It appeared as a faintly outlined cloud, and as we both watched with idle tools in our hands it seemed to grow in size and density.
Sure enough, there was a bright light close to the horizon which, as we watched, appeared to growlarger and nearer.
So I shall grow a while with you, And hear the bee and watch the cloud, Before the dragon on the branch, The caterpillar, weaves a shroud.
I couldgrow very still Like an old stone on a hill And content me with the one Thing that is ever kind, The tender sun.
I could grow deaf and blind And never hear her voice, Nor think I could rejoice With her in any place; And I could forget her face, And love only the sun.
Your half-tones delight me, And I growmad with gazing At your blent colours.
Aye, you are touched; your singing lips grow dumb; The fields absorb you, color you entire .
And dimgrow laughter and pain, But how shall I hide from an old dream I never may dream again?
I may be rich, I may be gay, But all the crowns grow old -- The laurel withers and the bay And dully rusts the gold.
As we grow up, we have to learn the things that are suited to our several professions.
Let him alone, however, and in due course he will fill in the spaces between his angles and grow into a finely rounded being.
Give it all these necessaries, but keep it in the low conservatory, and when it reaches the roof of the building it will remain stunted or grow awry.
We must not start with the idea that we have to work a sudden reformation, but that we have to allow the organism room to grow naturally and in the right direction.
Possibly the pendulum, in its oscillations, would repeatedly pass and repass this mean point, till its range should grow more and more limited, and it should at length find repose.
The Polish gentleman (he was never a count) must have been willing to have Balzac visit his wife again, at Geneva, when their friendship seemed to grow warmer.
It has buried its dead, and brushed aside all the reminders that were left of them, and God in his infinite mercy allows flowers and grasses to grow again on this bloody ground.
Though I do not write often, believe that my friendship does not sleep; the farther we advance in life, precious ties like our friendship only grow the closer.
Madame de Berny's illness continued to grow more and more serious.
Fiennes complained that grass was allowed to grow on Balzac's grave.
I hope, my much beloved mother, you will not let yourself grow dejected.
Few boys and girls grow up without belonging at some time to a secret gang, club or society.
Nor are the two antagonistic, but each is the complement of the other; for the activities of work grow immediately out of those of play, and each lends zest to the other.
But let the book growdull for a moment, and the make-up of the stream changes in a flash.
This is due, no doubt, to the well-known fact that associations tend to take form and grow more secure even after we have ceased to think specifically of the matter in hand.
Not the man who knows chemistry and botany, but he who can use this knowledge to make two blades of grassgrow where but one grew before, is the true benefactor of his race.
Select some act which you have recently begun to perform and watch it grow more and more habitual.
He will growangry and fight rather than allow brother or sister to use a favorite plaything.
How shall the undeveloped cells and fibers grow to full maturity and efficiency?
Youth is the time for pushing the sky line back on all sides; it is the time for cultivating diverse and varied lines of interests if we would grow into a rich experience in our later lives.
And the acts must finally grow into habits, so that we naturally and inevitably translate our ideas and ideals, our emotions and ambitions into deeds.
Sentiments have their beginning in concrete experiences in which feeling is a predominant element, and grow through the multiplication of these experiences much as the concept is developed through many percepts.
Out of the simple interests of the childgrow the more complex interests of the man.
The cheek of his fair model would grow pale with hunger and fatigue while he was rounding a pearl on her neck" (968).
The trees grow straight, equally branched on each side, and of slight and feathery frame.
The Judith "so beautifully and magnificently attired is a portrait of his mistress; while her mother appears in the character of Abra, and the head of Holophernes is that of the painter, who permitted his beard to grow for this purpose.
How witching must have been thy breath-- How sweet the living charmer-- Whose every semblance after death Can make the heart grow warmer!
Beans will grow in most any soil, but the best results may be obtained by having the soil well enriched and in good physical condition.
These shoots are taken for cuttings to grow plants for the fall bloom.
Carnations grow readily from cuttings made of the suckers that form around the base of the stem, the side shoots of the flowering stem, or the main shoots before they show flower buds.
When the plants begin to fail, dig them up, divide the roots, discard the old parts and grow a new stock, as before.
The French or dwarf Marigolds growabout 1 foot high and are more tufty in their habit.
Gloxinias also grow readily from seeds, which may be germinated in a temperature of about 70 deg.
They grow readily from seed, blooming from July to October.
The single varieties grow freely from seed, but if plants of one special color are wanted cuttings should be made.
Funkias grow 12 to 24 inches high, and the flower clusters stand still higher.
An Apple tree in full bearing is usually in good condition if the twigs grow from 10 to 18 in.
They are propagated by the offsets or young plants that grow around the base of the trunk; or they may be increased by seed.
Figs will stand considerable frost, and seedling or inferior varieties grow out of doors without protection as far north as Virginia.
Each influences the other, and as a man may grow fond of a pet snake, whose presence at first horrified him, so a man may put up with a disagreeable partner and become fond of her in course of time.
