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I had by this time, of course, guessed the name of his client, since these details had long been a matter of public notoriety, and, I need hardly say, listened to the story with a heightened interest.
In some instances, too, it would seem that certain trees like animals have gained a notoriety, purely fabulous, through trickery and credulity.
Some trees and plants have gained a medical notoriety from the fact of their having a mystical history, and from the supernatural qualities ascribed to them.
He was a character of no little notoriety in those parts, enjoying the reputation of being able to consume more pineapple rum with less effect upon his balance than any other man in the community.
He was seeking notoriety; and his attempts to obtain it gave more method to his pranks and follies than belonged to the results of natural impulse and passion.
Bear these facts in mind, ye obscure, inexperienced, discontented, envious, ambitious seekers after notoriety or novelty!
"Don't be so unmanly as to punish a poor servant for mentioning a piece of news that interested the whole plantation, and which must of course be a matter of notoriety," she replied very quietly.
Zola was would have rushed into print for the mere sake of notoriety, but he condemned himself to silence, stifling the words which rose from his throbbing heart.
The notoriety and wide popular perusal of this treatise appear to have astonished the author even more than the book itself has astonished the reading world.
He was first brought into notoriety by his quarrel with Paul de Cassagnac, the editor of the Pays, whom he challenged, and who refused his cartel.
They clung around our legs like live things, and I damned the Professor's idiotic craving for notoriety as we waded through the clammy creepers in search of the trail made by the party.
This young chief appears to have drawn a temporary notoriety upon himself by his position in the late war party, which is, to some extent, fallacious.
The case of the North Country workman who voluntarily abandoned his unemployment grant in order to take a job is attributed to a morbid craze for notoriety.
If the innocent characters in this poem were not delineated with more truth and feeling, the notoriety of the author would scarcely have induced us to bestow so much time on its examination.
There was no affectation of regard or confidence on either side; their mutual hatred was matter of notoriety, but they were essential to each other.
Their devotion to the cause of abolition was pure; for its sake they suppressed the vanity of personal notoriety and of oratorical display.
This is the first occasion on which the name of this veteran appears in these American wars, where it was afterwards to acquire a melancholy notoriety.
Sterne soon had cause for jealousy, and it is at least certain that several years before Sterne's emergence into notoriety their estrangement was complete.
The vision which had troubled him all night, of a broadside notoriety in all the city papers, rose before his mind, clothed with fresh horror.
We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are not noble, but the human is very despicable vermin and only tolerable when it tends to the brute, and away from the evangelical.
The school to which I was sent was half a day's journey from the city of our residence, situated in a small but ancient town of Revolutionary notoriety.
If that original motive seems inadequate and if traces of it have been partially responsible for his reputation as a seeker of personal notoriety, still it has lent ardor to his crusade.
How often is it only apparent, while the real feeling is selfish vanity craving notoriety, or moral indifference which is insensible to the pain of either the existence or confession of unbelief.
Which mental attitude was fortunate, indeed; for it, and it alone, preserved the girl from a wild blare of newspaper notoriety.
We did not enjoy the notoriety very much, but the guard enjoyed it immensely, for was he not the keeper of two hardened and desperate men?
Fell, doomed to eternal notoriety by the well-known rhymes about his mysterious unpopularity, employed Wren to build the gate tower.
Only a small proportion of the current critical literature of engineering serves any good or useful purpose, since it has no other or higher object than to help the critics to climb into notoriety on the shoulders of the older and wiser men with whom they are brought into competition.
Open heaths were their favorite hunting grounds, though they liked well enough to lie in hiding in the forests when they had brought too much notoriety upon themselves.
Of notoriety, of a vulgar sensation such as this, of malicious gossip, of all that was cheap and familiarizing, she had a deep-seated horror.
The total failure of the free trade system to procure any, even the smallest return, coupled with the very serious injury it has inflicted on many of the staple branches of our industry, has now been completely demonstrated by experience, and is matter of universal notoriety.
This was a matter of notoriety in the neighborhood, and the tenants, to please her or humor the joke, sometimes brought bags of shillings and sixpences in part payment of their rents.
Just as a notorious author is too often rendered uneasy by the consciousness of his notoriety, so even a millionaire-president may sometimes have a difficulty in being quite natural.
If you disregard it, you will become time-serving demagogues, playing upon the passions of the people for the sake of short-lived notoriety.
He could do the boy no good, and had no especial wish to look at him, although he had been promoted to the notoriety of seeing a ghost.
