There can be no doubt that the reckless abuse of this stimulant, always growing the more reckless, as has been said, as means are increased for its indulgence, has a terrible effect on the increase of pauperism and death-rates.
These characteristics of everyday life and its doings are to a considerable extent applicable to most of the great towns of England; but we are treating them in special relation to the widely stretching and ever-growing metropolis.
Looking to its growing importance, we would recommend every one to have always a shilling ready in the pocket.
My eyes were growing accustomed to the darkness, and I was just able to see her deft hands at work upon the fastenings.
A conviction was growing upon me that she and Earl Dexter together represented that third party whose existence we had long suspected.
She made no noise, and I watched her with an ever-growing wonder.
The situation was grotesque, utterly bizarre; but even my sense of humour could not save me from the growing dread which this seemingly deserted place poured into my heart.
She always looked on the bright side of everything; and she had had much joy in her son as he was growing up.
He had been growing ashamed of dwelling upon the thought, ashamed of liking to feel that the Presence was near when he was falling asleep at night.
Bonnie lay wide-eyed and amazed, startled bewilderment and growing dignity in her face.
The nurse looked from Bonnie to the visitor in growing wrath and perplexity.
Courtland sat supporting his silent charge in growing alarm, alternately chafing her hands and trying to force more brandy between her set lips.
The lights were out in most of the houses that they passed, for it was growing late.
She was very angry, and her anger had been growing in force all night.
They wiped his nose with many a flourishing handkerchief, and pointed out objects of interest about the theater in open derision of his supposed ignorance, to the growingamusement of those of the audience who were their neighbors.
The nurse stood, starched and stern, with growingindignation at the audacity of the stranger.
He had not realized how desolate a sea can be when it is growing cold.
They were talking of each other, those intimate nothings that mean a breaking down of distance and a rapidly growing familiarity.
Courtland had been preaching in the Church of the Presence of God for four Sabbaths now, and the congregation had been growing steadily.
But more and more was it growing hard to approach her about the things that were of most moment to him.
Chebe, who was always hostile to the Fromonts, looked frowningly upon this growing intimacy.
He backed out of the cabin, and in the growing light Nat saw that he had his revolver drawn.
No sooner had they started to descend the hatchway than they both were made aware that the smell of smoke came from the hold, and that it was growing stronger.
Meanwhile the smoke was growing thicker, and it was getting into Nat's nostrils.
And what the merchant needs with hisgrowing business is to count himself the steward of some worthy Master.
A man is said to "get on in life," not with reference to his growing older or growing healthier, but as he grows more rich, more prosperous.
We have an easy faculty of persuading ourselves that ours is best of everything and growing arrogant, unfilial and worldly over it.
A growing antagonism based upon widely different economic and social organizations was coming to be felt--felt rather than clearly perceived and openly recognized.
Closely identified with the aggressive spirit of his section, he voiced a growing sense of humiliation that his country should be buffeted by every British ministry.
Map: The West as an Economic Section in 1820] While the South was producing staples for an ever-growing market, it became itself the market for the surplus products of the Northwest.
But as cotton-growing became more profitable and advanced into the interior, the farmer of the uplands found himself pushed to the wall.
In 1790, South Carolina and Georgia, then the only cotton-growing States, produced less than two million pounds of inferior quality, none of which was exported.
May Iverson, Her Book and its sequel are full of the absurdities of growing girls.
Hero stories are always interesting to growing boys, and teachers can suggest to them which are the wisest to choose.
Individual Needs--Food for thegrowing child; for the invalid; for the dyspeptic.
Physical--Study of food values for the individual baby and the growing child.
Her Memoirs of a Baby and When Caroline Was Growing are both worth reading.
Old-fashioned and herb gardens, kitchen and market gardens, growing violets and roses to sell, and the raising of unusual seeds and plants are all topics of interest both theoretical and practical.
