Sentence examples for old renown from inspiring English sources

In the UK – "A land of just and old renown, where freedom broadens slowly down," said Tennyson – it will be remembered as a time when the pace of change was not too slow, and often in the wrong direction.

The hybrids known as Nephilim first appear in Genesis 6: "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose," and when "they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown".

Genesis 6.4: "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown". Are framed and modelled on Egyptian ways.

The Fairmont Empress is more than 100 years old and so renown that it is one reason people visit the city.

"The intellect gets crippled," he said of growing older, "but glittering renown is still draped around the calcified shell".

Tells about a family that are particularly interested in their family history, and who have been searching for traces of their renown in old family letters.

The New Yorker, February 18 , 1933P. 23 Tells about a family that are particularly interested in their family history, and who have been searching for traces of their renown in old family letters.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, February 18 , 1933P. 23 Tells about a family that are particularly interested in their family history, and who have been searching for traces of their renown in old family letters.

His Grandfather Leopold fled Russia when he was young, settled in Hungary where he prospered a while and then went bankrupt.… Tells about a family that are particularly interested in their family history, and who have been searching for traces of their renown in old family….

The museum there, Historic Deerfield, nearly 50 years old, has gained international renown for its meticulous restoration of 14 of the village's 18th- and 19th-century buildings and for the Flynt Center of Early New England Life, which houses collections of important American furniture, silver, ceramics and related artifacts.

Still, it is the hair that gained the 33-year-old Mr. Ferdowsi his renown, not to mention marriage proposals and more than 50,000 followers on Twitter.