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Well, then, we were put in possession of the Homer of Chapman, and to work we went, turning to some of the "famousest" passages, as we had scrappily known them in Pope's version.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Nor did he sometimes scruple, in his Governor's Company, to visit the famousest Bordellos; whither resorting out of bare Curiosity, he retain'd there an unblemish't Chastity, & still return'd thence as honest as he went thither.

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Sir Marhaus was called one of the famousest and renowned knights of the world.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Nevertheless, after you have turn'd it and wound it so as you will, the sending of him to the University of Oxford bears the sway; and there to let him study Theology being the modestest Faculty, by one of the learnedst and famousest Doctors.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

For at that time Sir Marhaus was called one of the famousest and renowned knights of the world.

Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

THE HAGGERTY WOMAN, producing her handkerchief, 'The Surrey Rifles is the famousest.'

Echoes of the War 1898

Behind that brown wood Messer Griffo of the Dragon-flag waited for our coming -- Messer Griffo, the famousest soldier of fortune in all Italy.

The God of Love 1898

Cælius, where he saith, It is no marvel if in so great abundance of wealth and fineness he give himself a little to take his pleasure: and that it was a folly not to use pleasures lawful and tolerable, sith the famousest philosophers that ever were, did place the chief felicity of man, to be in pleasure.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece Various 1887

Those strange subterranean fellows who never come to the surface in the newspapers, except for a contemptuous paragraph at long intervals, outsell the famousest of the celebrities, and secretly have their horses and yachts and country seats, while immodest merit is left to get about on foot and look up summer board at the cheaper hotels.

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business William Dean Howells 1878

Some of those strange subterranean fellows who never come to the surface in the newspapers, except for a contemptuous paragraph at long intervals, outsell the famousest of the celebrities, and secretly have their horses and yachts and country seats, while immodest merit is left to get about on foot and look up summer-board at the cheaper hotels.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878