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Sentences ending with growth
- The manner in which certain letters or sounds change when others change is very like correlated growth. [1]
- The garden itself was full of wild green things coming up through the brown of last season's growth. [9]
- In the next twenty years we shall see a tremendous growth. [9]
- The Territories of the Union are generally in a condition of prosperity and rapid growth. [7]
- The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
- In less than ten minutes Mrs. Glow had learned the chief points in the family history, the state of health and habits of pa (Mr. Benson), and all about Cyrusville and its wonderful growth. [4]
- Everybody appreciates certain social properties, and likes his neighbour for possessing them; but perhaps few dwell upon a friend's capacity for the intellectual, or care how this might expand, if there were but facilities allowed for cultivation, and space given for growth. [14]
- You buy and set out a choice pear-tree; you enrich the earth for it; you train and trim it, and vanquish the borer, and watch its slow growth. [4]
- The only real peril confronting democracy is the arrest of growth. [9]
- So the years passed, and love grew with my growth. [10]
More example sentences with the word growth in them
- Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
- How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
- In your estimate you take no account, it seems to me, of the growth of charity. [4]
- In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
- With growth of years had come increase of piety, and it was his custom once a week to gather about him such of the servants as would for the reading of Scripture. [11]
- In a line with that you may see two others: the coral fan, as I always called it from its resemblance in form to that beautiful marine growth, and a third a little farther along. [6]
- I cannot explain why I feel that you have in you elements of growth which will eventually bring you more into sympathy with the point of view I have set forth, but I do feel it. [9]
- There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. [4]
- A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
- Nearer the stockade, where the keepers of the fort might venture out at times, a more orderly growth met the eye. [9]
- Behind the house were clumps of lilacs with a century's growth upon them, and looking more like trees than like shrubs. [6]
- The Vicomte's feelings were by no means hidden processes to Honora, and it was as though she could lift the lid of the furnace at any time and behold the growth of the flame which she had lighted. [9]
- By our conduct we are encouraging the growth of the criminal class, and we are inviting disregard of law, and diffusing a spirit of demoralization throughout the country. [4]
- But the town was mostly of wood, and its rapid growth was a matter of anxiety. [4]
- It is the very bower of young love, and must have done more than any growth of the forest to soften the doom brought upon man by the fruit of the forbidden tree. [6]
- She has insisted upon putting the individual in a straitjacket, she has never recognized that growth is the secret of life, that the clothes of one man are binding on another. [9]
- This is an unmistakable evidence of the growth of the outlaw classes. [4]
- They were gnarled, twisted into weird contortions, as if growth were torture, dead at the tops, shrunken, gray, and old. [13]
- From about the trunks of the trees it has long departed: the tree is a living thing, and its growth repels it. [4]
- Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. [2]
- He walked out to the end of the city's growth westward, where the new houses were going up. [9]
- But all efforts to stop the growth of the city were vain. [4]
- The growth, not to say the fluctuation, of Shakespeare's popularity is one of the curiosities of literary history. [4]
- Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent. [4]
- I have said this without claiming any special growth in humanity for myself, though I do hope I grow tenderer in my feelings as I grow older. [6]
- Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
- And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side. [9]
- I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada -a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. [5]
- They can bear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them; but perpetual contradiction is a pelting hailstorm, which spoils their growth and tends to kill them out altogether. [6]
- The news of the Paris revolution, whose confirmation had reached Berlin in the last few days of February, had caused all this growth and blossoming like sunshine and warm rain. [10]
- In England, on the other hand, with its aristocratic institutions, racing is a natural growth enough; the passion for it spreads downwards through all classes, from the Queen to the costermonger. [6]
- They talked by the hour upon all sorts of themes, the growth of the tree, the habits of wild animals, the migration of seeds, the succession of oak and pine, not to mention theology, and the mysteries of the supernatural. [4]