The Fatza was a sandy spot; the corn grew a few inches high and the maize a yard; on Ripoasa one could not grow blackberries even, for at the bottom the water spoilt the fruit.
The long, beautiful days gave place to short and gloomy ones, the weather began to grow foggy and the leaves of the plantation withered.
I am content to say that this sentiment gives one--and a very impressive--answer to a problem which presses upon us the more as we grow older.
In the three adjoining provinces of Szechuen, Yunnan, and Kweichow they grow their own opium; but they grow more than they need, and have a large surplus to export to other parts of the Empire.
Age when not known is guessed by the length of the beard, which is never allowed to grow till the thirty-second year.
Poppy is not grown in the valley to the same extent as hitherto, because poppy displaces wheat and beans, and the people have need of all the land they can spare to grow breadstuffs.
To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious.
To grow upward; to attain a certain heght; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
Defn: To growbeyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox.
The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length.
To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.
To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
Defn: To grow fat or corpulent; togrow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end.
They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Manioc might seem the answer to human starvation because it will grow abundantly on tropical soils so infertile and/or so droughty that no other food crop will succeed there.
I went so far into sympathy as to grow back my tumor--just as it had the first time--a lump mushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks in exactly the same place as the first one.
I intend to grow no tobacco next year, for it will only rot in the warehouse, and a comparatively small number of hands are required to raise corn crops.
They kept steadily on until it began to grow dark in the forest.
You grow bigger and bigger, Vincent," his mother said after the first greeting was over.
All trees that growin the soil, They live when thou dawnest for them.
David, will you always be good--will you growup to be as good a man as I want you to be?
Aunt M'ri thinks I will be a writer when I grow up, but I think I should like to be a lawyer.
David," spoke the Judge from the other end of the room, "didn't these roses grow on a bush by the west porch?
They grow where there's plenty of mud, don't they?
And as their bodies become effeminate, so do their souls alsogrow less robust.
I am afraid lest, after its first blossoming, my temperament grow effeminate and give way, corroded by the rust of a devouring indecision.
Kiss me, Guido, or I shall grow quite bored," said Pavona.
But," continued Entragues, "must humanitygrow weary intentionally so that there may be amateurs of labor!
The lover felt passion's boldness grow in his heart, like an imprisoned rose impelled by its sap to throw the living treasure of its purple to the broad day-light.
I grow angry against ignorance; that is worse than warring with stupidity.
There are few or no pebbles in its bed, and no reeds grow upon the banks, which are generally sloping and of naked earth but marked with lines of flood similar to those of the Darling.
It appears to grow chiefly on flats which are occasionally inundated.
With the banksia and xanthorrhoea always in sight, the idea of hopeless sterility is ever present to the mind, for these productions, in sandy soils at least, grow only where nothing else can vegetate.
It has often second banks and, as near that river, a belt of dwarf eucalypti, box, or rough gum encloses the more stately flooded-gumtrees with the shining white bark which grow on the immediate borders of the river.
On the riverbank trees peculiar to it grow to so large a size that its course may be easily traced at great distances; and they thus facilitated our survey most materially.
In the ground beyond the plains some casuarinae and eucalypti are occasionally seen in the scrubs which grow on the red sand, and an acacia with a white stem and spotted bark there grows to a considerable size, and produces much gum.
Potatoes of an excellent quality grow there, also gooseberries; and a fire is as frequently agreeable as in the latitude of 52 degrees North.
The sea-ward slopes of the valley were beginning to grow green.
I have always used the name of Percivale, because it was my mother's most earnest entreaty on her deathbed, that, if I lived to grow up, I should do so.
Because, much as we may have disliked Mrs. Brabourne, she was Valentine Brabourne's wife, and we had no right to allow Elaine to grow up quite estranged from her brother.
I did not know you, and now that, suddenly, I have seen you as you are, and not as I fancied you, I must have time to grow used to the idea.
It was no good to grow up if you were only a girl.
Let us hope he will grow better as he grows older; he is but a little chap.
Lillian listened and sympathized until the bright, dark eyes seemed to grow weary; then she bade her sister goodnight, and went to her own room.
They said flowers would never grow in the thick grass, and that the antlered deer shunned the spot.
The summer began to grow warm; the hawthorn and apple blossoms had all died away; the corn waved in the fields, ripe and golden; the hay was all gathered in; the orchards were all filled with fruit.
Why, of course strawberries would not grow forever--it would not always be summer.
Lillian wondered that her sister so often preferred lonely rambles, but she saw the beautiful face she loved so dearly grow brighter and happier, never dreaming the cause.
The belts and spots grow faint as they approach the limb, and disappear as they near the edge of the disk, thus indicating a dense and deep atmosphere.
Probably, however, it originally denoted the month in which crops grow to ripeness.
Not only the tax-gathering emperors of the East, indifferent to the condition of their subjects, but even actively benevolent governments have up to a certain point left the law to grow by other means than formal enactments.
There are more than two hundred fungi which infest the living oak, and myriads more which grow on dead leaves.
