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  • O lady revered, delighting in human sacrifice, send on its way to Phrygia's land the host of the Hellenes, to Troy's abodes of guile, and grant that Agamemnon may wreathe his head with deathless fame,

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • O lady revered, delighting in human sacrifice, send on its way to Phrygia's land the host of the Hellenes, to Troy's abodes of guile, and grant that Agamemnon may wreathe his head with deathless fame,

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Miss Howe herself, if she love you, and if she love your fame,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And his fathers, God save us, were men of great fame,

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame,

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • I was seated by the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half south of the village of Concord and somewhat higher than it, in the midst of an extensive wood between that town and Lincoln, and about two miles south of that our only field known to fame,

    Walden 2004

  • The miners of Eureka have long been brought to fame,

    Anastasia's Petticoat 2003

  • Men of worth and rank and mettle, men of honourable fame,

    The Frogs 2000

  • Well, she drank a health to the Victory, and the crew of noble fame,

    On Board the Victory 1997

  • 'T was of the Stag frigate, that ship of great fame,

    Kelly the Pirate 1996

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