Such a system and such a standard also give free scope for the use and expansion of safe and conservative credit, so indispensable to broad and growingcommercial transactions and so well substituted for the actual use of money.
If legislation can reach this growing evil, it certainly should be attempted.
A convention has been concluded with Venezuela for the arbitration of a long-disputed claim growing out of the seizure of certain vessels the property of citizens of the United States.
The duties and powers of consuls have been expanded with the growing requirements of our foreign trade.
There is no ground to hope that in the face of persistent and growing demands the aggregate of appropriations for the smaller schemes, not covered by contracts, will be reduced or even remain stationary.
This proposed legislation is so related to the currency conditions growing out of the law compelling the purchase of silver by the Government that a glance at such conditions and a partial review of the law referred to may not be unprofitable.
Cross-country flights were growing longer and longer, keeping pace with the rapid strides in the development of the airplane.
But his splendid pioneer exploits had borne their fruit in a permanent and growing interest in the navigation of the air.
Still another contest during 1911 was the "Circuit of Europe," which lay through France, Belgium and England; while a flight from Paris to Rome and one from Paris to Madrid served to demonstrate the growing reliability of the aircraft.
If I were a donkey I could crop the hard thistles which are growing on every hand, or if I were a bird I could feed on the caterpillars and creeping things which stir innumerably everywhere.
There was a raggedy blackberry hedge all round the field, and there were long, tough, haggard-looking plants growing in clumps here and there.
Indeed, everything in her quiet world loved this girl: but very slowly there was growing in her consciousness an unrest, a disquietude to which she had hitherto been a stranger.
There was a wide, leafy tree growing hard by the well, and in the shade of this tree they sat down and ate their cakes.
It was growingdark as they went home, and the tears came into her eyes and the ball rose in her throat, and her lips quivered.
Mr. Furze was aware of Tom's growing importance, and Mrs. Furze was aware of it too.
There never yet was a civilisation growing richer and improving its high roads in which the small towns did not dwindle.
He was off to Worthing, where I have no doubt he told some further lies upon the growing of tomatoes under glass, which is the main sport of that district.
In the Virginia creeper we will find tendrils growing from the base of its leaves, that swell at their tips into sucker like disks, by means of which the plant clings firmly to walls and trees in its extensive climbing.
Well, Hannah, old sweetheart, while you have been growing older, have I been going bac'ards and growing younger?
The business of the day was now finished, and as it was now growing late in the afternoon, the assembly broke up.
To contemplate her now as a mother was an ever-growing delight to the genial boy.
By the time that they had laid Nora out in her only white dress, and had fed the babe and put it to sleep, and cleaned up the cottage, the winter day had drawn to its close and the room was growing dark.
My business is very heavy--much more than I can manage alone, now that I am growing old and stout; and I must have somebody, and I would rather have you than anyone else.
His hair and eyes weregrowing much darker; you might now call the first dark brown and the last dark gray.
A strange affection was growing up between him and Ishmael Worth.
Claudia knew that this gifted boy worshiped her with a passionate love that was growing deeper, stronger, and more ardent every day.
Observers of Russian life also noted the growing moral laxity of the population and its complete indifference to public affairs.
She is falling behind us, and the space between is growing rapidly.
The army is growing so rapidly and its needs are so urgent that the efforts heretofore made will be small in comparison with those of the next twelve months.
Then followed with growing vigor the development of the aggressive functions of the air service in which it became a sort of extension of artillery and cavalry and even of infantry.
The Russian situation became no clearer, though there was a growing impression that the Bolsheviki were steadily declining in power, while the forces of order and moderation were strengthening.
The growing importance of aerial warfare was universally recognized during the month, and the deadly efficiency of air squadrons in battle was demonstrated as never before.
At last, growing tired of the fellowship of men, the three Asas sought the solitude of the forest, and as huntsmen wandered long among the hills and over the wooded heights of Hunaland.
