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But that isn't true, another guy made the name famous.
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One day a youth started off from his native village, resolved never to come back till he had done some great deed that would make his name famous.
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The good, old neighbor, white haired and trembling, came down to the banks of that little stream and stood in the shade of the same old maple where he had written that beautiful poem, and read from the wonderful creation that made his name famous.
Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr
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A wonderful spirit of prayer, and gift of miracles, rendered his name famous.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Count Egmont, the son of the Count Egmont, whose death on the scaffold in 1568, in consequence of the resistance he offered to the tyranny of Philip II. of Spain, has made the name famous.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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Then her heart would swell with pride at the thought that she came of a long line of Hunters who had lived here and made the name famous.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke
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The wider scope for which he had been longing was now within his grasp, and from the date of his appointment at Weimar he began to compose those masterpieces for the organ which in after-years were to help to make his name famous.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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It was his own cat "Peter" who first suggested to Louis Wain the fanciful cat creations which have made his name famous.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow
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He wanted to call her Georgy, but his mother forbade it: so we named her after that duchess of Devonshire who had made the name famous.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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He was explaining to me how he came to invent a certain machine which has made his name famous.
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg John Spargo 1921
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