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The former probably derived its notoriety from the fact of its being sacred to Thor, an honor which marked it out, like other lightning plants, as peculiarly adapted for occult uses.
Nor did she court notoriety, like Georges Sand, who was as indifferent to reproach as she was to shame.
"I have placed great confidence in you; for you can easily imagine it would be extremely disagreeable to me, as well as to her, to become objects of public notoriety."
I point out these two things (magnetic disturbances and weather) as tending to shew that notoriety or the assumed consent of practical men, are of no value.
The judge was polite, showing him the consideration due to a man of his notoriety, but, seemed in no haste to dismiss the case; it almost looked as if he was waiting for something ... for what?
The name of Robert Owen is but little remembered now, but at the early part of the century he attained some notoriety from his endeavors to reform society.
Then the ladies retired, amongst them poor Maria, who was naturally upset at the unexpected, and, in some ways, unwelcome notoriety thus given to herself.
The existence of such designs has for months past been a matter of notoriety by public report.
Your connection with Emily will inevitably become a matter of notoriety, and then you would find it difficult to shake her off there, as you could here, in case you wanted to marry another woman.
We could commence a suit, and put you to nearly that expense to defend it; to say nothing of the notoriety that the circumstance would occasion you.
It is well that hard words break no bones, else two or three gentlemen of literary notoriety would be in a sorry plight after reading the following passage in a recent Magazine.
He saw his books of travel sell by the hundred thousand; but while this brought him money and notoriety, he clung still to his poetry.
We see, then, that our author came very early into public notice; and from that time to this, he has not allowed one year to pass without endeavoring to extend his notoriety.
Sir William had not, however, allowed his title to be used, as he shrank from the notoriety which the knowledge of his position and wealth would create among the settlers of that region.
You little understand the nature of man, if you are now to learn that he has pride in maintaining a reputation for even vice, when he has once purchased notoriety by its exhibition.
Her father moved heaven and earth to make Clara suspect Schumann's fidelity, and he gave the love affair as unpleasant a notoriety as possible.
It was known to notoriety that since her wedding madame had abandoned, destroyed, all knowledge of her friend.
She had merely perceived a suitable opportunity to make the acquaintance of the fierce red Chief Inspector, and at the same time to secure notoriety for herself.
It is unnecessary to say that in the course of this career he acquires, not only notoriety, but enemies, who watch eagerly for the false step that shall bring him to the ground.
This notoriety doubtless produces a very beneficial effect in preserving the integrity of the members of both houses.
There was too much notoriety connected with them, for one thing; there was nothing she hated so much as notoriety.
If we do not climb the Alps to gain notoriety, for what purpose can we possibly climb them?
Out with you, liars that you are, tell the truth, say you would sell the souls you don't believe in, or do believe in, for notoriety.
I've kept a rooming house for a good many years now, gentlemen, and this is the first time I have had any notoriety.
While their contest with that power has been a matter of public notoriety, they have neither asked nor received from this Government any recognition.
William Bayard Hale, a gifted writer and speaker, who obtained some international notoriety eight years ago by interviewing the Kaiser.
Among the first to whom he presented me was a noted politician who, both before and since, has enjoyed a national notoriety, and who still lives, and is as, ready as ever to talk or fight.
Often when it would be to a man's greatest advantage to escape from the hands of the police or the records of history, he would seem to regret the escape so great is the love of notoriety.
He knew nothing whatever about her up to the period of notoriety; he had no special and no previous knowledge of his own.
Nestor has met with only a simple accident, he would not like the notoriety, or publicity, of having the police notified.
George was a man who invariably attached himself where notoriety was to be obtained, and since Miss Lafitte had become the rage he was her shadow.
He had an open good-humored face, and was very kind-hearted; but was subject to peculiar fits of insanity, during which he did wild and foolish things for the mere love of notoriety.
Tom cried in despair, for both Ezra and his companion, who was none other than Burt, of African notoriety, had disappeared from his sight.
It is curious that he did not hide himself altogether if he really wished to escape notoriety; but, no, he would still be within the gaze of admiring throngs.
And it is to be remembered, above all, that, considered as an engine for obtaining notoriety, the woman-suffrage agitation is a great waste of energy.
It may be questioned whether publicity or notoriety should form an essential part of the definition; it seems, however, to be involved, or the prostitute cannot obtain clients.
The notoriety this gave him was quite as valuable politically, probably, as was the forty dollars he received for his service financially.
There was, however, no room for conjecture on this point, as the fact was early a matter of notoriety, and many of the illustrations in his books were known to be from his own sketches.
Meantime, had she been a lover of notoriety, she would have been happy, for the town talked of nothing but her.
The remembrance of the agony in which he had resigned himself to the abandonment of his family, to notoriety, disgrace, and retribution, clung to him.
Obviously a woman not free from a nervous vanity, and a woman of hungry ambition, her vanity and ambition had been fed by his growing notoriety, his increasing success and influence.
The above resume of his biography I believe to be substantially correct, although it is possible that he may have died once or twice in obscure places where the event failed of newspaper notoriety.
All are agreed that it is the picture of the Lady who since that time has achieved a certain notoriety in the history of the Hohenzollern dynasty under the name of the 'Lady in white.'
This notoriety was hurting his professional standing, and now if Gilmore carried out his threat he must look forward to the shame of a public exposure.
There will be no newspaper notoriety, for the journalists will know nothing of what has really happened.
It seemed to me the very soul of music; those simple people singing, not for pay, not for notoriety, out of the fullness of their hearts.
No other proof was requisite against Gonzalo Pizarro than his own acknowledgment and the notoriety of his having been in open rebellion against the sovereign.
Ten years ago he had achieved considerable notoriety as a visionary who was bent on sinking his handsome fortune in the sea.
