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  • They all grew silent.

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  • They grew up healthy and strong.

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  • Her face grew warmer.

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  • Lisa's face grew hot.

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  • Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.

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  • He grew serious when she didn't respond.

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  • As her intellect grew she became less dependent on this sense.

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  • By and by, the eggs hatched, and a nestful of young doves grew up.

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  • Destiny grew tired of trying to get her attention and finally went to her room to play.

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  • It started with Crocus and Jonquils and then the fruit trees as the weather grew warmer.

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  • The sound of footsteps grew closer.

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  • It grew so dark that the people could not see their way along the streets.

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  • Everything grew bright and glittered.

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  • To the house where I grew up, at the time of Annie's death.

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  • Her irises swirled again and her frown grew.

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  • The warmth grew into a flame and she tossed her head defiantly.

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  • And in it were some odd little pictures, which he never grew tired of looking at.

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  • Her face grew hotter.

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  • Pelageya suddenly grew quite pale and clasped her hands.

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  • It grew even more overwhelming after the broadcast of the eleven o'clock news.

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  • The devil's smile grew as his cold eyes took all of them and settled on Bianca's necklace.

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  • His own unease grew.

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  • Her sense of dread grew as she approached and followed Jonny into his apartment.

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  • The harder she concentrated, the louder Jule's heartbeat grew, as if their bodies were pressed together again.

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  • Her eyes grew misty, and she rubbed them to keep tears from coming.

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  • His sword lowered as the time grew on.

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  • Deidre drank until she grew sleepy.

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  • Darkyn stepped out of the corner where he stood and Deidre grew edgy, fear fluttering through her.

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  • She added, "And you grew up to be nice."

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  • All four Dawkinses joined the showing, which grew to include a widow from Texas, an Illinois couple with a sixyear-old and a handholding pair of seventy-something's with different last names.

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  • Above them, the headlights of the two vehicles grew more distant, finally hidden from view by their angle of descent.

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  • A demon's canines grew when he fed.

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  • Her hand went to her neck, and her thoughts grew disturbed.

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  • She leaned into him, yielding as the intensity of the bond between them grew hot and demanding.

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  • Her eyes grew blurry, and hot wetness slid down her cheeks.

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  • The air grew heavier.

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  • After half an hour, she grew tired of the internal argument.

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  • As her excitement grew, she spoke faster.

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  • Every time he didn't find it where it should be, he grew more homesick.

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  • Uneasiness grew within Gabriel.

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  • Standing before the Dark One, he grew more unsettled.

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  • He prayed to all the deities he never, ever grew aloof and callous towards the humans.

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  • He was left feeling dirty, like he was leading her on with enough encouragement to keep her from taking matters into her own hands but not so much that her tumor grew.

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  • During daylight, when he wasn't fighting the desire to make love to her that grew with the disappearance of the sun.

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  • Feeling trapped before hearing his terms, her eyes grew misty.

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  • There was a long moment of silence from the chamber around her, filled by the sound of her breathing as it grew more erratic, louder.

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  • A touch of coolness grazed his heated frame, which always grew hotter than Hell when he changed forms.

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  • Her unease grew as she went.

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  • Katie's vision blurred and grew dark.

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  • Jade's jaw grew lax before he managed to speak.

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  • A woman gave a cry, and the sound of jostling grew closer.

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  • I started but grew tired.

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  • Her luck grew worse.

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  • She joined the Germans and other backpackers in an Irish dance as the cigarette smoke thickened and the rock band grew louder.

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  • They grew silent as Rhyn entered and stared her down as well.

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  • The shadow world…she staggered and floated through it, hauling him with her toward a pulsing portal that grew blurry fast.

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  • His step grew quicker, and his face brightened as they wound their way through the compound.

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  • His voice grew hushed, as if the all-important guests behind each door might hear him.

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  • One of the portals grew brighter.

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  • Hannah was beautiful in the model sense, with a slender form and large eyes that grew wider when they swept over him.

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  • The coldness of fear within her grew stronger.

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  • Jared.s form contorted then grew twice his size as he shifted into a creature unlike any she.d ever seen.

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  • They grew silent when he appeared, and those nearest him scattered.

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  • As usual, Katie felt a twinge of jealousy at the sight of her sister that only grew when Giovanni—Hannah.s handsome fiancé—circled the car to take her arm and lead her to the stairs to the castle.

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  • His chest grew tight at the thought of Katie.s fate if she stayed with him.

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  • Her face grew red at his easy dismissal of his youngest brother.

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  • His battered body felt heavy, and his emotions grew chaotic.

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  • The scary, confusing world she.d entered weeks before crystallized and grew clear as she watched the lethal battle.

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  • Kiera's tone grew more hurt.

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  • Jetr's voice grew quieter, and he drew near.

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  • She stilled and grew silent, then pushed away from him.

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  • The planet's energy warmed her, ran through her and into him, and grass grew beneath her feet.

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  • Another memory crossed her mind, and her face grew warm for a different reason.

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  • Still he stared until her face grew warm again.

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  • Something his woman said took her interest; her gaze grew sharper, and she moved closer to nishani.

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  • When the midmorning sun grew too hot, she lowered her weapon and handed it to the boy beside her.

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  • They sparred until she grew tired and lowered her weapon.

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  • The battle continued, and the men around her grew tenser when the first fleck of blood appeared on A'Ran's opponent.

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  • They sparred lightly until her body grew warm and her mind engaged.

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  • Her position at the table shifted as the program grew more complex; she dropped her feet to the ground and leaned forward, taking in the rapidly changing situation.

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  • Her small, shapely form grew tenser and closer to the computer as the levels increased.

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  • Mansr grew grave and leaned forward.

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  • Stone-faced, he stared at it, and her face grew warm at his lack of response.

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  • Her heart fluttered at his words, and she grew excited about him wanting the type of relationship like she'd drawn, until she saw him fumbling with the page as if to pull it free.

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  • Her frown deepened when she looked at Ne'Rin, and her gaze grew intense and considering when she regarded him.

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  • Their kiss grew more passionate, the feel of her body against him not enough to sate his growing need.

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  • The pod rotated slowly, revealing the shape of the hulking grey ship as it grew farther away.

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  • The ship grew distant.

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  • The day grew hot fast, though the surrounding peaks shaded her from the sun itself.

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  • It grew to her height as she watched and then bloomed into an orange-pink flower the size of her head, shriveled and died, and returned.

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  • They raced through the quaking halls toward the entrance, all while the strange roar of an ocean grew louder.

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  • They were forced to slow their pace when the trail became covered with slippery shale and the path grew steeper.

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  • It grew straight from the stone; there was no dirt or planter.

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  • Mansr still scanned for signs of life, and A'Ran watched as they grew farther from the temple.

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  • The spacecraft's door opened, and her excitement grew.

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  • Her stomach churned as the day grew on.

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  • The two days were longer than any other two days had been in her life, and she grew more and more nervous, afraid the connection she had to A'Ran wouldn't be enough to make him want her again.

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  • Often we're in wacky places, places like the house where I grew up or schools I attended when I was a kid.

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  • Each time she exhaled the scent grew stronger, urging him closer.

