1.   A tiny, energetic woman, she took refuge there from grander places that she had made famous among serious eaters in western Ireland.

2.   After a brief stint of teaching at New York University, she was made an associate professor at Yale, where she became famous among students as a lecturer.

3.   For the SFOR troops to capture the less famous among those indicted as war criminals seems to involve little undue risk.

4.   He has been hooked on theater ever since, and is famous among friends for rousing late-night performances.

5.   He is famous among teammates for his poise and laid-back persona.

6.   Her verbal adeptness was famous among family and friends.

7.   In first grade, it was a thrill, and made him modestly famous among his friends when the class began studying rituals.

8.   Mountain-climbing feats in the regions around Everest and Annapurna made the country famous among sportsmen and sportswomen.

9.   Most famous among them was his opposition to the death penalty, which he maintained despite innumerable polls showing that it hurt him politically.

10.   Perhaps the most famous among the dead is the dodo, a comically squat and ungainly blob of a bird.