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Can it be that the spectator, already stupefied by an aimless plot, nameless characters and fameless songs, still has another hour or so to go?

From Time Magazine Archive

Lucid, pure, and calm and blameless    Dawned on Gettysburg the day That should make the spot, once fameless,    Known to nations far away.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

My father by thy sin is dead, And Ráma to the wood is fled; And of thy deed I bear the stain, And fameless in the world remain.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

If he could even now put himself down nameless, fameless, and without possessions in some distant corner of the world, he could, he thought, do better. 

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

And then, from fifty fameless years In quiet Illinois was sent A word that still the Atlantic hears, And Lincoln was the lord of his event.

From Abraham Lincoln by Drinkwater, John