And I'll tell you more than that, Simmonds; if we do get him, I'll have the biggest story I ever had, and you will be world-famous.

He was the only son of a widowed mother, and, had he lived, might have become a world-famous chemist.

So what do you think about that?" Graham was astounded to hear these two world-famous personages fighting like children and competing for his attention.

Significant truly, that in his old age Solomon the wise should love strange women, and deserting for their sakes the God of his fathers, end as an idolater and a dotard, worshipping the abominations of the heathen, his once world-famous wisdom sunk into utter folly.

Apart from his world-famous fairy tales, by which he set no great store, being ambitious of fame as a novelist, he wrote several successful plays, epic poems and novels.

Suppose I could put you down to-night in the midst of some European court,could show you men whose courage, wit, or learning had made them world-famous,women whose beauty, grace, and cultivation brought those world-famous men to their side, and who held them there by the fascination that high-breeding knows how to use.

After Scott had become world-famous, his happiest hours were spent in enlarging and adorning his land at Abbotsford, and in erecting and embellishing his baronial castle.

The name of Kildee is, in the breed, almost world-famous, and it is interesting to note that in every line does he go back to the said Splinter II.

Pepin gave the pope both the ex-archate and the republic of Rome; and this munificent gift is the world-famous "Donation of Pepin," on which rested the whole fabric of the temporal power of the popes (A.D. 755).

Who could ever have taken her, in that costume, for a world-famous prima donna!

The world-famous Mr. Cornelius Gosling-Green, M.P., hoping to become a Corporal!

This haven of rest, where the world-famous little woman came, ever and anon, to recruit her overtaxed energies, was very tastefully furnished, adorned with engravings, books, and statuary.

During all those terrible years the falling-off among the patrons of your world-famous bathing-establishment must have been a source of cruel grief to you.

Parting company with classical legend in the incident which gives its title to the play, Peele further adds a fifth act, in which he contrives to make the world-famous history subserve the courtly ends of the masque.

And finally I said (and this is the cause of the whole trouble) that ANTOINE VAURELLE'S world-famous classicand I looked it up in the Encyclopaediaworld-renowned classic, Je Comprends Tout, had been not without its influence on Mr. Blank.

"And so you think the world-famous British Constitution may be written in one condensed sentencethe old English formulaParliament is omnipotent.

Leclair, the world-famous ace?" "Leclair, nothing else.

For with a face quite unmoved, he turned now to the examination of the world-famous Black Stone.

All the world-famous Borghese jewels were hers to deck her beauty witha small Golconda of priceless gems; there was gold galore to satisfy her most extravagant whims; and she was still youngonly twenty-fiveand in the very zenith of her loveliness.

ALEXAN`DRIA (230), a world-famous city, the chief port of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., at one time a great centre of learning, and in possession of the largest library of antique literature in the world, which was burned by the Caliph Omar in 640; at one time a place of great commerce, but that has very materially decayed since the opening of the Suez Canal.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN, a world-famous story-teller of Danish birth, son of a poor shoemaker, born at Odense; was some time before he made his mark, was honoured at length by the esteem and friendship of the royal family, and by a national festival on his seventieth birthday (1805-1875).

ARNE, THOMAS AUGUSTINE, a musical composer of versatile genius, produced, during over 40 years, a succession of pieces in every style from songs to sonatas and oratorios, among others the world-famous chorus "Rule Britannia"; Mrs. Cibber was his sister (1719-1778).

of his world-famous "Histoire Naturelle" between the years 1749 and 1767.

TROY, a city of Troas, a territory NW. of Mysia, Asia Minor, celebrated as the scene of the world-famous legend immortalised by the "Iliad" of Homer in his account of the war caused by the rape of Helen, and which ended with the destruction of the city at the hands of the avenging Greeks.

A world-famous individual is not so unwise as to indulge a variety of wishes to divide his regards.