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
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And I say to her, 'My beloved, my queen, you and I will be married and we will work together and grow famous and rich.'
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
Now when Giotto was beginning to grow famous, it happened that the Pope was anxious to have the walls of the great Cathedral of St. Peter at Rome decorated.
From Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters by Steedman, Amy
"One word, Mary," she said; "if you grow famous, no marrying—mind!"
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
One does not have so many friends that one can spare them for long, even to have them grow famous.
From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding