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...er sister’s side at this con- junction. Mrs. Farlow had spoken of her as a celebrity (in what line Anna failed to recall); but Mrs. Farlow’s celebriti...

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... Weyburn went to look at the sheet of water to which little Jane had given celebrity over the county. The girl stood up to her shoulders when she slid...

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...as a 125 Charlotte Brontë somewhat marked preponderance in her character; celebrity has a tendency to foster this sentiment, and in her it should be ...

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...ved that this was a surprise furnished for their amusement by the lat- est celebrity of their circle, Mr. Pericles, their father’s busi- ness ally and... ...ng so. They had, on a particular occasion, made transparent overtures to a celebrity belonging to the Poles, whom they had first met at Brookfield: co...

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...y with the law as to property, and to win for his name some sort of public celebrity. If I myself push my devotion to the point of helping him to writ... ...c financiering—or anything else, no matter what— which would give him that celebrity, I ought also to think of the other matter, his property—it would...

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...re a queer gathering, by report of them! And Mr. Whitmonby too, no doubt a celebrity, was the right- hand man at these dinner-parties of Mrs. Warwick....

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...terity with heightened characteris- tics, to say nothing of a contemporary celebrity nothing less than our being turned inside-out to the rabble. I co...

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...not contented to be known simply as the wives of their husbands. She had a celebrity of her own, quite independent of his position, and which could no...

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...at some dinner and took her down, rather flattered at offering my arm to a celebrity. She didn’t look like one, with her matronly, mild, inanimate fac...

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...ith which he snared the wariest provincial had brought him such commercial celebrity that all vendors of the “ar- ticle Paris”* paid court to him, and...

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...rise this murderous disaster, which, as you may remember, had its gruesome celebrity. The wind would have prevented the loudest outcries from reaching...

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... Henry James value should not have been treated by his contemporaries as a celebrity. We manage things very differently to-day. The immediate successo... ...weak lungs; and this rather melancholy tradition, together with the former celebrity of the school of medi- cine still existing there, but from which ... ...t at a Shrewsbury or a Buffalo. It is true that the place enjoys a certain celebrity at home, which it amply deserves, moreover; for nothing could be ... ... rages and roars at its base—that I had no difficulty in understanding the celebrity of Vaucluse. I understood 174 A Little Tour in France it, but I ...

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...y when youth and beauty in some sort excuse the transgression. Any sort of celebrity bestows an inconceivable prestige. Apparently for women, as for f...

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...tent neutralizing literature. The most conspicuous result of George Sand’s celebrity was to elicit the fact that France has a per- fectly enormous num... ... fame as a substitute for her disappointed ambitions. Poetry and dreams of celebrity, which had lulled her grief since her meeting with Anna Grossetet... ... and by the cure was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; ...

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...; and as to your friend’s, I don’t see why his should, either. He wasn’t a celebrity himself, I suppose?” “No, no.” “Then the letters can be addressed...

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...that if placed in a proper situation to profit by them, I should ac- quire celebrity, and presently become a modern Orpheus, whose mystic sounds would... ...n of effecting a revolution in the art, and by that means of ac- quiring a celebrity which, in the fine arts, is in Paris mostly accompanied by fortun... ...ry middling success, al- though the Abbe des Fontaines promised to give it celebrity, and, notwithstanding the other journalists, had spoken of it ver... ...ife I had determined to pursue; and was of opinion, that a copyist of some celebrity in the republic of letters was not likely to want employment. The... ... du Roi, Coin de la Reine,—[King’s corner,—Queen’s corner.]— then in great celebrity. The dispute, as it became more animated, produced several pamphl... ...; the first has been shown about in the world; the second has not the same celebrity: friendship proceeds with less noise. Amongst the connections I m... ... of his sentiments with respect to me changed af- ter I acquired a greater celebrity than he already had. But the first time I discovered his insincer...

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... natural enough that a shake of the box should have tossed Nat Fulmer into celebrity, and sent Violet Melrose chasing back from the ends of the earth ... ... the little air-tight salon. While she poured out the tale of Nat’s sudden celebrity, and its unexpected consequences, Susy marvelled and dreamed. Was...

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... these words. My relations with the Marchioness of Dudley had a disastrous celebrity. At an age when the senses have dominion over our 163 Balzac con... ... love surprised her. She felt so strong a necessity for excitement, noise, celebrity, that nothing attained to her ideal in this respect; hence her vi...

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...escape bore witness to a courage, intelligence, and coolness which won him celebrity without his knowl- edge, and that transient fame of which Paris s...

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... ‘but I like her a thousand times better than some conceited sec- ond-rate celebrity who would grimace and attitudinise all the while for effect. This...