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

So Cæsar meant to serve his consulate, take some government where he could grow famous and form an army, and then come home and mould everything anew.

From Young Folks' History of Rome by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

I should like to grow famous, and make myself a name.”

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

As for their Transactions and their History, he thinks “they purpose to grow famous, as the Turks do to gain Paradise, by treasuring up all the waste paper they meet with.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Holinshed, Raphael