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  • Nearing Elisabeth's house, his anticipation grew.

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  • His confidence in finding a way to make the relationship work grew with each passing moment.

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  • No, my strength grew as I aged.

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  • When Carmen asked if she had more current pictures of her family, Katie grew sullen.

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  • Katie's hand flew to her mouth and her eyes grew large.

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  • I mean, we grew up together, so we have a lot in common, but...

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  • We grew up together.

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  • The days grew warmer, and work on the house on the hill drew to a standstill.

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  • No brush grew within three feet of the fence.

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  • Each trip up the side of the mountain grew harder as chaos erupted along the East Coast and drove refugees through Brady's area of operation.

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  • She sank down against it when her vision grew narrow.

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  • The crack grew fast, flying down the trail towards Gabriel.  The sound of the earth tearing grew louder.  The trees on either side of her expanded, quickly doubling and then quadrupling in size.  Afraid of being crushed between them, Katie darted off the trail towards Andre, who ran ahead of her.

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  • The silence grew awkward, and she found herself thinking of the last time they were together.

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  • Hence, though the village of Canongate grew up beside the abbey of David I., and Edinburgh was a place of sufficient importance to be reckoned one of the four principal burghs as a judicatory for all commercial matters, nevertheless, even so late as 1450, when it became for the first time a walled town, it did not extend beyond the upper part of the ridge which slopes eastwards from the castle.

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  • Malpighi's complete work, Anatome Plantarum, appeared in 1675 and Grew's Anatomy of Plants in 1682.

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  • His tone grew yielding.

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  • I don't remember being born, but I mean, I grew up in Indiana and moved to Atlanta for college and stayed after I graduated.

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  • She grew edgy as they passed the town near the bungalow before pulling up the long driveway to the beach house.

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  • Her step grew less brisk.

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  • Her legs grew heavy, but she pushed herself onward into the forest, away from everything that could hurt her and everyone who could stop her from ending this nightmare tonight.

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  • The air around her grew heavy again.

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  • Lana grew uneasy and watched the sky flare with rocket and laser fire from the battle at the Peak.

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  • She grew cold and her injured arm hurt more and more.

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  • His mood grew worse.

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  • Lana's face grew warmer.

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  • Lana's face grew warm again, and she silently thanked the retired fed for brushing off her grays so diplomatically.

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  • The world grew loud, with voices jumbling with the sound of equipment and possibly the thump of a helicopter.

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  • Kelli's gaze grew haunted, and Lana couldn't imagine what she'd seen during her journey from Georgia to the small town of Randolph.

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  • The tunnel grew narrower as they moved away from the chambers.

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  • Mike took them right, and the air grew even cooler.

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  • The smooth ride grew bumpy suddenly, and Brady braced himself against his seat.

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  • His breathing grew shallower.

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  • She soon grew too restless to sit still and paced.

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  • I think I might've entertained her until she grew tired of me.

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  • The sounds of fighting grew faint and then disappeared.  The stream wound through the jungle until it reached a small waterfall that fed into a massive lake whose black surface reflected the stars and moon.  Katie slid down the hill beside the waterfall to the lake's edge, uncertain what to do.  Gabriel hadn't mentioned the stream ending or the lake.

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  • Her sense of danger grew more heightened at the thought that something had happened between the time Gabe originally gave her his necklace and now.

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  • Hannah's pretty eyes grew dark.  Kris kissed her on the forehead, not wanting his mate to worry, even if he didn't know what would happen once he and Kiki left for the underworld.

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  • His thoughts grew dark as he thought about what it would take to save her.

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  • There's more to everyone than where they grew up, Katie urged.

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  • Katie nodded and sawed at the root, dripped more blood, then sawed again.  She forced herself to continue even as she grew tired.  Sticky blood covered the hilt of the dagger, her pants, the root, Deidre's shoe and pants leg.  Katie kept on, uncertain what might happen if she stopped for a break.

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  • The angel found his footing and took her hand.  They raced through the last of the jungle and across the expanse of grassless yard between the jungle and the palace.  The sounds of demons grew louder.

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  • Rhyn stared at the scenes playing out in Death's outstretched hands.  His heart grew heavy as he watched demons kill humans by the hundreds.  The promise he'd made to keep Katie happy made him feel sick, and duty would never fill the hollow part of him that would remain during a lifetime without his mate.

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  • Dean often wondered to himself why their romantic attraction to one another never grew to something permanent.

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  • Checking the record, her face grew warm on discovery that Alex had once again tried in vain to reach her.

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  • The flush grew warmer.

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  • As the days passed, the little filly grew stronger and they finally released her in the pasture with her mother and sisters.

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  • With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.

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  • He excused her behavior, knowing she grew up in a different environment.

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  • The man didn't let her go until her world grew dark.

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  • The roar of the earth grew louder.

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  • I wanted to give it to you, in case I … Jenn's throat grew tight as she looked at her little girl.

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  • The earthquake grew more intense.

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  • The shaking of the earth grew worse, until the walls began to tremble.

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  • Jule and Dusty grew serious while Damian sat beside her.

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  • His hand went to her belly, where their son grew.

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  • He knew that orchard, and an ache grew at his core.

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  • She saw his upper lip swell as his teeth grew, stimulated by lust.

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  • It's where my family was and where I grew up.

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  • He approached her again, stopping only when she grew tenser.

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  • Anger and other emotions grew within her.

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  • Her world grew red then black while he smashed through her memories.

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  • The storm grew too heavy and she stopped finally, looking around her.

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  • She rested her chin on her knee until her nose grew too cold then ducked her head down again.

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  • Her heart quickened again, and her palms grew sweaty from what she knew was fear.

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  • Jenn's gaze grew distant.

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  • When her breathing grew steady, she shifted.

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  • Her features grew more worried at the mention of her mate.

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  • She grew impatient waiting for the guardsmen to return.

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  • His fangs grew before her eyes, nearly the size of her pinky.

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  • We both learned and grew, she said.

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  • While the hole inside her grew, Jenn's sense of duty returned.

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  • Her hands grew clammy as she circled the wide base of the obelisk to see the names on the other side.

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  • Jenn's throat grew tight at the words, and she thought of the family she'd lost.

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  • The air grew more charged, humming with magic from god and obelisk.

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  • Her chest grew almost too tight to breathe at the thought of losing him so soon.

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  • The Watcher's words grew quieter.

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  • Darian watched them hug, until the ache at his core grew too strong.

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  • Darian's thoughts grew darker as he thought again of Jenn.

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  • The sound of men crashing through the forest grew near fast.

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  • The air of the chamber stilled and grew heavy, as if it meant to suffocate him.

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  • Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.

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  • He rode hard until the horse's breathing grew labored and then he slowed, senses alert.

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  • He heard nothing to indicate danger, but the heat grew steadily with their bodies pressed together.

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  • He grew more controlling as the days progressed, more possessive and erratic.

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  • She recalled the strong, thick man who watched over her as she grew.

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  • Their petting grew more frenzied, more instinctive, and far from the languid, sensuous control he had intended to use with her.

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  • Vara's voice grew pleading.

