25 Metaphors for famous

James, third son of Craigmyle the Covenanter, married a daughter of the family of Irvine of Monboddo, a scion of the house of Drum, and having so acquired that barony, he transmitted it to his descendants, of whom the most famous was his great-grandson, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, a Judge of the Court of Session, an eminent lawyer, and a man of rare accomplishments, with some whimsical peculiarities.

" The most famous of the Mount Vernon negroes was William Lee, better known as Billy, whose purchase from Mary Lee has already been noticed.

The most famous of Zincke's productions is the well-known Talma Shakespeare, which gentle Charles Lamb made a pilgrimage to Paris to see; and when he did see, knelt down and kissed with idolatrous veneration.

So had we still of ours, in France that famous were, Warwick, of England then high-constable that was, ...

Famous is the orchard wedding beneath a blossoming apple tree, where the air is filled with fragrance and the bridal party comes winding through the trees to the trysting place.

Miss Marryatthe favorite sister of Captain Marryat, the famous novelistwas a maiden lady of large means.

The two most famous of the great double canoes of the Maori settlers were the Arawa (shark), and the Tainui (flood-tide).

The most famous of them was the Merrimac.

The most famous of these vessels was the Alabama.

In the colonnade are a number of statues, the most famous of which is perhaps the "Dying Adonis" which Baedeker gives to Michelangelo but the curator to Vincenzo di Rossi; an ascription that would annoy Michelangelo exceedingly, if it were a mistake, since Rossi was a pupil of his enemy, the absurd Bandinelli.

The most famous of these colonists was Champlain.

But the most famous is Leucata Petra, that renowned rock in Greece, of which Strabo writes, Geog.

The most famous of these visitors, of course, was little Dorothy Gale.

These consist of an account of her own life, and various letters and mystic treatises, some description of her spiritual conflicts and ecstasies, others giving accounts of her religious labors in the founding of reformed orders and convents; while the most famous is a rapt portrayal of the progress of the soul to the highest heaven.

The most famous of these are "The Owl and the Nightingale,"a long debate between the two birds, one representing the gay side of life, the other the sterner side of law and morals,and "Land of Cockaygne," i.e. "Luxury Land," a keen satire on monks and monastic religion.

His most famous is "The Four P's," a contest of wit between a "Pardoner, a Palmer, a Pedlar and a Poticary."

The most famous of them all was Cortez.

A`GIS, the name of several Spartan kings, of whom the most famous were Agis III. and IV., the former famous for his resistance to the Macedonian domination, d. 330 B.C.; and the latter for his attempts to carry a law for the equal division of land, d. 240

The most famous of these islands was Scandinavia, of as yet unexplored size; the known parts were inhabited by a people called hilleviones, who gave it the name of another world.

The most famous of them all were Jacob Catt's Dutch emblems.

The most famous of them all is the saying that "Hypocrisy is a sort of Homage which Vice pays to Virtue," but there are others that fly from mouth to mouth, and treat more definitely of self-love.

The most famous of them was his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, published as a serial in the London Magazine, in 1821.

The most famous of these is the Bargate (originally "Barred" Gate), once the principal, or Winchester, entrance to the town.

The most famous of the parts completed is the Novum Organum, which deals with certain methods for searching after definite truth, and shows how to avoid some ever present tendencies toward error.

The most famous of Addison's productions are his papers that appeared in The Spectator, describing a typical country gentleman, Sir Roger de Coverley, and his friends and servants.

25 Metaphors for  famous