Sentence examples for were especially famous from inspiring English sources

Its lustrewares were especially famous.

I only cared about the celebrities the way all New Yorkers care about celebrities: I ignored them or, if they were especially famous, congratulated myself for ignoring them.

These conceptions are linked closely to the art of divination for which the Etruscans were especially famous in the ancient world.

He was interrogated by Col. Józef Różański, and lieutenants: S. Łyszkowski, W. Krawczyński, J. Kroszel, T. Słowianek, Eugeniusz Chimczak, and S. Alaborski – men who were especially famous for their savagery.

One of these, known as the White Lady, is especially famous.

The southern Polish outcrops of the Holy Cross Mountains are especially famous.

He is especially famous for blending Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist methods of mental cultivation.

(Benvenuto Cellini's bronze statue in Florence of Perseus with Medusa's head is especially famous).

Huichol medicine men, or marakame, are especially famous among the tribes of the Sierra Madre for their knowledge and power.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti is especially famous for an enormous landscape, illustrating the effect of good government, painted in the Palazzo Pubblico Siena (1338 39).

Libanius's works include more than 50 orations of various types, of which the first is especially famous for its autobiographical character.