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- adjective obsolete Renowned.
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- adjective obsolete
famed ;renowned
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Examples
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QUOTATION: The painful warrior famoused for fight, 1
Quotations 1919
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Roberto, now famoused for an arch-playmaking poet, his purse, like the sea, sometime swelled, anon, like the same sea, fell to a low ebb; yet seldom he wanted, his labours were so well esteemed.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Warrior famoused for fight, 161. intrepid and unselfish, 571. taking his rest, like a, 563.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Painful vigils keep, pensive poets, 331. warrior famoused for fight, 161.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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This may have been owing to the stories he told them of the heroic uncle, whose deeds, we may be sure, were properly famoused by the boy Homer, and whom they probably took for an admiral at the least, as it would have been well for Keats's literary prosperity if he had been.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Not farre from hence there is a woman famoused for arts,
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe 1578
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Goodfellow, and suchlike spirits, as they term them, of the buttery, famoused in every old wives 'chronicle for their mad merry pranks. "[
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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