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  • Within moments after finishing the drink, he grew too drowsy to stay awake and retreated to the bed.

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  • The gleam in his gaze grew brighter.

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  • They traveled until the wagon grew hot.

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  • He grew more uneasy as the afternoon progressed.

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  • Seeing the look on his face, the grizzled warrior's voice grew fatherly.

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  • I guess we just grew away from each other.

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  • It took a moment to sink in and then her face grew warm.

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  • People changed and grew, but she hadn't been growing.

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  • Brush grew close to the drive, but it was obvious that someone had mown a swath down either side of the drive not long ago.

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  • As the light faded from the treetops, the birds grew silent and insects began their orchestra of night sounds.

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  • She studied the berry-like seeds that grew in a cluster at the top of the bush.

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  • Even the lawn contained a surprising amount of herbs, and edible plantains grew everywhere.

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  • The sound began as light pecks on the window, and quickly grew to a crescendo of crashing rocks.

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  • She observed Xander's fangs as they grew.

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  • The fury within him grew.

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  • Eden's thoughts grew darker.

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  • His teeth grew in response.

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  • As he spoke, his incisors grew.

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  • Ashley's face grew troubled.

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  • The instinct that warned her of there being something off about the kid grew when he met her gaze.

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  • Her skin grew so sensitive, the scrape of sand and heat of his hands were almost orgasmic.

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  • Her shaky insides grew warm, her heart racing from fear and his nearness.

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  • Her expression grew interested.

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  • His pinkie nail grew to a sharp point, and he sliced his inner arm near the wrist.

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  • The gaggle of women grew, and she glanced at her phone, surprised at the stamina the three had to keep going for hours.

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  • Sofi's gaze grew cold.

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  • She had no sense of moving, but the air around her grew heavier, cooler.

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  • Her smile faded and her features grew pensive.

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  • The lights grew no closer, even when she quickened her pace.

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  • His incisors grew unbidden; he didn't stop them this time.

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  • From the date when Mr Hart took up his duties at Peking, in 1863, he unceasingly devoted the whole of his energies to the work of the department, with the result that the revenue grew from upwards of eight million taels to nearly twenty-seven million, collected at the thirty-two treaty ports, and the customs staff, which in 1864 numbered 200, reached in 1901 a total of 57 0 4.

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  • The cognate industry of bleaching has been carried on since early in the 18th century, and large ironworks grew up in the latter half of the 19th century.

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  • Among the blockhouses was one which by various enlargements and refoundations grew into the well-known Saalburg fort on the Taunus near Homburg.

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  • His wisdom grew mainly out of his own reflections and experiments.

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  • At Naples there grew up a Cartesian school, of which the best known members are Michel Angelo Fardella (1650-1708) and Cardinal Gerdil (1718-1802), both of whom, however, attached themselves to the characteristic views of Malebranche.

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  • His father died when he was three, his mother when he was only seven, and he grew up in a brutal and degrading environment where he learnt to hold human life and human dignity in contempt.

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  • The court at which he grew up was the focus of great activities, for Philip, by war and diplomacy, was raising Youth.

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  • The reputation of the oracle, which was in origin medical, spread, and with it grew Alexander's skilled plans of organized deception.

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  • In connexion with the Greek professorship Jowett had undertaken a work on Plato which grew into a complete translation of the Dialogues, with introductory essays.

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  • During the separation the synod of Philadelphia decreased from twentysix to twenty-two ministers, but the synod of New York grew from twenty to seventy-two ministers, and the New Side reaped all the fruits of the Great Awakening under Whitefield and his successors.

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  • The results of these first experiments were not encouraging, owing mainly to the poor class of animals, but the exporters persevered, and the business steadily grew in value and importance, until in 1898 the number of live cattle shipped was 359,296, which then decreased to 119,189 in 1901, because of the foot-and-mouth disease.

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  • It was a year in which all agriculture was remitted, in which the fields lay unsown and the vines grew unpruned, only the spontaneous yield of the land might be gathered.

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  • John from the first regarded his son with jealousy, which after his second marriage with Joan Henriquez, and under her influence, grew into absolute hatred.

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  • Thus grew up a number of municipalities - practically self-governing republics - semiindependent feudatories in the feudal state.

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  • Thereafter a considerable trade grew up between Algiers and Spain.

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  • During the next few days he grew weaker and resigned himself to death.

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  • As the city grew, the right to so many days a year atone or other shrine (or its " gate ") descended in certain families and became a species of property which could be pledged, rented or shared within the family, but not alienated.

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  • He had then to assign her the income of field, or garden, as well as goods, to maintain herself and children until they grew up. She then shared equally with them in the allowance (and apparently in his estate at his death) and was free to marry again.

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  • Between 1875, when the first lila was opened, and 1901, the length of the lines grew to 1890 m.

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  • As the supremacy of Rome extended itself Roads, over Italy, the Roman road system grew step by step, each fresh conquest being marked by the pushing forward of roads through the heart of the newly-won territory, and the establishment of fortresses in connection with them.

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  • Agreeably to feudal customs, these nobles, as they grew in power, retired from the town, and built themselves fortresses on points of vantage in the neighborhood.

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  • During the forty-seven years war, when pope and emperor were respectively bidding for their affiance, and offering concessions to secure their support, the communes grew in self-reliance, strength and liberty.

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  • As the companies grew in size and improved their discipline, it was seen by the Italian nobles that this kind of service offered a good career for men of spirit, who had learned the use of arms. To leave so powerful and profitable a calling in the hands of foreigners seemed both dangerous and uneconomical.

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  • As their tenure of power grew firmer, they advanced dynastic claims, assumed titles, and took the style of petty sovereigns.

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  • Contemporaneously with the vicissitudes of home and foreign policy under the Left there grew up in Italy a marked tendency towards colonial enterprise.

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  • The Turks then again grew suspicious of him and imprisoned him a second time.

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  • Another still later myth, which occurs in the epic poems, makes Brahma be born from a lotus which grew out of the navel of the god Vishnu whilst floating on the primordial waters.

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  • Another who " got the seed " and " grew the flower " was Herbert Spencer.

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  • Argenteuil grew up round a monastery, which, dating from A.D.

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  • Fournier (p. 219) says that in France it was not till the 17th century that there grew up a custom of having different officials for the metropolitan, one for him as bishop, a second as metropolitan, and even a third as primate, with an appeal from one to the other, and that it was an abuse due to the parlements which strove to make the official independent of the bishop. In England there has been, for a long time, a separate diocesan court of Canterbury held before the " commissary."

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  • Under their protection, and favoured by its site, the city rapidly grew in wealth and population, the zenith of its power and prosperity being reached between the 13th and 15th centuries, when it was the emporium of the trade of Germany and the Low Countries, the centre of a great cloth industry, and could put some 20,000 armed citizens into the field.

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  • All the rest of the canonical works grew up in the schools of the Order, and most of them appear to contain documents, or passages, of different dates.

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  • The boy, according to the legends which soon grew round his life, was a " wonder-child," and early displayed marvellous capacity.

