grow famous

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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

For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?

From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold

"One word, Mary," she said; "if you grow famous, no marrying—mind!"

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

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 Hughes, Thomas

One does not have so many friends that one can spare them for long, even to have them grow famous.

From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding