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
"One word, Mary," she said; "if you grow famous, no marrying—mind!"
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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 Richard Harding Davis
"I wonder how many pictures I'll have to paint before I begin to grow famous?"
From Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) by Various
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
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