- Also he singed the hair with a skill and care, which had filled many a thinly covered scalp with luxuriant growth, and his hair-tonic, known as "Smilax," gave a pleasant odour to every meeting-house or church or public hall where the people gathered. [11]
- I have studied the growth of this tree by its rings, and it is curious. [6]
- His features betrayed the growth of this suspicion so clearly that the Master replied to his look as if it had been a remark. [6]
- In due season, the growth of knowledge, chiefly under the form of that part of knowledge called science, so changes the views of the universe that many of its long-unchallenged legends become no more than nursery tales. [6]
- He had watched the growth and development of Carnac with a sharp sympathy. [11]
- This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing--the petition to the governor for Injun Joe's pardon. [5]
- Now and again the dwarf went to the door and looked out at the night, so still, and full of the wonder of growth and rest. [11]
- By analogy, in the continual growth of the Republic, we ought to have a perception of what we have accomplished and acquired, and some clear view of our tendencies. [4]
- The prosperity of the cathedral on these valuable bones set all the other churches in the neighborhood on the same track; and one can study right here in this city the growth of relic worship. [4]
- He alluded to the astonishing growth of Illinois, having grown within his memory to a population of a million and a half; to Iowa and the other young rising communities of the Northwest. [7]
- He remembered gladly that he had contended for conceptions of social miseries according to surrounding influences of growth and situation. [11]
- When she was that age she had near arrived at her growth, and was full as tall as many young ladies of twenty. [9]
- There is no such memorial of the growth of American literature as is to be found in the first half century of that periodical. [6]
- Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them. [9]
- Splendidly developed, softly sinewy, warmly bountiful, yet without the least physical over-luxuriance or suggestiveness, Jen, with her tawny hair and dark-brown eyes, was a growth of unrestrained, unconventional, and eloquent life. [11]
- Eighteen years' growth should make a strong friendship--there was always friendship on his part at least. [11]
- It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. [6]
- Their not being seen did not, however, prevent the growth of the belief in their existence. [4]
- I am not saying that isolated it could attain the highest civilization, or that if it did touch a high one it could long hold it in a living growth, cut off from the rest of the world. [4]
- Few households have ripened a growth of womanhood without witnessing some of its manifestations, and its phenomena are largely traded in by scientific pretenders and religious fanatics. [6]
- We take justifiable pride in the glittering figures of our extension of territory, our numerical growth, in the increase of wealth, and in our rise to the potential position of almost the first nation in the world. [4]
- Firdusi, the great Persian epic poet, compares human beauty to the growth of the cypress, as the highest praise he can give. [10]
- The surgical operation performed upon him was unsuccessful; the strange growth increased. [11]
- So it is our youth drops from us, --scales off, sapless and lifeless, and lays bare the tender and immature fresh growth of old age. [6]
- I never knew one to be so long getting its growth. [5]
- It still keeps on growing--that is a curious circumstance, for bears get their growth earlier than this. [5]
- Indeed, the program of the new British Labour Party seems to point to a distinctly American solution, one in harmony with the steady growth of Anglo-Saxon democracy. [9]
- The undeniable growth of the democratic spirit in England can no more be relied on to bring it about, when we remember what renewed executive vigor and cohesion existed with the Commonwealth and the fiery foreign policy of the first republic of France. [4]
- Yet we speak of the Chinese empire as an instance of arrested growth, for which there is no salvation, except it shall catch the spirit of progress abroad in the world. [4]
- A thick growth of hair covered the mouth below an eaglenose, and on their shaggy heads they wore soft red bonnets. [10]
- A thick growth of chaparral extended down the mountainside clear to Flint's cabin; the most of Fetlock's labor was done in the dark intricacies of that stubborn growth; the rest of it was done in his own shanty. [5]
- A dense growth of ash, oak, gum, and hickory make the shores almost impenetrable, and where one can get a view down some avenue in the trees, only the dim outlines of distant trunks can be barely distinguished in the gloom. [5]
- This roof was of ancient mud-colored straw thatch a foot thick, and was covered all over, except in a few trifling spots, with a thriving and luxurious growth of green vegetation, mainly moss. [5]
- A narrow boat, now concealed from view by the dense growth of rushes, had brought her to the spot. [10]
- And it is not very far from being the solitary confidant, and the single source of inspiration, to the growth of a livelier interest, where a young man and a young woman are in question. [6]