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  • The plan of Shakespeare's Stratford at least is preserved, for the road crossing Clopton's bridge is an ancient highway, and forks in the midst of the town into three great branches, about which the village grew up. The high cross no longer stands at the marketplace where these roads converged.

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  • The Englishman Grew and the Italian Malpighi almost simultaneously published ifiustrated works on the subject, in which they described, for the most part very accurately, what they saw with the new instruments.

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  • It is sufficient to note here that cells were first of all discovered in various vegetable tissues by Robert Hooke in 1665 (Micrographia); Malpighi and Grew (1674-1682) gave the first clear indications of the importance of cells in the building up of plant tissues, but it was not until the beginning of the 19th century that any insight into the real nature of the cell and its functions was obtained.

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  • Colchicum was known to the Greeks under the name of KoXXucov, from KoXXIs, or Colchis, a country in which the plant grew; and it is described by Dioscorides as a poison.

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  • It is generally divided into the Great and the Small Masorah, forming together an apparatus criticus which grew up gradually in the course of centuries and now accompanies the text in most MSS.

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  • From the latter there grew a gigantic gourd.

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  • Trade flourished; the corporations of bargemen and the like on the Rhone made money; the many towns grew rich and could afford splendid public buildings.

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  • Town life, however, grew.

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  • From northern Italy, as it would seem, they adopted a style of architecture which grew in their hands, both in Normandy and in England, into a marked and living form of art.

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  • The conquest of England was made directly from Normandy, by the reigning duke, in a comparatively short time, while the conquest of Sicily grew out of the earlier and far more gradual conquest of Apulia and Calabria by private men.

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  • They were the true populus Romanus, alongside of whom grew up a secondary Roman people, the plebs or commons.

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  • But their position as a nobility or privileged class arose solely because a class with inferior rights to their own grew up around them.

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  • The old people of Rome thus grew, or rather shrank up, into a nobility by the growth of a new people by their side which they declined to admit to a share in their rights, powers, and possessions.

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  • The four Ionic tribes at Athens seem to have answered very closely to the three patrician tribes at Rome; but the Athenian demos grew up in a different way from the Roman plebs.

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  • The assembly of curiae at Rome, originally the democratic assembly of the original people, first grew into an aristocratic assembly, and then died out altogether as a new Roman people, with its own assembly, grew up by its side.

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  • The Great Council of Venice was anything but a primitive institution; it was the artificial institution of a late age, which grew at the expense of earlier institutions, of the prince on the one side and of the people on the other.

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  • A nobility of this kind often gave way to a democracy which either proved as turbulent as itself, or else grew into an oligarchy ruling under democratic forms. Thus at Florence the old nobles became the opposite to a privileged class.

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  • But something like a new nobility presently grew up among the commons themselves; there were popolani grossi at Florence just as there were noble plebeians at Rome.

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  • As certain sanctuaries, Shiloh, Shechem, Bethel, &c., grew in importance, the priesthoods that officiated at them would acquire special prestige.

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  • The talismanic name Immanuel became the nucleus out of which the later Messianic prophecies of Isaiah grew.

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  • Bamberg, first mentioned in 902, grew up by the castle (Babenberch) which gave its name to the Babenberg family.

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  • Out of this abbey a diocese grew, to be united with that of Killaloe in the 12th century.

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  • The golden apples grew on a tree guarded by Ladon, the everwatchful dragon.

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  • In 1857 he became tutor and his fame as a scholar grew rapidly.

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  • It may be conjectured that the Pineta grew on a large peninsula somewhat resembling the Lida of Venice.

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  • The second decision grew out of the attempt of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to prevent other roads from accepting freight from the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railroad, against which a "legal" strike had been declared.

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  • When the boy grew up, he went to some funeral games at Thebes, and was recognized by the mark of a dragon on his body.

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  • It was about this time that the town of Tuchkov, with which it was later (1830) incorporated, grew up outside of the fortifications.

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  • The Order of Dominicans grew out of the little band of volunteers that had joined Dominic in his mission among the Albigenses.

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  • As there is no evidence of Roman or British settlement, it is probable that Sherborne (Scireburn, Shireburne) grew up after the Saxon conquest of the country from the Corn-Welsh in the middle of the 7th century.

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  • Under Antonius Felix (52-60) the revolutionary movement grew and spread.

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  • If fugitives are for the next half-century to be met with in all parts of Europe, yet, especially in the Levant, there grew up thriving Jewish communities often founded by Spanish refugees.

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  • After the abolition of slavery, farms greatly decreased in size and increased in number; the number grew from 68,023 in 1870 to 220,803 in 1900; the average size fell from 369.7 acres in 1860 to 82.6 acres in 1900.

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  • The shrimp fishery, too, grew during the same period.

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  • It grew very slowly, partly because of the hostility of the Indians and partly because of the incapacity of the French as colonizers.

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  • In the midst of these unhappy surroundings religion became more inward in men of real piety and the desire grew among them to draw closer the bonds that united them to one another.

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  • The peaceful progress of Brahmanism was hindered by the doctrine of the Indian prince Gotama, called the Buddha, which grew into one of the greatest religions of the world.

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  • Thus Oedipus grew up ignorant of his parentage, and, meeting Laius in a narrow way, quarrelled with him and slew him.

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  • He was forgiven by his party in the following year, but not until the opposition, provoked by the retention of his position under Tyler, had ruined whatever This case grew out of the Canadian rebellion of 1837.

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  • Saalfeld grew up around the abbey founded in 1075 by Anno, archbishop of Cologne, and the palace built by the emperor Frederick I.

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  • Then the empress grew impatient and compelled him (1791) to return to Jassy to conduct the peace negotiations as chief Russian plenipotentiary.

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  • The Mahratta power grew and prospered till it embraced all western and most of central India.

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  • As their ambition grew the chiefs began to organize their troops after the system learnt from the English and French.

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  • His adopted son grew up to be the Nana Sahib, of infamous memory, who took a leading part in the Mutiny.

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  • Tampa grew rapidly after the completion of the first railway thither in 1884, and in 1886 it was chartered as a city and became a port of entry.

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  • So all that year not a blade of corn grew on the earth, and men would have died of hunger if Zeus had not persuaded Pluto to let Proserpine go.

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  • Having arrived at the conclusion that the food of plants consists of minute particles of earth taken up by their rootlets, it followed that the more thoroughly the soil in which they grew was disintegrated, the more abundant would be the " pasture " (as he called it) to which their fibres would have access.

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  • Such reliance did he place in the pulverization of the soil that he grew as many as thirteen crops of wheat on the same field without manure.

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  • Dawson of Frogden in Roxburghshire is believed to have been the first who grew turnips as a field crop to any extent.

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  • Just as the historical school grew up along with the greatest constructive achievement of the 29th century, namely, the consolidation of Germany, so the application to modern problems of the methods of that school has been called forth by the constructive needs of the present generation.

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  • The successful course of the campaign and the large sums which he sent from Italy to the French exchequer served to strengthen his hold over the Directors, and his constructive policy grew more decided.

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  • But even in this crowning triumph the cramping egotism of his nature - a mental vice which now grew on him rapidly - fatally narrowed his outlook and led him to commit an irretrievable blunder.

