Do we say growing or dog

growing 8293 occurrences

Already the outlines of the wharf houses were growing indistinct, and the lights of the city were beginning to twinkle.

We came to what was really a curiositytwo kinds of trees growing from one trunk, which this concentration of bores, this mitrailleuse, in fact, improved accordingly.

"It's such a wonderful sightsomething growing."

Kaviak had begun to cry for more punch, and Mac was evidently growing a good deal perplexed as to the further treatment for his patient.

V The day was growing strong in the maple-grove behind Matocton.

Eh, Patricia?" She was thinking, unreasonably enough, how big and strong and clean her husband looked in the growing light.

The colonel raised his voice in speaking to her, for with age Virginia was growing very deaf.

We are all growing, and it is often literally true that we "grow away" from people.

But the other light was growing and Lister turned the wheel.

The old wife grieved to think that Father was growing old and beginning to show his years.

Not only did he see and feel, he could even hear it now: his ears were filled with a humming sound, growing louder and louder every minute, like the noise made by a large colony of bumble-bees when a person carelessly treads on their nest, and they are angered and thrown into a great commotion and swarm out to defend their home.

Again he rested in that green place, and then slowly went up the high land beyond, where it was barren and sandy with the dark stiff prickly bushes growing here and there, and when he got to the top he looked down, and behold!

When he toiled slowly up out of this last green resting-place it was growing late in the day, and he was very tired.

They are not bergs at all, but only your good mountains, and by and by all of that ice and snow will melt and flowers will be growing there.

I was just a growing boy, tussling, more alone than I should have been, and with no guidance or direction, with that problem of keeping soul and body together, which, after all, is the thing with which all of us are naturally obliged to cope all through our lives.

And it is now proved, beyond a doubt, that no reef-building coral can thrive at a depth of more than fifteen fathoms, though corals of other kinds occur far lower, and that the dead reef-corals, sometimes brought to the surface from much greater depths, are only broken fragments of some reef that has subsided with the bottom on which it was growing.

But as another charge was now growing up in the southern part of the city, it is proper that I should refer to it before closing this chapter.

The congregations were growing and the people were beginning to agitate the measure of building a Church.

During the fall and early winter there was manifest a growing spiritual interest among the people, which culminated ultimately in an extensive revival of religion.

No picture of mere memory ever looked 75 So fair; and while upon the fancied scene I gazed with growing love, a higher power Than Fancy gave assurance of some work Of glory there forthwith to be begun, Perhaps too there performed.

[f] I struck and struck again, 380 And growing still in stature the grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.

"Cultured Vale" exactly describes the little oat-growing valley of Yewdale.

For feeling has to him imparted power 255 That through the growing faculties of sense Doth like an agent of the one great Mind Create, creator and receiver both, Working but in alliance with the works Which it beholds.

yet so it was), A weight of ages did at once descend Upon my heart; no thought embodied, no Distinct remembrances, but weight and power, Power growing under weight: alas!

In the flower display are the most rare and exquisite orchids growing jest as common there as weeds along the Jonesville road.

dog 12727 occurrences

Hold, bawling Dog.

The Men of War cry, Pox on't, this is dull, We are for rough Sports,Dog Hector, and the Bull.

I dragged myself at last by intervals, like a sick dog, outside the revels, still hearing them, which was torture to me, even when at last I got beyond the crowd.

"Courage," he said to himself, grimly; "courage, a dog's no worse than a man.

O bethink thee, lest she change thee into a swine, or black dog, aye, or even a small shrew-mouseI've heard of such ere nowor blast thee with fire, or loathly disease, or" "None the less will I go.

A vilely tall, base, and most unseemly dog that hath spoiled me of my lord's sweet money-bags, wherefore I yearn to see him wriggle in a noose.

Here I am worrying about myself like a selfish dog without letting myself be happy over finding you.

I pity a dog in the street, but would I cross you, Garry, lad, to save the dog?

I pity a dog in the street, but would I cross you, Garry, lad, to save the dog?

They found not a man, but a dog.

But, if it were so, how fearfully true the warning!by what a mysterious fate did death dog my footsteps, and "blood haunt the life of blood!"

Once he went away across a field on purpose to kick a very small dog, and ARCHIBALD waited for him.

But after they are free, when they get into danger, or miss their meat, they cry out too, and are willing enough to return to slavery; as the dog which has run away for fear of the whip, will go back to his kennel for the sake of his food.

He was a fine fellow, and had an immense bead, like a bull-dog.

Then he saw his dog dancing frantically about a young lady who held in her arms a little white spaniel, which she had evidently just snatched up from annihilation.

"Your dog doesn't look especially ferocious.

But the nerve of himoffering me his dog!

It's confoundedly unfortunate Markeld couldn't have left his dog at home!

Well for dog 'tis so.

sirand I'm dog-tired.

"I'm dog-tired," he repeated.

'I have had,' wrote Eachard in one of his many rejoinders, 'as many several names as the Grand Seignior has titles of honour; for setting aside the vulgar and familiar ones of Rogue, Rascal, Dog, and Thief (which may be taken by way of endearment as well as out of prejudice and offence), as also those of more certain signification, as Malicious Rogue, Ill-Natured Rascal, Lay Dog, and Spiteful Thief.'

'I have had,' wrote Eachard in one of his many rejoinders, 'as many several names as the Grand Seignior has titles of honour; for setting aside the vulgar and familiar ones of Rogue, Rascal, Dog, and Thief (which may be taken by way of endearment as well as out of prejudice and offence), as also those of more certain signification, as Malicious Rogue, Ill-Natured Rascal, Lay Dog, and Spiteful Thief.'

APELLES painted a mare and a dog so lively

For the fool's judgment is a dog-vane that turns with a breath, and the cheat watches the clouds and sets his weathercock by them,so that one shall often see by their pointing which way the winds of heaven are blowing, when the slow-wheeling arrows and feathers of what we call the Temples of Wisdom are turning to all points of the compass.

Do we say   growing   or  dog