343 examples of notoriety in sentences

That man makes me tired with his scorn of newspaper notoriety.

The envy and jealousy of her female enemies, the attempt to immure her in a convent, and her selection of the Grands Cordeliers as her place of retreat, brought her new friends and admirers through the notoriety given her, and all Paris resounded with the fame of her spirit, her wit, and her philosophy.

He rarely drank even so much as a single glass of wine, and it was a matter of general notoriety in the army afterward, that he cared not what he ate.

But Pasquin was now to be brought into greater notoriety than ever.

The notoriety and wide popular perusal of this treatise appear to have astonished the author even more than the book itself has astonished the reading world.

An unenviable notoriety in this respect attached to William Maule (created Baron Panmure 1831).

The name of Robert Owen is but little remembered now, but at the early part of the century he attained some notoriety from his endeavours to reform society.

DEAR SIR, As it is totally inconsistent with my plans to allow my name to be associated with any subject of so much political notoriety and debate as your New System of Society, I trust that you will not consider it as any diminution of personal regard if I request the favour of you to cause my name to be immediately struck out from every sort of advertisement that is likely to appear upon this subject.

He saw his books of travel sell by the hundred thousand; but while this brought him money and notoriety, he clung still to his poetry.

We see, then, that our author came very early into public notice; and from that time to this, he has not allowed one year to pass without endeavouring to extend his notoriety.

He afterwards assisted Mr. Wordsworth in planning his Lyrical Ballads; and contributing several poems to that collection, he shared in the notoriety of the Lake School.

There can be, therefore, no question as to its truth, and as little of its notoriety.

He relates the following occurrence which took place in the neighborhood where he resided, and was a matter of perfect notoriety in the vicinity.

The notoriety of Covent Garden is of too multifarious a description to render the above illustration uninteresting to either of our readers.

But his diocesan was not in London, a circumstance of which, though a matter of some notoriety to the clergy of the diocese, he was quite unconscious; and he returned dinnerless home.

Her father moved heaven and earth to make Clara suspect Schumann's fidelity, and he gave the love affair as unpleasant a notoriety as possible.

They are so used to having a gigantic bubble of notoriety blown for them in a week by the newspapers, though it burst in a day or two, leaving but a drop of muddy suds behind it, that they have almost learned to think the making of a great character as simple a matter as that of a great reputation.

Thus far it had brought him more of notoriety than of solid fame, and his income was so small that he was dependent on Körner's generosity.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

His losses, one son murdered, another wounded to the death, and a third rendered insane from cruel treatment, are scarcely compensated by the transitory notoriety he gathered in a few fool-hardy skirmishes.

It is our duty to notice one chapter in this book, which, more than anything else it contains, has given it notoriety.

The blacksmith would rather have it stop at his shop for repair than at his rival's,it gives him a little notoriety, something to talk about.

Great stories were exchanged on all sides; the glories of Oneida quite eclipsed the lesser claims of the automobile to fame and notoriety, for it seemed that some of the best known men of New York and Chicago were born in the village or the immediate vicinity; the land-marks remain, traditions are intact, the men departed to seek their fortunes elsewhere, but their successes are the town's fame.

However, if the hero of the Hawaiian enterprise was the unlucky angler who caught the bass, he was relieved of the unpleasant notoriety of being summoned into court on a warrant by the very charitable act of Mr. Scranton, of Monterey, who will forever go down in the history of that town as the stalwart defender of the ex-president.

His mind seemed to flow naturally into all the lighter forms of drama, and at last, after five years, success crowned his perseverance in "L'Auberge;" and "Une Nuit de la garde nationale" gave him notoriety and even a sort of fame, just as the Restoration inaugurated that period of social lassitude so favorable to the recognition of his peculiar talent; for during his whole career he was an amuser far more than an instructor.

343 examples of  notoriety  in sentences