grow famous

Example Sentences

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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

So Cæsar meant to serve his consulate, take some government where he could grow famous and form an army, and then come home and mould everything anew.

From Young Folks' History of Rome by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

As for their Transactions and their History, he thinks “they purpose to grow famous, as the Turks do to gain Paradise, by treasuring up all the waste paper they meet with.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

But, do you know, I'm afraid you've done something else than grow famous.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony