Worse conditions have always been, and no doubt bad ones will survive for a time, and pass away as mankind outgrows them.

As they grow, they outgrow their skin so they moult the old one after a new skin has formed under it.

Once they have pushed the Sniffers into either isolation or extinction, they may continue to outgrow the territory they occupy and move into other regions where they will do even more damage.

" "Youth is a disadvantage one soon outgrows," replied the Signor.

It is the impulse of simple-minded men like those early disciples, and if we continue straight-seeing we do not outgrow it.

But in the Second Part Faust gradually wakes from the intoxication of passion, outgrows the dominion of appetite, plans great and useful works, whereby Mephistopheles loses more and more his hold of him; and after his death is baffled in his attempt to appropriate Faust's immortal part, to which the heavenly Powers assert their right....

Though a man surrender himself to evil, if there is that in him which evil cannot satisfy, an impulse by which he outgrows the gratifications of vice, extends his horizon and lifts his desires, pursues an onward course until he learns to place his aims outside of himself, and to seek satisfaction in works of public utility,he is beyond the power of Satan: he may be redeemed from evil.

A PEDANT Is a dwarf scholar, that never outgrows the mode and fashion of the school where he should have been taught.

As for those characters and marks of distinction which religion, law, and morality fix upon both, they are only significant and valid when their authority is able to command obedience and submission; but when the greatness, numbers, or interest of those who are concerned outgrows that, they change their natures, and that which was injury before becomes justice, and justice injury.

He outgrows ordinances, as an apprentice that has served out his time does his indentures, and being a freeman, supposes himself at liberty to set up what religion he pleases.

Then if a city outgrows the general law, grows so that it needs powers and privileges not granted therein, it may properly ask the legislature for a special charter.

Schopenhauer says that the genius is he who never quite outgrows the childhood of his attitude toward the world.

"Do you think," said Thomas, addressing Josiah, "that we will ever outgrow this wicked, miserable prejudice?"

[Sidenote: It is full of practical lessons;] Some people, however, never outgrow the child's notion of history as merely a mass of pretty anecdotes or stupid annals, without any practical bearing upon our own every-day life.

She is partially betrothed to Paul Rushleigh, but under the influence of nature, and association with an older and nobler man, outgrows her early lover, and marries Roger Armstrong.

Yet when some virtue much outgrows the rest, It shoots too fast and high to be express'd;

There is a ladder to heaven, whose base God has placed in human affections, tender instincts, symbolic feelings, sacraments of love, through which the soul rises higher and higher, refining as she goes, till she outgrows the human, and changes, as she rises, into the image of the divine.

This is a mental indelicacy which the ordinary man seldom outgrows.

She had never been told about the accident, in the hope that she would outgrow the shock and get over the fear, but she had never outgrown it.

He'll outgrow it (Homecoming) (In The New Yorker

He'll outgrow it (Homecoming) (In The New Yorker

Somethe younger oneswere listening with a species of reverence, which they would soon outgrow, to the official jesting of the coroner.

We mean to outgrow our housesour lease expires after so many years, and then we shall want an entirely different class of furnitureconsequently we purchase articles that have only sufficient life in them to last the brief period of our occupation, and are content to abide by the want of appropriateness or beauty, in the clear intention of some day surrounding ourselves with objects that shall be joys to us for the remainder of our life.

It is easier to outgrow the dishonor of crime than the disabilities of color.

It is always thus with persons of our sexes who contract childish friendshipsone outgrows the other.