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  • But their claims to be the principal authors of the Aegean remains grew fainter with every fresh Aegean discovery, and every new light thrown on their own proper products; with the Cretan revelations they ceased altogether to be considered except by a few Homeric enthusiasts.

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  • As he grew older his father took him on all his rounds, reviewing troops, inspecting studs, foundries, dockyards and granaries.

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  • In 1902 the surrounding highlands were found to be suitable for European settlement, and Nairobi speedily grew in importance; in 1907 the headquarters of the administration were transferred to it from Mombasa.

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  • It grew with the growing state whose religious centre it was, and was adorned with the spoils of countless other buildings, both in the East and on the Italian mainland.

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  • As the state grew in wealth and importance the church grew with it.

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  • The present magnificent building was a slow growth extending over three centuries and expanding gradually as the republic grew in riches.

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  • Other artists, of whom we know nothing else, such as Antonio Busetto, Antonio Foscolo, Gasparino Rosso, Giacomo da Como, Marco da Legno and others, were called in to help in evolving this masterpiece of decorated architecture, affording us an example of the way in which the ducal palace and other monuments of Venice grew out of the collaboration of numerous nameless artists.

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  • From very early days executive officers known as " select-men," constables, clerks of markets, hog reeves, packers of meat and fish, &c., were chosen; and the select-men, particularly, gained power as the attendance of the freemen on meetings grew onerous.

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  • Its characteristic civilization grew out of a mixture of various elements, Arabic, Aramaic, Greek and Roman.

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  • No large cities grew up within its territory, and its chief places were mainly of strategic importance.

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  • The seed was saved and gave rise to a row of plants all of which grew healthily in an infected field, whereas 95% of ordinary Sea Island cotton plants from seed from a non-infected field planted alongside as a control were killed.

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  • Whatever grew on that tree was thought to be a gift from heaven, more especially the mistletoe.

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  • Following the purchase from the Indians of the country, now known as the Platte Purchase, in 1836, a settlement grew up about this trading post, and in 1843 Robidoux laid out a town here and named it St Joseph in honour of his patron saint.

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  • The culture developed in the West during the 13th century was not only permitted to develop by the protection of the Crusades, it grew upon materials which the Crusades enabled it to import from the East.

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  • With the frequent remarriages of the heiresses of the kingdom, relationships grew confused and family quarrels frequent; and when Sibylla carried the crown to Guy de Lusignan, a newcomer disliked by all the relatives of the crown, she sealed the fate of the kingdom.

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  • But it is more probable that we have it in the form in which it grew up - a series of observations by the original author with interspersed editorial remarks; and it is better to preserve the existing form as giving a record of the process of growth.

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  • But while there are thus some grounds for supposing that the idea of transmutation grew out of the practical receipts of Alexandrian Egypt, the alchemy which embraced it as a leading principle was also strongly affected by Eastern influences such as magic and astrology.

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  • Thus there gradually grew up a tendency to avoid the term, and in accordance with the idea of Ex.

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  • The site of this precinct, in which the sacred olive tree of Athena grew, has been almost certainly fixed by an inscription found in the bastion of Odysseus.

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  • In the beginning of i 556 Ignatius grew very weak and resigned the active government to three fathers, Polanco, Madrid and Natal.

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  • He had long had the ear of the Chamber in matters of social legislation, and after the Panama scandals had discredited so many politicians his influence grew.

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  • The Carnegie Institute in the decade increased the extent of its service to the community; its central library, with 464,313 volumes, had 8 branches, 16 stations, 128 school stations, 10 club stations and 8 playground stations, with a circulation of 1,363,365 books; both the scientific museum and the art department added greatly to their collections; in the school of technology the enrolment grew from 2,102 students in 1909 to 4,982 students in 1920, including those in the departments of science and engineering, arts, industries and the Margaret Morrison school for women.

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  • The university of Pittsburgh, established in 1908 by assembling the scattered departments of what was the Western University of Pennsylvania, and taking over 43 ac. near the Carnegie Institute for a campus, grew rapidly in its new location, and in 1920 numbered 4,979 students.

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  • The society grew in strength during the Civil War, when the increased demand for coal caused an influx of miners, many of them lawless characters, into the coal-fields, and in1862-1863it opposed enlistments in the Federal Army and roughly treated some of the enlisting officers.

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  • At Cedar Rapids are Coe College (co-educational; Presbyterian), which grew out of the Cedar Rapids Collegiate Institute (1851), was named in honour of Daniel Coe, a benefactor, and was chartered under its present name and opened in 1881; the Interstate Correspondence schools, and the Cedar Rapids business college.

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  • Meanwhile, Elizabeth's position in Holland grew more and more unsatisfactory.

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  • Built on the horns of a sheltered bay, Hartlepool (Hertepull, Hertipol), grew up round the monastery founded there in 640, but was destroyed by the Danes in Soo and rebuilt by Ecgred, bishop of Lindisfarne.

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  • Three of these questions grew out of the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of western territory as a result of the Mexican War.

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  • The police station is partly accommodated in an ancient square tower, once the stronghold of the Johnstones, for a long period the ruling family under whose protection the town gradually grew up. At Dryfe Sands, about 2 m.

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  • Beethoven, we know, lost sympathy with his early works as he grew older; but that was because his later works absorbed his interest, not because his early works misrepresented his ideals.

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  • Here young Jalal-uddin grew up, and in 1226 married Jauhar Khatun, the daughter of Laid Sharaf-uddin of Samarkand.

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  • From a mining settlement the city grew as the inequalities of the site permitted.

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  • His reputation for sanctity attracted many pilgrims. Important gifts were made to the church which contained his body, and a monastery grew up hard by.

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  • But in spite of every such effort opinion steadily grew.

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  • Wesley had at first to take charge of the contributions, but as they grew larger he appointed stewards to receive the money, to pay debts, and to relieve the needy.

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  • This necessity grew more urgent every year as Methodism extended.

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  • In 1771, Francis Asbury, the Wesley of America, crossed the Atlantic. Methodism grew rapidly, and it became essential to provide its people with the sacraments.

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  • The first accurate description of the plant is given by Theophrastus, from whom we learn that it grew in shallows of 2 cubits (about 3 ft.) or less, its main root being of the thickness of a man's wrist and 10 cubits in length.

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  • It grew in the east and south of the island, where it was introduced during the Arab occupation.

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  • Victrix was situated near the site of the cathedral, and a municipality (colonia) grew up, near where the railway station now is, on the opposite side of the Ouse.

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  • Wilberforce, Charles Grant, John Thornton and his son Henry, were among the philanthropists who contributed to his funds; in 1798 the Sunday School Society (established 1785) extended its operations to Wales, making him its agent, and Sunday Schools grew rapidly in number and favour.

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  • The project of the Code Napoleon, however - the code itself not being available in Louisiana, though promulgated in France in 1804 - was used by the compilers in the arrangement and substance of their work; and the French traditions of the colony, thus illustrated, were naturally introduced more and more into the organic commentaries and developments that grew up around the Code Napoleon.

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  • But as the administration grew stronger, the position of the peasantry became worse.

