292 Verbs to Use for the Word growth

Campanella cast his horoscope and predicted for him a splendid career, exhorting him to make war upon the pernicious school of philosophers, who encumbered the human reason with frauds and figments, and prevented the free growth of a better method. LVIII.

In the second place the thrusting down of the old thegnhood by the Norman Conquest (to which I have already alluded) checked the growth of a noblesse or adel of the continental type,a nobility raised above the common people like a separate caste.

He had been watching, as in his fumes, the fine growth of his possibilities; and with this he turned on her the large warmth of his charity.

Even so abhorrent an object avails to fertilize the soil, and thus promotes the growth of odorous flowers.

'It seems to me,' she said, 'that one who is so constantly engaged in observing and encouraging the growth and development of plants should himself grow and develop.

The tree is not fit for felling until it has attained a growth of seven years, when a single trunk will yield 600 lbs. weight; and, as an acre of ground will grow 430 of these trees, a large return of flour is the result.

But in the southern states generally the great size of the plantations and the wide dispersion of the population hindered the growth of towns, so that it was impossible to have an administrative unit smaller than the county.

Nature is very kind in favouring the growth of those productions which are most likely to answer our local wants.

The rate must nevertheless continue to be very great, in the absence of such causes as formerly retarded the growth of population in Europe.

His successive volumes have shown a steady growth in poetic power and elevation of spirit.

After carefully weighing every consideration, it has seemed to me desirable to adopt the chronological arrangement in this particular edition; in which an attempt is made to trace the growth of Wordsworth's genius, as it is unfolded in his successive works.

Castration causes a persistent growth and retarded atrophy of the thymus.

To others it means something deeper, which they discover in some chance remark of a child's that marks the growth of the spirit, or the awakening of the interest of a child whose development is late, or the quickened power of a child to express; or evidence of independent thought and the power to use it, in some piece of handwork, or appreciation of music or literature.

Of course she was far too young and inexperienced to be of any use in guiding his growth and tastes.

We have witnessed an extraordinary growth of universities, libraries, and higher schools,the widespread increase of commerce, the prosperity of business, the rise in the price of food, and the great coal-strike of 1902.

When the root becomes old, it is almost as hard as wood; but the young carrot, which has not reached its full growth, is tender, relishing, nutritious, and digests

Such trees as there are here possess unusual interest; approaching the crest of the mountains one finds a scattered growth of pinesthe Coulter, ponderosa, Jeffrey's, the glorious sugar pine, the Pinus contorta, and Pinus flexilis, the single leaf or nut pine, and, in scattered tracts, the queer little knob-cone pine.

Not only the spruce and fir, but even the arbor-vitae and white pine, unlike the soft, spreading second-growth, of which I saw none, all spire upwards, lifting a dense spear-head of cones to the light and air, at any rate, while their branches straggle after as they may; as Indians lift the ball over the heads of the crowd in their desperate game.

When in America we wish to illustrate in one word the wonderful growth of our so-called north-western states, we refer to Chicago,a city of half-a-million inhabitants standing on a spot which fifty years ago was an uninhabited marsh.

The former had, it is true, a very thick inner bark; but their dense woody axis, their thick and nearly imperishable outer bark, and their scanty and rigid foliage, would indicate no very rapid growth or decay.

It was surrounded by an atmosphere absolutely fatal to animal life; an atmosphere which, while it stimulated vegetable growth, no living thing could breathe and continue to live.

The knot-grass (Polygonum aviculare), with its reddish-white flowers and trailing pointed stems, was probably so called "from some unrecorded character by the doctrine of signatures," Suggests Mr. Ellacombe, that it would stop the growth of children.

The vicar saw the growth of this intimacy with a fast-lengthening face; for it was very evident that Argemone could not serve two masters so utterly contradictory as himself and Lancelot, and that either the lover or the father-confessor must speedily resign office.

There seems little doubt that the worthy Mr. Boteler at once recognised a wily move on the part of the King, who under the cover of general tolerance would foster the growth of the Roman religion until such time as the Catholics had attained sufficient power to suppress Protestantism.

They have a new root crop at Sellanraa called turnips, sending up a colossal growth of green waving leaves out of the earth, and nothing can keep the cows away from themthe beasts break down all hedgework, and storm in, bellowing.

292 Verbs to Use for the Word  growth