- If extinction, and not life and growth, is the better rule, what a costly mistake we have been making! [4]
- You know I'm not given to sentimentality, but I was never so impressed by the growth in any personality as I was this morning by his. [9]
- No, it could not be he; his tall figure would have overtopped the shrubbery which was of low growth. [10]
- One of my neighbors, a thorough American, is much concerned about the growth of what he calls the "hard-handed aristocracy. [6]
- Removed from the natural stimulus of light, they did not develop legs and arms at the proper period of their growth, and so become frogs; they swelled and spread into gigantic tadpoles. [6]
- A neighbor of mine, who looked in at the growth of the bed, said, "Well, he'd be -----": but I told him there was no use of affirming now; he might keep his oath till I wanted it on the asparagus affidavit. [4]
- I had with mine own eyes seen it in the bud and, unwittingly indeed, had fostered its growth. [10]
- These miles and miles of cottages, hotels, parks, and camp-meetings are the creation of only a few years, and probably can scarcely be paralleled elsewhere in the world for rapidity of growth. [4]
- It is twenty-five miles long, and from one to three in breadth, a free growth of stately pines, whose boughs are full of music and sweet odors,--a succession of lovely glades and avenues, with miles and miles of drives over the springy turf. [4]
- And yet without me, without my profession he was a helpless giant, at the mercy of those alert and vindictive lawmakers who sought to restrain and hamper him, to check his growth with their webs. [9]
- He sincerely loved me, he cherished ambitions concerning me, yet thwarted every natural, budding growth, until I grew unconsciously to regard him as my enemy, although I had an affection for him and a pride in him that flared up at times. [9]
- His pleasure in life had withered with the growth of the harsh conviction that he was no longer loved by any one for his own sake. [10]
- The trees were larger, and the forest seemed of older growth than below. [5]
- Was it a jackal that had plunged into the dense growth to surprise a brood of water-fowl; was it a hyena trampling through the thicket? [10]
- I have heard it said that all three were planted at the same time, and that the difference of their growth is due to the slope of the ground,--the Washington elm being lower than either of the others. [6]
- Or, to put it in still another way, in regard to character and culture generally, the growth of Miss McDonald could be measured by that of Evelyn. [4]
- Its whole river-frontage is now occupied by a vast sand-bar, thickly covered with young trees--a growth which will magnify itself into a dense forest by-and-bye, and completely hide the exiled town. [5]
- This landing, however, is called Point du Chene, and the village of Shediac is two or three miles distant from it; we had a pleasant glimpse of it from the car windows, and saw nothing in its situation to hinder its growth. [4]
- There is undoubtedly in such an office as the American presidency some virtue which, in times of crisis, inspires in capable men an intellectual and moral growth proportional to developing events. [9]
- Such as he, if twisted a little in the growth, come out straight enough in the end. [9]
- Here are some human lives laid down against the periods of its growth, to which they corresponded. [6]
- By accident, however, his business made it necessary for him to be much in Askatoon at the moment, and it was a propitious time for the growth of the finer feelings. [11]
- The thick grass hid his trail; the dense growth of oaks in the opening would serve as a barrier to keep Wrangle in, if, indeed, the luxuriant browse would not suffice for that. [13]
- Life, present and hereafter, was growth, development, the opportunity for service in a cause. [9]
- She thrusts up her plants with a vigor and freedom that I admire; and the more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid its growth. [4]
- It lay at her doors, it was necessary for her growth. [9]
- Thus far, we have considered Old Phelps as simply the product of the Adirondacks; not so much a self-made man (as the doubtful phrase has it) as a natural growth amid primal forces. [4]
- Many times I have come bearing flowers such as my garden grew; but now I offer you this poor, brown, homely growth, you may cast it away as worthless. [6]
- Here perhaps we have an instance of a simple arrest of embryonic development, with subsequent growth and perfect functional development; for either side of the partially double uterus is capable of performing the proper office of gestation. [1]
- Every human being has a right to whatever can best feed his life, satisfy his legitimate desires, contribute to the growth of his soul. [4]
- And when I had tried you I wished your mind to open, to keep pace with the growth of this nation. [9]
- The roofs, which had no slant to them worth speaking of, were thatched and then sodded or covered with a thick layer of earth, and from this sprung a pretty rank growth of weeds and grass. [5]
- The most remarkable growth was the asparagus. [4]
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