Only, unfortunately, the whole land will ring with your story, and your notoriety will be more extensive than gratifying.
A foolish and morbid publicity has cloaked men of this class with a notoriety which cheap and pernicious literature has greatly helped to disseminate.
Nor need Turpin have stooped to a vicarious notoriety, for he possessed a certain rough, half conscious humor, which was not despicable.
We would not willingly intrude upon the privacy of domestic interests, but the following facts will too soon be matters of public notoriety.
Several other bright and shining lights of the local firmament, social, financial, and commercial, shared the photographic notoriety.
And how little charmed with my notoriety, which was urged as the special reason for my being hedged round with the utmost conventional decorum!
I don't object to notoriety, but there are numerous ways of winning it that are objectionable, and this old lady was one.
An opinion prevailed, that it was not enough merely to appeal to public notoriety, but that it was necessary to give an exact analysis of the brilliant discoveries of Laplace in order to exhibit more fully the importance of the resolution about to be adopted.
Here and there a slush lamp or a torch blazed before an establishment seeking notoriety, shedding a note of lurid color upon the faces of the bearded men thronging the footpath.
In either case such a statement, or rumor, about a learned and wealthy alchemist was likely to be believed, particularly among strangers; and as such a man would, of course, be the object of much attention, the claim was frequently made by persons seeking notoriety.
In a flamboyant career marked by much notoriety, he has emerged as one of the most important figures of his generation in expanding the freedom of the press.
Jenny Fancy, a lady of a certain age already, but so situated as to return to her lovers in notoriety what they gave her in good money.
He cross-questioned the girl vigorously, and failing to elicit satisfactory replies, laughingly accused her of an attempt to earn a cheap notoriety by the elaboration of a petty mystery.
Owen had now got into notice as an injured wife, and by virtue of that notoriety, could, in the future, firmly maintain her position, and refuse to be again consigned to oblivion or the kitchen.
Love of notoriety, vague activity, fantastic indolence, we may be sure, were working their will in the sacred close of the Muses.
He was in all matters very bold and reckless, passionately fond of any notoriety whatsoever and contemptuous of all that was superior.
The officers of the 81st were superior skaters, among whom was Major Booth whose remarkable evolutions gained great notoriety.
He laughed heartily at the caricature; but thinking it was getting him rather more notoriety than he wished, he put it in his pocket, and that was the end of it.
In that year came out a work, which had, in its day, some little notoriety, but has long ago passed to the limbo of forgotten things.
Many of our great men like Charles Matthews, Garrick, Sir Isaac Newton, Byron, were afflicted with it and shunned all notoriety.
I had convinced her father that it was best she should remain with us until the unpleasant notoriety caused by his arrest had, in a measure, subsided.
This trick, repeated, as we shall see, on another occasion, was intended either to shirk responsibility or to increase the notoriety of the book.
She could believe that the poor did not suffer from so cruel a notoriety, being quickly lost in the oblivious waters of poverty and distress, amid refuges and workhouses.
It appears to me very strange that the gentry of the neighborhood suffer a very small modicum of ephemeral newspaper notoriety to get the better of their good sense.
A committee was appointed to ferret out witches, and children were readily found to court the notoriety and interest which a share in the work attracted.
Even the cartridges of Mutiny notoriety in 1857 were from this factory, though it had long ceased to be connected with the mission.
Women even do not any longer understand the nobility of their incognito; they also come forth into notoriety, and shout out their I!
He was a soldier and jurist, but his most prominent position (though now of painful notoriety) was as commander of that tragic disgrace in American history, the expedition against the Acadians.
Was he anything more than a clever young politician seeking notoriety by espousing unpopular courses whenever there was a chance to strike a blow at those high in authority?
It has already gained some notoriety, as I was publicly requested, before the whole Fifth, the other day, to abstain from evoking its musical talents in the course of the Latin prose lesson.
Even if unable to offer either, the notoriety so acquired will in time soften into a counterfeit of celebrity so like the original that it will easily pass for it.
The only immediate effect of this escapade was apparently to precipitate and bring into notoriety the growing affection of an obscure lover of Sarah Walker's, hitherto unsuspected.
The celebrity, which he has enjoyed since the writings of the Eclectics, by itself affords but a faint presumption of his notoriety before they appeared.
That he was sincere in his advocacy of Reform must in all fairness be conceded, though his itch for notoriety must always be considered in reviewing and estimating his actions.
