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To her brother, who was eager for her approval of his celebrity,
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Armstrong & Co. Why we should love so dearly a fresh anecdote of a literary celebrity,
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Mrs Perkins and other haunts of fashionable and literary celebrity,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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Since Miss Haldin with her sure instinct had refrained from introducing me to the burly celebrity,
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1890
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He had a noble new skeleton -- the skeleton of the late and only local celebrity,
Editorial Wild Oats Mark Twain 1872
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Another of Michelangelo's buffoon friends was a Florentine celebrity,
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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Among those new members were three destined to national celebrity,
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Among those new members were three destined to national celebrity,
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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By these, hopeless of victory, and yet ashamed to confess a conquest, the summer is regarded as a release from the fatiguing service of celebrity,
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Expect a sometimes shooting-challenged defensive struggle Friday as well as the emergence of a new Panther celebrity,
Rush The Court rtmsf 2010
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