grow famous
Example Sentences
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He started not only to invite but to heed Batting Coach Billy DeMars' counsel and also began to grow famous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lincolnshire farmers have been imported, and the long, fresh slopes are sheep-walks no more, but grow famous turnips and barley.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
The name of Caratacus being brought out of the Iles was alreadie spred ouer the prouinces adioining, and began now to grow famous through Italie.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England by Raphael Holinshed
Now when Giotto was beginning to grow famous, it happened that the Pope was anxious to have the walls of the great Cathedral of St. Peter at Rome decorated.
From Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters by Amy Steedman
I should like to grow famous, and make myself a name.”
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