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  • At first she was suckled by a she-bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew up to be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the chase, like the virgin goddess Artemis.

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  • Meanwhile in Asia also the Ottoman Empire had been consolidated and extended; but from 1501 onwards the ambitious designs of the youthful Shah Ismail in Persia grew more and more threatening to its security; and though Bayezid, intent on peace, winked at his violations of Ottoman territory and exchanged friendly embassies with him, a breach was sooner or later inevitable.

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  • Meanwhile the sultan's whole efforts were directed towards the reform of the country; the newly-instituted militia was in every respect a success; it grew in numbers, and hopes were entertained that it would gain popularity.

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  • Napoleon's solution grew, as time went on and circumstances changed, in scope and complexity.

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  • It grew with great rapidity.

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  • The building of railways during the decade 1850-1860 greatly increased this importance, and the city grew with great rapidity.

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  • The increase of the population of Cardiff during the 19th century was phenomenal; from 1870 inhabitants in 180r, and 6187 in 1831 it grew to 3 2, 954 in 1861.

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  • It grew rapidly after 1900, and its territory was increased in 1903.

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  • As the port of that capital and the only open port below Panama it grew rapidly in importance and wealth.

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  • The counts, of course, as over-lords, had their Vogt (advocatus) in the town, but this official, as the city grew in power, became subordinate to the Rath, as at Lubeck.

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  • His subjects at length grew weary of the heavy expense of maintaining a large military force on the Belgian frontier and in 1839 the king gave way.

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  • His powers of organization were strongly exhibited in the Pastors' College, the Orphanage (at Stockwell), the Tabernacle Almshouses, the Colportage Association for selling religious books, and the gratuitous book fund which grew up under his care.

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  • The seedlings rapidly developed and in most places in which they were planted grew into large trees which furnished satisfactory latex when tapped in their sixth or seventh year.

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  • The production of butter for export began only in 1894, but grew with great rapidity.

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  • But between the Lake of Zurich and the Walensee the huge desolate alluvial plain grew ever in size, while great damage was done by the river, which overflowed its bed and the dykes built to protect the region near it.

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  • In the middle of the 17th century the sermon became one of the most highly-cultivated forms of intellectual entertainment in Great Britain, and when the theatres were closed at the Commonwealth it grew to be the only public form of eloquence.

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  • The conclusions arrived at by earlier writers are combated by Joseph Bedier in the first volume, "Le Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange" (1908), of his Legendes epiques, in which he constructs a theory that the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange grew up round the various shrines on the pilgrim route to Saint Gilles of Provence and Saint James of Compostella - that the chansons de geste were, in fact, the product of 11th and 12th century trouveres, exploiting local ecclesiastical traditions, and were not developed from earlier poems dating back perhaps to the lifetime of Guillaume of Toulouse, the saint of Gellone.

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  • In these circumstances there grew up in Rome a class of wealthy ' men, whose sole occupation it was to amass large fortunes by speculation,' and who found a most lucrative field of enterprise ' in state contracts and the farming of the public revenues.

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  • Owing to the conflict of claims which grew out of the controversy, maritime states had to moderate their demands and base their pretensions to maritime dominion on the principle that it extended seawards from land.

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  • While the population of Brazil continued to increase, the moral and intellectual culture of its inhabitants was left in great measure to chance; they grew up with those robust and healthy sentiments which are engendered by the absence of false teachers, but with a repugnance to legal ordinances, and encouraged in their ascendancy over the Indians to habits of violence and oppression.

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  • For the first year of his term of office he kept seditious attempts in check, but discontent grew apace.

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  • It is probable that the Ottadeni built a fort or camp on the rock on which Edinburgh Castle now stands, which was thus the nucleus around which, in course of time, grew a considerable village.

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  • This epoch, when grass grew even in High Street, long lingered in the popular memory as the " dark age."

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  • In a few years it grew into a place of some importance.

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  • Out of the twofold grew the threefold ministry, so that each local church was governed by one episcopus surrounded by a council of presbyters.

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  • A tree close to the house still bears the name of Charles's oak, but tradition goes no further than to assert that it grew from an acorn of the original tree.

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  • New generations grew up almost as ignorant as their fathers, but not with the same sense of dependence upon the white men.

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  • Tyler thereupon grew insolent, and in the altercation that ensued the rebel leader was killed by the mayor, Sir William Walworth, and John Standwick, one of the king's squires.

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  • Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court, and became a great favourite with Louis XIV., who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.

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  • The circle of spearmen around the king grew less and less, and in the end James and a few of his nobles were alone left standing.

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  • The undoubted abuses which grew up, especially during the middle ages, raised up, at the time of the Reformation, fresh adversaries of the cult of the saints.

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  • Having lost his father in 1254 he grew up at the court of his uncle and guardian, Louis II.

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  • The Gild of the Holy Trinity is mentioned in 1 379, and grew rich and powerful.

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  • The city of Bamberg grew up around the ancestral castle of the family.

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  • The town grew up around the castle but never received a charter or had a governing body.

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  • The old citizens thus gradually grew into an exclusive or aristocratic body, called yauopoc or landowners.

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  • During the long tyranny of Dionysius the city grew greatly in size, population and grandeur.

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  • Syracuse rose again out of her desolation - grass, it is said, grew in her streets - and, with an influx of a multitude of new colonists from Greece and from towns of Sicily and Italy, once more became a prosperous city.

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  • But the reputation of Galen grew slowly; he does not appear to have enjoyed any pre-eminence over other physicians of his time, to most of whom he was strongly opposed in opinion.

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  • All that can with certainty be said is that a school or collection of schools gradually grew up in which especially medicine, but also, in a subordinate degree, law and philosophy were taught.

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  • The iatro-physical school of medicine grew out of physiological theories.

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  • Under his guidance the church grew to be one of the strongest of that denomination in the West, and Mr Collyer himself came to be looked upon as one of the foremost pulpit orators in the country.

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  • With the others churches of the Anglican Communion the archbishop's relations were cordial in the extreme and grew closer as time went on.

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  • The original city grew up on the site of the City of London of the present day, on a slight eminence intersected by the Walor Wall-brook, and flanked on the west by the river Fleet.

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  • Continuing westward, the most important stream was Tyburn, which rose at Hampstead, and joined the Thames through branches on either side of Thorney Island, on which grew up the great ecclesiastical foundation of St Peter, Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey.

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  • The position of the city grew in importance, but the citizens suffered from severe laws and from serious restrictions upon their liberties.

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  • Grass grew in the area of the Royal Exchange, at Whitehall, and in the principal streets of the city.

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  • Apparently the title was occasionally used, and the use gradually grew into a prescriptive right.

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  • New strong fortifications were erected, and the town grew steadily in importance, serving as the capital of the whole Banat.

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  • But as their numbers grew in the autumn, and as their headquarters staff noted how the invaders were dwindling away owing to transfers to Salonika and to no drafts arriving to replenish wastage, it became possible to keep a number of the Ottoman divisions in reserve, well in rear of the fighting fronts or else on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.

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  • They grew apparently throughout life, and were implanted to a great depth in the jaws, being 7 or 8 in.

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  • His authority grew steadily.

