142 examples of grow by in sentences

It is true that everybody has seen the same thing one hundred and fifty times, but this description of indulgence appears to grow by what it feeds upon, and the fascinated victim watches the operation of the workers with a gratification which knows no abatement.

Thus in ancient Greece and Italy the primitive clan-assembly or township-meeting did not grow by aggregation into the assembly of the shire, but it developed into the comitia or ecclesia of the city.

He was not making a thorn pyramid in an Italian garden; he wanted an oak, to grow by the common road of all men's life.

Vices when ridiculed, experience says, First lose that horror which they ought to raise, Grow by degrees approved, and almost aim at praise.

On the other hand, the organs of attack and combat grow by a constant use into the most remarkable of efficient weapons.

Instead of growing evenly, little by little, they grow by "fits and starts," a great deal in a few hours and then not at all.

Part of the inhabitants of this country live like beasts, going entirely naked, and feeding only on the grass and herbs that grow by the river side, and propagate with their sisters and nearest relations, without shame or scruple.

A goddess was the deviser thereof, but having created it for a possession of mortal men, she named that air she played the many-headed air, that speaketh gloriously of folk-stirring games, as it issueth through the thin-beat bronze and the reeds which grow by the Graces' city of goodly dancing-ground in the precinct of Kephisos' nymph, the dancers' faithful witnesses.

Grow by a succession of similar Grow only from a point parts, each part when young just behind the tip. elongating throughout.

Moon follows moon before the great moon flowers, Moon of the wild wild honey that is ours; Long must the tree strive up in leaf and root, Before it bear the golden-hearted fruit: And shall great Love at once perfected spring, Nor grow by steps like any other thing?

Gentlemen, I hope all we are friends, the welkin is skie colour still, and men must grow by degrees; you must pardon me, I must spspeak my minde.

Why, after a time I got so expert that I simply designed an ingle-nook and the rest seemed to grow by itself.

Why can't they consider the lilies, which grow by receiving sun and air and dew from God, and not hopping about over the lots to find the warmest corner or the wettest hollow, to see how much bigger and brighter they can grow?

I HOW TREES GROW AND MULTIPLY The trees of the forest grow by forming new layers of wood directly under the bark.

After the first year, trees grow by increasing the thickness of the older buds.

It is a pity this admirable invention has not been better cultivated, so as to grow by this time into general imitation, when such an authority serves it for a precedent.

An air-plant will grow by feeding on the winds.

They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit No juggling chance can metamorphose them.

He cannot be too careful to please the king, avoid giving him the slightest umbrage, make him feel a dependence founded on confidence and affection, relieve him in his work, and speak to him with a gentle and respectful force which will grow by little and little.

The incentives to progress are the desires inherent in human naturethe desire to gratify the wants of the animal nature, the wants of the intellectual nature, and the wants of the sympathetic nature; the desire to be, to know, and to dodesires that short of infinity can never be satisfied, as they grow by what they feed on.

" "And the man you marry must let you pick your own way, make your own blunders, grow by your own experience.

It is as irrational to try to propagate Christianity by coercive measures of any description, as it would be to try to make plants grow by applying to them mechanical pressure.

The acacia shades the palace's high terrace on whose broad balustrades flowers send forth their perfume from Saxon porcelain; variegated silk curtains hang half-way down before the large glass windows; the floors are polished smooth as a mirror, and under the arch yonder, where the roses grow by the wall, the Endymion of Greece lives eternally in marble.

I am the master of the flowers that will now grow by my labor, though not one of them will know mehow much more must He be the Master of the men He has called into being, though they do not acknowledge Him!

"The cash that you put in my Stocking, my dears, Will grow by degrees, if you leave it for years.

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