Many a field did the monster ravage, many a tree uproot; and all the growing vines, which late had borne so rich a vintage, were trampled to the ground.
You are old, your beard is white, your head is flowery, you are growing childish.
He said that he had seen better apples than these growing in the woods," said she to herself.
He picked out Wallace, just over in Idaho, as a young and growing town where he could do well.
Every last one of 'em saw herself growing rich on Cousin Egbert's money--and let the Belgians look out for themselves.
At the same time the hatred between the two religions had been growing more and more intense.
A large assemblage of rioters, growing in numbers as they advanced, swept over the province of Tournay, after accomplishing the sack of the city churches.
It will never do to claim for Bryant a genius of the loftiest order, but there has been latterly, since the days of Mr. Longfellow and Mr. Lowell, a growing disposition to deny him genius in any respect.
He was on a grave with a broad blue slate-stone at its head, and a shrub growing on it.
The allies, growing anxious, called with loud cries for their champion, and opened their ranks that he might pass to the front.
The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.
Mrs. Hayes thereupon told her that her husband had had some company with him, who growing merry with their liquor were a little noisy, but that they were going immediately, and desired she would be easy.
He followed for a time his father's business, but growing totally weary of working honestly for his bread, he left his relations, and without any just motive or expectation came up to London.
He did not continue long in that plantation before growing weary of labour, he thought fit to threaten his master, so that the man was glad to discharge him, and thought himself happy of getting rid of such a servant.
There he served for some years, but growing out of humour with the place, be made continual instances to his friends to be removed.
But growing idle, and being always inclined to sotting, he chose rather to go errands, or to do anything rather than work any longer.
Soon after which he was bailed; but the persons who became security growing uneasy, he surrendered in their discharge, soon after which he was tried, convicted and condemned.
But at last growing sick of labour, and still entertaining a desire to taste the pleasures of London, up hither he came a second time, and worked journey-work at the trade to which he was bred.
After four years of this life the souls of the warriors pass into birds of beautiful plumage, which live on the honey of flowers growing in the celestial gardens or seek their sustenance on earth.
When I saw that the wound was but trifling, the anger which had been growing in my heart side by side with my care, wholly overmastered me.
The place was four weary miles off, and the day was growing hotter with each passing hour; so I stripped my coat and hid it in a hole among whins and stones.
In the mouth of another I had not minded it, but I had a way of growing hot whenever I thought of my cousin and my lady in the same minute of time.
Before my sword point I saw his face growing greyer and greyer with each passing minute.
Master Wishart dwelt here, since he had ever a passion for the growing of rare flowers, and could indulge it better here than in the town of Leyden.
At any other season Edinburgh is a hospitable city, and it is growing every day a more cosmopolitan one.
He calls this 'a mighty pleasant story,' but takes care to say that he had never seen with his own eyes the lambs growing upon the vines, but only the wool thereof, which the natives manufactured into garments.
So, wouldn't it be better to spare these arms of ours, now that they are growing old?
It consisted of rank weeds growing to the height of twelve feet.
Are not the pride and the obstinacygrowing stronger every day at the South?
From Sabine to Matagorda its course is from south-east to south-south-east, growing more and more to the south as the coast tends to the south, until at the Rio Grande it blows from due south with perhaps a little westing in it.
Palisade is a growing little place with a population of about 400 souls.
Among the most important villages and towns in this and adjoining counties, are Newton, Grinnell, Montezuma and Millersburg, all growing in size and importance.
On this day I passed a fine wheat-growing section in the valley of the Kalamazoo, whose richest part is probably near the Big Village--its namesake.
Captain Glazier's works are growing more and more popular every day.
At the time of my visit, the inhabitants numbered only about 8,000, but it was then growing rapidly and bid fair to become one of the big cities of America.
No other State, in short, has finer facilities for growing all the cereals of the temperate zone than Iowa.
The villages along the road are said to be growing very rapidly.