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  • Assyria grew in power at the expense of Babylonia, and a time came when the Kassite king of Babylonia was glad to marry the daughter of Assur-yuballidh of Assyria, whose letters to Amenophis (Amon-hotep) IV.

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  • This tower, according to James, was named "after its inventor"; but the real derivation appears to be the name of a wild myrtle which grew thickly around.

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  • From it we pass without a break, merely narrowing the application as the conception of sacredness grew clearer and less associated with magic, into early criminal law with its physical sanctions.

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  • It is to be observed that she appears far more conspicuously in the Apolline myths than in those which grew round the great centres of Artemis worship, the reason being that the idea of Apollo and Artemis as twins is one of later growth on Greek soil.

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  • Probably the ceremony which grew into feudal homage, and the oath of fealty, certainly the honourable position of the vassal and his pride in the relationship, the strong tie which bound lord and man together, and the idea that faith and service were due on both sides in equal measure, we may trace to German sources.

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  • About the office of king more of this earlier conception gathered than elsewhere in the state, and gradually grew, aided not merely by traditional ideas, but by the active influence of the Bible, and soon of the Roman law.

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  • Einbeck grew up originally round the monastery of St Alexander (founded 1080), famous for its relic of the True Blood.

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  • The town grew up around three forts established in close proximity - St James (British), Crevecoeur (Dutch) and Christiansborg (Danish).

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  • The fortress grew in importance, and was afterwards made a municipium; and here Marcus Aurelius died in 180.

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  • Educated at the semi-Oriental provincial court of Juan Manuel, duke of Penafiel, Inez grew up side by side with Costanga, the duke's daughter by a scion of the royal house of Aragon, and her own cousin.

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  • Allentown is the seat of a state homoeopathic hospital for the insane, of the Allentown College for Women (Reformed Church, 1867), and of Muhlenberg College (1867), an Evangelical Lutheran institution which grew out of the Allentown Seminary (established in 1848 and incorporated as the "Allentown Collegiate Institute and Military Academy" in 1864); in 1907 the college had 191 students, of whom 109 were in the Allentown Preparatory School (1904), formerly the academic department of the college and still closely affiliated with it.

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  • At the beginning of the 11th century the citizens established a constitution, composed of a general council or legislative assembly and a credenza or executive; and during the next century they were engaged in wars with Venice and Vicenza for the right of water-way on the Bacchiglione and the Brenta - so that, on the one hand, the city grew in power and selfreliance, while, on the other, the great families of Camposampiero, D'Este and Da Romano began to emerge and to divide the Paduan district between them.

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  • As trade and intercourse diminished Konia grew poorer and more ruinous.

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  • The longer Christina ruled, the more anxious for the future fate of her empire grew the men who had helped to build it up. Yet she gave fresh privileges to the towns; she encouraged trade and manufactures, especially the mining industries of the Dales; in 1649 she issued the first school ordinance for the whole kingdom; she encouraged foreign scholars to settle in Sweden; and native science and literature, under her liberal encouragement, flourished as they had never flourished before.

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  • Comte is in no true sense a follower of Saint-Simon, but it was undoubtedly Saint-Simon who launched him, to take Comte's own word, by suggesting the two starting-points of what grew into the Comtist system - first, that political phenomena are as capable of being grouped under laws as other phenomena; and second, that the true destination of philosophy must be social, and the true object of the thinker must be the reorganization of the moral, religious and political systems. We can readily see what an impulse these far-reaching conceptions would give to Comte's meditations.

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  • After six years the differences between the old and the young philosopher grew too marked for friendship. Comte began to fret under Saint-Simon's pretensions to be his director.

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  • He grew less than ever willing to come forward and face the world; his health became "variable and his spirits indifferent."

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  • He had valued more than anything else a teacher's influence over other minds, and as he began to feel that he was losing it he grew jealous of the success of those who had outgrown this influence.

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  • After Constantinople became the capital of the East a new road system grew up connecting the provinces with the capital.

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  • Hostility to the bills grew apace.

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  • In the middle ages Verona gradually grew in size and importance.

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  • But to understand these in their mutual and explanatory relations it will be necessary to exhibit the conditions under which his thought grew into consistency and system.

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  • But after 1872, when the census showed a total of 33,110,825, the population grew steadily, its increment between 1872 and 1898 inclusive, a period of 27 years, being 10,649,990.

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  • This expectation, however, was not realized, but in time the place grew popular as a health resort, the scenery in every direction being remarkably picturesque.

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  • It was made the county-seat in 1803, was incorporated as a town in 1805, grew rapidly after the opening of the canal in 1828, and in 1841 was chartered as a city.

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  • That he learnt anything, and that he grew up an amiable and magnanimous man, were solely due to his natural worth, for no one ever owed less to education or to family example.

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  • As Ferdinand grew up, and after his marriage with a Neapolitan princess, he became the centre of a court opposition to Godoy and to his policy of alliance with France.

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  • The Greek colonies were established first as trading stations, which grew into independent cities.

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  • Tarentum (whether or no founded by pre-Dorian Greeks - its founders bore the unexplained name of Partheniae) became a Laconian colony at some unknown date, whence a legend grew up connecting the Partheniae with Sparta, and 707 B.C. was assigned as its traditional date.

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  • The khanate of Khokand was a powerful state which grew up in the 18th century.

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  • He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

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  • After the hands of Elizabeth of England, Mary of Scotland and Renata of Lorraine had successively been sought for him, the council of state grew anxious about the succession, but he finally married his cousin, Sophia of Mecklenburg, on the 10th of July 1572.

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  • But once more Bolingbroke's "fortune turned rotten at the very moment it grew ripe," 4 and his projects and hopes were ruined by the king's death in June.

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  • There was a great development in the mining industry during 18 971898 and 1899, thei value of the gold extracted in 1898 exceeding £15,000,000, but the political situation grew worse, and in September 1899, owing to the imminence of war between the Transvaal and Great Britain, the majority of the Uitlanders fled from the city.

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  • In the train of the Magna Mater came the secret Oriental cult of Bacchus, which grew to such proportions in deities .

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  • In this way grew up the "religion of the poets," whose falseness and shallowness was patent even to contemporary thinkers.

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  • As time went on the practice of introducing additional matter of an edifying character grew in popular favour, and was gradually extended.

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  • When this began in 1267 to be the residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfenbuttel line of counts, a town gradually grew up around it.

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  • He refused, however, to support the Combes ministry, and formed a Radical dissident group, which grew in strength and eventually caused the fall of the ministry.

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  • In Levantine waters connexions grew up with the great marts of Chalcis and Miletus, with the rulers of Lydia, Phrygia, Cyprus and Egypt.

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  • In spite of these political disturbances Christian's popularity with his people grew steadily, and was enhanced by the patriarchal and unique position which in his later years he occupied in Europe.

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  • Even after the adoption in Europe of the Christian era, a great variety of methods of dating - national, provincial and ecclesiastical - grew up and prevailed for a long time in different countries, thus renewing in modern times the difficulties experienced in ancient times from diversities of reckoning.

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  • As he grew older his metaphysical optimism waned.

