Sentence examples for of ill fame from inspiring English sources

Her destination was Baltimore where she asked a cab driver to take her to a house of ill fame.

Pollrooms, and gaming houses and resorts of ill fame subscribed regularly as a gracious service to their patrons.

It was a complete break or interlude in the operation of petitioners' house of ill fame and was entirely disassociated therefrom.

It was arranged that I should go, with witnesses, to a certain — house of ill fame, as the newspapers call them.

But before he had got very far with it he was stopped in his tracks by the description of a house of ill fame, frequented by the principal characters in the story, called the Hotel Delmore.

Obviously, the regulation of houses of ill fame, legislation in respect to women of loose character, may involve one of three possibilities: First, absolute prohibition; second, full freedom in respect to place, coupled with rules of conduct; or, third, a restriction of the location of such houses to certain defined limits.

Parker looked at the raw silk curtains, bleached oak furniture and oil paintings on the walls, and remarked, "Well, it looks just like the entrance to a house of ill-fame". While she was on the Vogue staff, she wrote pieces for Vanity Fair on a steady basis.

After finally opening for previews in November – amid reports of egos as outsized as the show's ambitions – a welter of well-publicised accidents and cast departures caused further delays and only added to the already mythical proportions of its ill fame.

He found himself denounced more than once by a badly rattled set of conservative Catholic bishops, and enjoyed his ill fame immensely.

India's government, which is led by the same Hindu-nationalist party that rules Gujarat, is dismayed by the ill fame brought to the Hindu right and to India in general by the atrocities of Gujarat.

He was, in fact, George J. A. Coulson a native Baltimorean whose initial career, in the eighteen-forties, had been devoted more to running a downtown drugstore than to pursuing the sort of ill-starred fame found by his fellow-local Edgar Allan Poe.