two columns long about that scoundrel in the Kansas City Times--the notoriety of the town is obscured by the bloody reputation of its marshal.
This historical novel stands out bright and pleasing, because of the mystery and notoriety of several of the actors, the tender love scenes, descriptions of the different localities, and the struggles of the settlers.
The ladies of the Carewe family have not formerly acquired a notoriety of that kind.
Those Endearing Young Charms" It is a matter not ofnotoriety but of the happiest celebrity that Mrs. Tanberry danced that night, and not only that she danced, but that she waltzed.
They are utterly without fame, utterly nameless; but if fame implied only notoriety then infamous would possess no marked significance.
Yet how comes it that we have attained to an almost special notoriety for converting our sorrows into silver, and making our personal injuries into a credit at our banker's?
She is a handy vessel and well commanded, and the notoriety of her presence will not be without a useful effect.
Another case of the kind that has had medico-legal notoriety was tried a few years ago before a court in Brittany.
His first admittance into the select coterie of these men of the world was formed at the house of Bachelor Bill, a person of great notoriety among that portion of the elite which emphatically entitles itself "Flash.
Assume a greater state, and you will be more talked of; and notoriety wins a woman's heart more than beauty or youth.
He is a daring notoriety seeker, and this is rare sport for him.
Still, if you will enjoy the comment, the notoriety that he may be generous enough to share with you, I can say no more.
He would have bitterly suffered at the hands of women, of one especially, a treacherous actress, in love with deceit, notorietyand money.
Yet they still held themselves in hand, out of the respect which notoriety inspires in the minds of uncultured people.
Her story was a fabrication, inspired undoubtedly by the notoriety it would give her through the Cherokee nation, where the name of Younger was widely known, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
I do not desire to stand upon the basis of the notoriety which the past record of my life may have earned for me.
He'll stir up a lot of notoriety and present a bill; and you'll be no wiser than you were before.
This gave it more local notoriety than it might otherwise have attained, so that, as I learn, one ingenious person made use of its title as an advertisement to a production of his own.
I am glad particularly of notoriety in England because I see with what daily increasing power England's opinion is to act on this country.
I am glad of anything which gives notoriety to the book, because it is a plea for the dumb and the helpless!
The name he had just heard had a terrible notoriety at the time, not only in France but in Italy as well.
Let us trace rapidly the history of Derues' early years, effaced and forgotten in the notoriety of his death.
Nancy probably went away to get out of all the disagreeable notoriety that you've got into.
There are men rising in this land, whose fame shall outlive the petty notorietyof its princes.
He has been of some notoriety at court; though that was before my time; and I've only heard of it from others.
It is of sufficient notoriety that the earliest instruments of excellence, bearing the name of Violin, as well as the earliest players of eminence, were Italian.
None sooner than the Parisians can draw the line between factitious notoriety and honest fame; or sooner distinguished between the counterfeit celebrity and the standard reputation.
