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The great West has long been famous for the loose, untrammelled freedom with which its inhabitants treat everything and everybody.

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Of the real character of this lady, so famous in literature, and her true relations with Boccaccio, little that is certain is known.

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It was in the early '80s that he first became interested in Base Ball in Indianapolis, and he made himself both wealthy and famous as a promoter.

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The talismans of the Samothracians, so famous of old, were pieces of iron formed into certain images, and set in rings.

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[Illustration: A BEE-PASTURE ON THE MORAINE DESERT, SPANISH BAYONET.] About half an hour's walk above the cabin, I came to "The Fall," famous throughout the valley settlements as the finest yet discovered in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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The sortes praenestinae were famous among the Greeks.

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Verily I fear me no man will dare take up thy cause, for Sir Gilles is a lusty man and famous at the joust.

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The fourth and almost mortal wound of the Roman Empire was at Cannæ, an obscure village of Apulia; which, however, became famous by the greatness of the defeat, its celebrity being acquired by the slaughter of forty thousand men.

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His legal practice, rather than the wide acres of his domain, had supported a hospitality famous from Bucephalo to Washington.

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O Mummius, O Flaminius, You whom your vertues have not made more famous Than Neros vices, you went ore to Greece But t'other warres, and brought home other conquests; You Corinth and Micaena overthrew, And Perseus selfe, the great Achilles race, Orecame; having Minervas stayned Temples

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Should such a shepherd, such a simple swain, As he eclipse thy credit, famous through The court?

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It was named, as may be supposed, in honor of Peter Cartwright, that pioneer Methodist preacher who became famous on the same sort of schooling which sufficed for Abraham Lincoln, and once ran against Lincoln himself for Congress.

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Stafford worked his fly steadily and systematically, with a light and long "cast" which had made him famous with the brethren of the craft, and presently he landed a glittering trout, which, though only a pound in weight, was valued by Stafford at many a pound in gold.

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Mr. Langbaine then proceeds to enumerate his other works, which he says, are famous over all England; of these he has wrote a discourse of Horsemanship, printed 4to.

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In 1341 he fell in love with the daughter of King Robert of Naples, and the lady, whom he made famous under the name of Fiammetta, seems to have loved him in return.

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After this last adventure she ceased to make any figure at Court, her influence over the monarch having entirely ceased; and seven years subsequent to his death she became the wife of Réné du Bec, Marquis de Vardes, and the mother of two sons, the elder of whom, François Réné, Comte de Moret, was afterwards famous during the reign of Louis XIV under the title of Marquis de Vardes.

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They have become famous to the world as "head-hunters."

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His cat, Hodge, should be famous amongst the lovers of the race.

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Perhaps because these experiences and some mysterious instinct of maturing womanhood had left a story in her eyes, which her two adorers, the Postmaster and the butcher, read with passion, she became famous without knowing it.

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Till persecution dragged them into fame = forced them by its cruelty to become famous against their will.

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On the 1st December, 1851, the two regiments hutted on the Esplanade were the 6th and the 42d Regiments of the Line, the 6th commanded by Colonel Garderens de Boisse, who was famous before the Second of December, the 42d by Colonel Espinasse, who became famous since that date.

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CHAPTER VII THE BUSINESS OF BEING A HEROINE Agony awoke the next morning to find herself famous beyond her fondest dreams.

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And we'll have something famous out of it.

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To the fair young man, however, it was well known that the old gentleman's name was famous across Northern and Eastern Africa for monstrous villainy and fiendish crueltythe name of the worst and wickedest of those traders in "black ivory," one of whose side-lines is frequently gun-running.

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