Which preposition to use with grows

in Occurrences 2001%

From somewhere, higher up the path, a stream of water was running quickly in the direction of the great opening, and growing in size every second.

into Occurrences 698%

Quickly it developed and grew into a muffled but hideous chorus of bestial shrieks.

on Occurrences 670%

Gradually, however, these sounds grew on my nerves to such an extent that, were it only to punish my cowardice, I felt I must make the 'round of the basement again, and, if anything were there, face it.

out Occurrences 669%

They seemed to grow out of the shadows.

to Occurrences 574%

the word rose in my thoughts unbidden; and, straightway, I grew to wondering whether this might be the immortality of the gods.

from Occurrences 276%

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.

with Occurrences 256%

Of their aid he made use to gratify his malevolence towards me, for this feeling had grown with his growth, and now seemed to be the master passion of his breast.

at Occurrences 121%

I measured one, growing at an elevation of 4000 feet in the valley of the Merced, that is a few inches over eight feet in diameter, and 220 feet high.

by Occurrences 118%

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.

under Occurrences 94%

" Among the proverbs relating to grass may be mentioned the popular one, "He does not let the grass grow under his feet;" another old version of which is, "No grass grows on his heel."

like Occurrences 85%

The baby has been put in harmony with the laws of naturethe invigoration of fresh air, sleep, stillnessand the little one wakens and grows like a fresh, sweet rose.

for Occurrences 81%

What force has there been in time gone by, which has lived and so greatly grown for nineteen hundred years?

near Occurrences 59%

All the remedy that offered to my thoughts, at that time, was to get up into a thick busby tree, like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I resolved to sit all night, and consider the next day what death I should die, for as yet I saw no prospect of life.

over Occurrences 59%

Tall, nutritious grasses are specially abundant beneath them, growing over all the ground, in sunshine and shade, over extensive areas like a farmer's crop, and serving as pasture for the multitude of sheep that are driven from the arid plains every summer as soon as the snow is melted.

within Occurrences 52%

Yet his frown was not for them, nor did his blue eyes pause at any one of them, whereat hope grew within them and with white hands outstretched they implored his pity.

as Occurrences 50%

He had grown as ashamed of the dream as of the thing he knew was true.

AMONG Occurrences 46%

INCENSE CEDAR IN ITS PRIME FOREST OF GRAND SILVER FIRS VIEW OF FOREST OF THE MAGNIFICENT SILVER FIR SILVER-FIR FOREST GROWING ON MORAINES OF THE HOFFMAN AND TENAYA GLACIERS JUNIPER, OR RED CEDAR STORM-BEATEN HEMLOCK SPRUCE, FORTY FEET HIGH GROUP OF ERECT DWARF PINES A DWARF PINE OAK GROWING AMONG YELLOW PINES TRACK OF DOUGLAS SQUIRREL

about Occurrences 45%

" "The thick, tough husk of evil grows about Each soul that lives," I mused, "but doth it kill?

of Occurrences 38%

This attitude had been growing of late: now it began to take a definite form.

along Occurrences 37%

On the right, as you approach the head, is a deep bay, skirted by a natural meadow, where the rank wild grass, and the pond lilies that grow along the shore furnish a rich pasture for the deer.

between Occurrences 31%

He blamed himself much for the estrangement which he had allowed to grow between them.

through Occurrences 31%

It will need to be a far better world, with a progress sustained and ever growing through centuries to come, if this tremendous sum of wasted youth, of broken hearts, of embittered souls, of moral degradation, of wounds that cannot be healed until all this ill-fated generation has passed away, if this great sum of past and present evil is to be cancelled by future good in the cold balance of historic reality.

beside Occurrences 26%

The Mountain Pine grows beside it, and more frequently the two-leaved species; but there are many beautiful groups, numbering 1000 individuals, or more, without a single intruder.

around Occurrences 24%

There was not a tree in the yard that did not have mushrooms growing around its foot, or a bunch of mistletoe hanging in its branches.

beyond Occurrences 22%

She bade Harry Esmond pay her a visit whenever he passed through London, and carried her graciousness so far as to send a purse with twenty guineas for him to the tavern where he and his lord were staying, and with this welcome gift sent also a little doll for Beatrix, who, however, was growing beyond the age of dolls by this time, and was almost as tall as Lady Isabella.

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