14 Metaphors for growing

Oh, dear, I sure am crazy!" IX THE MYSTERY GROWS "Can a body be a body, Yet not a body be? Tell a body, anybody, Didst such a body see?" Of course it was Sammy Jay who was humming such a foolish-sounding rhyme as that.

How still, solitary and grass-grown are these streets!

Closed were the homes of the old Spanish families; gone were the caballeros and the bright-eyed señoritas; grass-grown was the highway to the mines; the flagstaff alone remained flushed with its old-time dignity and importance.

She had, unless rumor was badly at fault, jilted an appalling list of the striplings who believed that beard-growing and love-making were conventionally contemporaneous events.

The account of the prisoner himself, and of the lingering deaths of the brothers; the first frenzy of the survivor, and the desolation which succeeds it I only loved: I only drew The accursed breath of dungeon dew, the bird's song breaking on the night of his solitude; his growing enamoured of despair, and regaining his freedom with a sigh, are all strokes from a master hand.

Ay, there they go, two stag hounds, monkey, and grew, and Toby yelping behind; what a view we have of themthe grew is too fleet for him, he turns him and keeps him at bay till the hounds come up; now they are off again, and now we lose them, vanished like the shadow of a dream.

The merrier Aniela grew, the longer and more funereal became her mother's countenance.

Grow and Holman are the only ones in the House now.

Of course we all realize that the growing of crops is the great foundation on which the well-being not only of the farmer but of the whole Nation must depend.

The growing of wheat was still an interesting and important experiment which was exciting the whole country.

Wine-growing, until some eight or ten years ago, was the chief source of revenue to the people of Figeac, as well as to those in the neighbouring valley of the Lot.

While wild tea is found in Assam and in several of the states adjoining the Himalayas, tea growing is practically a new thing in India compared with China and Japan.

Grain growing has become completely out-of-door work, from seeding to sending to market.

With this handicap removed there is little doubt that pineapple-growing will become a tempting industry.

14 Metaphors for  growing