grow famous

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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

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

The downs, strictly so called, are no more; Lincolnshire farmers have been imported, and the long fresh slopes are sheep-walks no more, but grow famous turnips and barley.

From Tom Brown's School Day's by Hughes, Thomas

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

For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?

From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold