Citations:grow

English citations of grow

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• 1837, Joseph Hall, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, page 431:

  I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the woods that grow with trees;

• 1888, The Southwestern Reporter, page 9:

  And if they find from the evidence that said defendant had permitted said road-bed and right of way to grow up with grass and weeds

• 1906, University of Colorado, University of Colorado Studies, page 110:

  If they are to be made productive they must be allowed to grow up with trees.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 18:

  In fact she was so bus doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.

• 1980, “Hey Nineteen”, performed by Steely Dan:

  She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old.