notorieties

"notorieties" of the town, and the private histories of each.

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

There we could observe the notorieties and eccentricities of the place.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Spark uses these simple notorieties repetitively, almost as a kind of Homeric tag, whenever the characters are reintroduced in the book.

The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

Spark uses these simple notorieties repetitively, almost as a kind of Homeric tag, whenever the characters are reintroduced in the book.

The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

The most notable of these were known by the nickname “Les Affreux” “The Terrible Ones” and included such “notorieties” as the Irish-born commando “Mad” Mike Hoare and Frenchman Bob Denard.26 Denard would make coups his own cottage industry and later lead a series of violent coups in the Comoros Islands and the Seychelles from the 1970s on; his last coup attempt was as recent as 1995.27

THE NEWS BLOG 2005

- THE PARADE of celebrities, notorieties, and just plain brass that passed through the reception. room of Jno.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

"Hell-Fire Club," of which John Wilkes, Bubb Dodington and other political notorieties were members.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

America has shaken down more eminencies into notorieties than any other country in the world -- it is a severe and terrible ordeal for great foreigners.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

He seems to me abnormally lacking in personal ambition, -- does not seem to care whether he is heard of or not, -- has a sort of contempt for the little neighborhood notorieties which give most men pleasure.

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

And simple young gentlemen, with a morbid passion for notorieties and moral sentiments, forwarded little books, bound in sheepskin heavily gilt, inscribed, "World-Thoughts of My Country's Gifted Minds," and "Mrs. Widesworth is requested to write any maxim which her experience of life may have suggested on page 209 of this volume, just between the remarks of the Living Skeleton and the autograph of the Idiot Albino."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various