He was universally known as the Generous Lover, and his renown is still prolonged in the persons of the many sons borne to him by Leonisa, who was a rare example of discretion, virtue, modesty, and beauty.
Never before on any other occasion did so great terror seize the senate; so powerful was the state of Clusium at the time, and so great the renown of Porsena.
Both his youth and strength, and therenown of his grandfather, stimulated his ambition.
Ancus reigned twenty-four years, equal to any of the former kings both in the arts andrenown of war and peace.
Sidenote A: It was she who caused me to test the renown of the Round Table,] [Sidenote B: hoping to grieve Guenever and cause her death through fear.
Forsooth, the renownof the Round Table is overturned by the word of one man's speech, for all tremble for dread without a blow being struck!
Sidenote F: Forsooth therenown of the Round Table is overturned 'with a word of one man's speech.
The only recreation was an occasional gathering of a few newspaper men at his rooms, for whom his aunt cooked the supper, willing and glad to do the work, because she believed he would some day come to renown from his genius.
How in that quiet home a boy should be born who had desires to win renown was a mystery.
To what honor and renown had come the humble peddler!
But what renown th' hast given his worth, 'tis fit The world should render to thy hopeful wit, And with a welcome plaudit entertain This lovely issue of thy teeming brain.
The indifference of this Anacreon of music to renown is worthy of remark.
Side-note: Opening of the Hippias Major--Hippias describes the successful circuit which he had made through Greece, and the renown as well as the gain acquired by his lectures.
There are noble and mysterious triumphs, which no eye sees, which no renown rewards, which no flourish of trumpets salutes.
Moreover, you have gained too much renown as a general, to be overshadowed by the reputation of any man.
And if the stars are not false," whispered she, tenderly, "this feeble body enshrines a mind that shall win renown for the house of Savoy.
Let her heart seek mine, and I will take care thatrenown shall tell her where to find me.
Your majesty," said he to his wife, "I present you a young hero, who for three years has been gaining renown in the service of Austria.
Not content with the laurels he has won as the ringleader of a mob, he has aspired to achieve renown by defaming women.
Such a poor devil as that covet renown at any price!
Wyllys bowed her head, in acknowledgment of the truth of the opinion, and in testimony of the renown of the deceased Admiral; but did not think it necessary to make any reply.
But even this experiment, whatever might have been its effects abroad, served to confirm his renown at home.
Could he attain that renown without sullying what he valued quite as much, his character for gentility?
His only chance for renown would have been that he might have occupied a niche in a satire, between Flecknoe and Settle.
Could he forego therenown of being the first wit of his age?
Men grew old in camps, and acquired the highest renown by their warlike achievements, without being once required to face serious danger.
In the British Army there are specialists of renown in medicine and surgery who are supposed to supervise the medical and surgical work of a certain given area.
But they were full of faith in God, while, as patriots, they exulted in the prospect of extending the renown of dear old England.
Thanks to the universalrenown which he had acquired both in science and in literature, Buffon maintained with the men who succeeded one another in office relations which enabled him to do almost anything he liked at the Royal Garden.
This part contains many tales of gods and heroes old, whose adventures had been sung by Skalds, of high renown and lofty genius.
Brave he was, but brave as a leader; those faculties in which he appears to have excelled all his contemporaries, were more analogous to the requisites of success in civilised times, than those which won renown of old.
In his youth, this general had gained renown under his uncle Prince Ferdinand.
Next to her Majesty, Prince Louis of Prussia, a brave young man, incited by the war faction, vainly hopes to gain honours and renown in the vicissitudes of war.
Thus, you see, I am seeking a brave knight to deliver me, and your renown has led me to address myself to you.
Landscapes by Turner and Assyrian bulls were a poor substitute for the literary dinner-parties at which she had hoped to meet the genius and renown of Great Britain.
He had received the better part of his education at Harvard College, where, however, he had gained renown rather as a gymnast and an oarsman than as a gleaner of more dispersed knowledge.
That governor, still envious of the renown of his rival, refused to confer on him the powers belonging to his new office, and all that Vasco Nuñez could obtain was the recognition of the title.
The two orders, rivalling each other in power and glory, attended far less to the defence of the holy places than to the augmentation of their own renown and riches.
I strive but for renown in arms, and not for your fair Hildegardis!
So great grew the renown of my skill in medicine that patients were brought to me from all the four quarters of the globe.
On July 1 the Ulster Division won immortal renown on the Somme.
The 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) served under Wellington and contributed more than their fair share to the martial renown of the British Army.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "renown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