Bonner resolved to profit by her sudden notoriety, and requested her to write a story for the "Ledger," for which he offered to pay her twenty-five dollars per column.
There were not wanting those who believed that it was a trick of the poet himself to increase his notoriety; but such an opinion is hardly warranted.
He had done nothing to give himself fame, but he had done many odd things which gave him notoriety.
After all, though I pretended to criticize, to myself ... yet, in my heart, I liked his frank rejoicing in his fame, his notoriety, and only envied him his ability to do so.
What gave the house a mysterious notoriety, augmenting the sinister quality in its appearance, was the fact that one of its rooms, a corner room on the main floor, had not been opened for generations.
He was engaged with this business for two years, and was so efficient that he obtained an unpleasant notoriety, and complaints of his conduct found their way to the king.
It was the first time in my life that any notable attention had been taken of me in my own country, that was not a personal notoriety over some conflict of the hour.
Yet he was proud of her still; proud even of the notoriety which was a tribute to her beauty.
"For several months last summer he trained officers and crews in this branch of warfare, which gained him international notoriety."
Up to a certain point notoriety is like a woman, and a man is apt to love it; but when it becomes exacting, demanding instead of permitting itself to be courted, it loses its charm.
You can always minister to a mind diseased by a morbid craving for notoriety if a paragraph in a country newspaper will suffice.
As this volume may not be of general notoriety, the reader may be prepared to receive an account of its contents with the greater readiness and satisfaction.
Then came a period of splendid notoriety: he held his court, he gave an easy rein to his wit, he received duchesses and princes with an air of amiable patronage.
From having been successfully used on some race horses of high value, the Cochran shoe has attained considerable notoriety and is being used by a number of practitioners.
No shorter cut to notoriety could have been devised, for it was the "Silly Season," and Satan found plenty of mischief for his idle hands to do.
Jordan and the late king; of the present one, Harlow, Lawrence, and innumerable other folk of note and notoriety.
If one cannot create a sound and living art, one can at least make something odd enough to be talked about; if one cannot achieve enduring fame, one may make sure of a flaming notoriety.
Charles Neville Buck intended us to recognize in Sir Hector a certain General whose name acquired a painful notoriety not so long ago.
We hesitate over our own taste, and turn rather to the crowning of some courageous male, with a liking and a talent for notoriety.
They are to be congratulated on their breeding, for with his prominence to back them they would find notoriety an easy plum.
Such therefore, as refer to events of universal notoriety are but slightly and generally mentioned; such as concern less remarkable points of history are more fully explained.
If so, your motive in making this visit is based on disrespect, on an error which accident brought into notoriety.
The governor had ordered him to put us up, as his had the notoriety of being a clean house.
If he were older I'd accuse him of trying to earn a cheap notoriety, but he's almost too little to pretend.
She believed in a woman keeping in her own sphere, and for her part she craved no such notoriety.
The entire congregation learned of this priest's attempted assault upon virtue, but this degrading notoriety did not injure him in the least, as his services are just as crowded as they were before.
Wall, his success at college added some to his notoriety, and his doings was talked back and forth more'n ever.
It meant imprisonment and trial, probably, with all the notoriety and loss of practice they would entail.
Two miles in a direct line south of the village is a cave or rock shelter which has much local notoriety from the fact that three skeletons were found in it.
It is true that the poverty of George, in his residence in the United States, was of world-wide notoriety.
There were no newspaper-made heroes, hastening back to exchange cheap military glory for votes and delicious notoriety.
I hear on very good authority that the purchaser of part of one of the old estates has acquired an unpleasant notoriety in his management of the land.
She recalled the notoriety she and Claude had had out here, the innumerable attentions which had been showered upon them, the interest which had been shown in them, the expectations aroused by Claude.
"I don't like newspaper notoriety, but I can't muzzle the papers, and it's easy for them to get my whole history if they want it."
Born in Bermuda, and by profession a lawyer, Captain North was a man of remarkable ability, and in his later calling of piracy he gained great notoriety, and was a born leader of men.
I recognize, of course, how undesirable it is that she should be subjected to any further notoriety, but is there any other way?
Is reported to be a little too fond of notoriety, and to like hearing the sound of her own voice on public occasions.
We should, I suppose, have only pity for an editor who would give space to such stuff, and should also pity the poor wretch who by writing it is striving to attain notoriety.
Yet it is not the vulgar apprehension of power which is associated with notoriety that we claim for him.
This was reason good why Smollett should try to make a little money and notoriety by penning satires.
My father was then in a situation of great responsibility and notoriety in the government of the United States.
There was no big criminal case in which we were not retained for the defense and rarely a divorce action of any notoriety where we did not appear for one of the parties.
I had not seen her since the notoriety my name had acquired, in consequence of the diamonds and my father's arrest; and she knew me now as the daughter of that unhappy man.
Curious as it may seem, too, many of these societies have gained some influence and notoriety beyond college walls.
The window marked by two birds flying directly over it, and second from the highest in the same tower, has acquired a bloody notoriety.
It was at total variance with the reputation Scotchmen have acquired for the observance of that day, but in perfect keeping with the notoriety they have gained for their love of strong drink.
He'll stir up a lot of notoriety and present a bill; and you'll be no wiser than you were before.
For her, even more than himself, it must bring back the painful notoriety of their last companionship.
The South had many bands of them, the leaders of which gained much notoriety, but they contributed little towards general results.
Both Sir Donald and Esther regretted the notoriety likely to result from this affair, but none of its details were published.
His mother, Catherine Kepler, had attained undesirable notoriety by the suspicion that she was guilty of witchcraft.
A certain doctor, probably a quack, acquired some notoriety by always prescribing the left leg of a boiled fowl.