This, of itself, would have gone far towards reconciling him to the indignities which had been heaped upon him, for notoriety was very dear to his heart.
As the chief naval representative of the Colonies who cruised in European waters, Jones achieved a notoriety somewhat out of proportion to his actual achievements.
The fact that it rarely serves to introduce unknown writers of talent to the reading world, may be laid to the account of the eagerness of the syndicates to secure names that already enjoy notoriety.
We have had shoddy, we have had contracts, we have had substitute-brokerage, we have had speculators in patriotism, and, still worse, in military notoriety.
Very often the official censor of morals aims his remarks at some grammar school or high school character of notoriety, but is democratic enough to include "some of you students."
It is not quite easy to understand why, in an age of caricature, an age when all men of any notoriety were caricatured, the friends of Wilkes were so sensitive to the satire of Hogarth.
You know my father was acquainted with everybody, and his greatest pleasure in life was to introduce the notoriety of the moment to the leading members of English Society.
He got valuable political notoriety as an Assemblyman, but that was, as I have so often said, because he could not be inconspicuous anywhere.
This has been a most regrettable mistake, and one which will entail a hideous amount of notoriety, but that cannot be helped now.
As if Mr Gerrard would ever have joined him if he had been merely trying to bring himself into notoriety at the expense of disobeying orders!
Those instances were rare exceptions; and because they were so few and so exceptional, acquired a degree of notoriety and received a degree of attention to which they were never entitled.
The man who likes to tell a tall story is not very infrequent, either amongst civilians or soldiers, and if he can gain notoriety or advantage thereby, the temptation is considerable.
She did not have to be told that, after the notoriety of the Cartel incident, the name of Isabelle Bryce was one for editors to conjure with.
Apart from Father Ivan and his peculiar reputation, there were hundreds of other pilgrims who, though quite unknown on their arrival, soon gained there a lucrative notoriety.
Very clever indeed were many women in manipulating the spinning wheel, and there seems to have been some competitive contests for notoriety among country women, who found a pleasing though perhaps at times tedious occupation in spinning the wool for the local weaver who wove the home-made cloth.
After the report of the watchers the notoriety of Sarah Jacob of course became still greater; crowds came to visit her, and among others the Rev.
Altogether I was more of a notoriety than I ever hope to be again; especially as any European would have done them as well.
There was, in fine, but one feature of the affair which even Oswald Melvin, drunk with notoriety and secretly sanguine of a nominal punishment, could not contemplate with absolute satisfaction.
If you reside in a place where you can adopt this as your industrial and walking costume, without too much notoriety and odium, try it.
If the withdrawal of the true worshipers had been an occurrence of so much notoriety as to be prominently historically noticed, it might have defeated their withdrawal.
It would be easy to demonstrate that the qualities that have placed him in his present position of notoriety and affluence would, in another pursuit, have raised him to far greater eminence.
To this state of affairs I made no objection, for I coveted the sort of distinction or notoriety it gave me, and as I rarely failed of success, I steadily gained in prestige and influence.
Its enemy, or rather the man whom democracy dreads because he means to govern and does not intend to allow the mob to govern through him, is the man who succeeds in getting elected for some constituency or other, either by the influence of his wealth or by the prestige of his talent and notoriety.
Vincent's conduct, if it showed nothing more than a shrinking from notoriety, was sufficiently offensive, such distaste being necessarily either cynical or hypocritical.
In such cases, it is a matter of notoriety that the younger children have become addicted to the practice of intoxication much more frequently than the older, in the proportion of five to one.
He had been close to the old Republican organization, and the figurehead of the radicals in 1864, so that his notoriety was great.
These are facts of public notoriety; and your hesitation, your scruples, must all cease, now that the matter concerns your son.
As the questions increased in importance and delicacy, so much the more independence and discord manifested themselves in the bosom of the ministerial party, with dangerous notoriety.
Notoriety may be achieved in a narrow sphere, but fame demands for its evidence a more distant and prolonged reverberation.
The mere notoriety that so powerful a flotilla accompanied the movement was protection greater, perhaps, than the force itself; for it would impose quiescence even upon a more active enemy.
His appearance was comical, but he was really a dreadful barbarian, who thought that it was better to gain notoriety as a hard drinker than to be forgotten entirely.
I determined to leave the house, never to return, for I dreaded being brought before the public, as a witness, being a great hater of notoriety in any shape.