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  • After his retirement he gave to the administration of Sir John Macdonald a support which grew more and more fitful, and advocated independence as the final destiny of Canada.

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  • He grew up resolved to emulate the medieval knights who had reconquered Portugal from the Moors.

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  • Soderini's government grew weaker.

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  • Philip grew up grave, self-possessed and distrustful.

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  • The rough surroundings of the Frankish court were unfavourable to the acquisition of learning, and Charles grew up almost ignorant of letters, but hardy in body and skilled in the use of weapons.

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  • They would act equally well if the water grew continually warmer as the depth increases, but they cannot give an exact account of a temperature inversion such as is produced when layers of warmer and colder water alternate.

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  • The queen-mother, however, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition.

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  • His philosophical opinions grew out of a diligent study of Descartes and Malebranche.

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  • But Benjamin's management of the paper, and particularly his free-thinking, displeased the authorities; the relations of the two brothers gradually grew unfriendly, possibly, as Benjamin thought, because of his brother's jealousy of his superior ability; and Benjamin determined to quit his brother's employ and to leave New England.

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  • Speke in 1862, and in time came to include the large protectorate which grew out of the extension of British influence over Buganda.

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  • The imports included the transit trade (with the Belgian Congo and German East Africa), which grew from £8460 in1903-1904to £82,615 in 1908-1909.

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  • Fateh Sah, raja of Garhwal, endowed the temple which he built, round which grew up the town of Gurudwara or Dehra.

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  • A new edition of the German Bible was issued with the view of meeting the needs of Catholics, a new religious literature grew up designed to, substantiate the beliefs sanctioned by the Roman Church and to carry out the movement begun long before toward spiritualizing its institutions and rites.

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  • This grew a little later into the recommendation that the revenues and possessions of the French Church should be appropriated by the government, which, after properly subsidizing the clergy, might hope, it was estimated, that a surplus of twenty-two millions of livres would accrue to the State.

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  • Real toleration in public opinion grew slowly through the 18th century, removing the religious tests of voters; and a constitutional amendment in 1821 explicitly forbade such tests in the case of office-holders.

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  • The feelings which grew up, and the movements that were fostered till they rendered the Civil War inevitable, received something of the same impulse from Massachusetts which she had given a century before to the feelings and movements forerunning the War of American Independence.

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  • The lords of Zuilen grew very powerful and built a castle here at the end of the 13th century.

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  • He succeeded in driving the raiders away, rebuilt the walls, and during the fifty-eight years of his episcopate the town grew and prospered.

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  • The Altstadt of Konigsberg grew up around the castle built in 1255 by the Teutonic Order, on the advice of Ottaker II.

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  • The Persians took over the realm of their predecessors, and Gaza grew in importance as a seat of international commerce.

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  • They grew during the r9th century in population and wealth at a rate that placed them far ahead of the Spanish and Portuguese states, which in the year 1800 were the richer and the more populous.

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  • The first year the crop would be free from weeds, the second year only those grew whose seeds were wafted or carried by birds, the third year the crop required hoeing, which was done with sticks, and then the space was abandoned for new ground.

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  • Out of this practical knowledge, coupled with the belief in personeity, grew a folk-lore so vast that if it were written down the world would not contain the books.

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  • In 1609 he published Tortura Torti, a learned work which grew out of the Gunpowder Plot controversy and was written in answer to Bellarmine's Matthaeus Tortus, which attacked James I.'s book on the oath of allegiance.

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  • In 1892 he became definitely associated in the public mind with a movement for free church federation which grew out of a series of meetings held to discuss the question of home reunion.

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  • Out of this grew the Free Church Federation, which secures a measure of co-operation between the Protestant Evangelical churches throughout England.

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  • Ramiro soon rid himself of his rival, and welded Sobrarbe, Ribagorza and Aragon into a single kingdom, which thenceforward grew rapidly in size and power and shared with Castile the chief part in the struggle against the Moors.

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  • The year of her death is unknown; but she left her crown to her son Pisindelis (born about 498 B.C.), who was succeeded upon the throne by his son Lygdamis about the time that Herodotus grew to manhood.

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  • Tilsit, which received civic rights in 1552, grew up around a castle of the Teutonic order, known as the "Schalauner Haus," founded in 1288.

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  • With the increase of the city the operation grew in importance, and was followed by an official lustruni, or purificatory sacrifice, offered on behalf of the people by the censors or functionaries in charge of the classification.

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  • On each occasion new areas had to be brought within the sphere of enumeration, whilst the necessity for the use in the wilder tracts of a schedule simpler in its demands than the standard, grew less as the country got more accustomed to the inquiry, and the efficiency of the administrative agency increased.

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  • This was about the first indication of a tendency, which grew in strength for half a century, to load the Federal census with inquiries having no essential or necessary connexion with its main purpose, which was to secure an accurate enumeration of the population as a basis for a reapportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.

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  • During the events which led up to the Declaration of Independence this school, known as the "Liberal" school, was not prominent though the number of its adherents steadily grew.

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  • His policy of never interfering in strikes and leaving even violent demonstrations undisturbed at first proved successful, but indiscipline and disorder grew to such a pitch that Zanardelli, already in bad health, resigned, and Giolitti succeeded him as prime minister (November 1903).

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  • He sustained many single combats, one very famous struggle being the wrestling with the Libyan Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Ge (Earth), who had to be held in the air, as he grew stronger every time he touched his mother, Earth.

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  • The revised charter also provided that any one who brought over five colonists and established them in a new settlement should receive 200 acres, and if such a settlement grew to be a town or village it should receive a grant of municipal government.

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  • The Government temporized and took inadequate military measures; meanwhile a rebellion grew, and Turkish and Christian hatred became more and more inflamed.

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  • Trade with the United States grew from £877,000 in 1891 to £2,140,000 in 5907.

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  • The early exploration of the western coast of North America grew out of the search for a supposed passage, sometimes called the " Strait of Anian " between the Pacific and the Atlantic. In Purchas his Pilgrimmes (1625) was published the story of Juan de Fuca, a Greek mariner whose real name was Apostolos Valerianos, who claimed to have discovered the passage and to have sailed in it more than twenty days.

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  • He grew up in the country of his father's adoption,.

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  • This feeling grew stronger until the election.

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  • But as the army and the navy grew year by year, the tone of Japanese policy became firmer.

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  • But his health grew worse and worse, and he was tormented by stone and gravel.

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  • His various maladies grew worse; yet they were not the direct cause of his death.

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  • Growing interest in politics produced dissatisfaction with the compromise of 1831, and the Liberal opposition grew in numbers and influence.

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  • Treguier (Trecorum), which dates from the 6th century, grew up round a monastery founded by St Tugdual.

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  • But side by side with the Hermae there grew up a more anthropomorphic conception of the god.

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  • In course of time changes grew up. (I) From the 3rd century onwards, secret (auricular) confession before a bishop or priest was practised.

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  • All this excited public opinion against him, and gradually he grew unpopular in his own neighbourhood.

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  • Under his sister's care the young emperor was trained in divers accomplishments which won him the name of Calligraphes ("the Penman"), but grew up into a weak though amiable character.

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  • By that time his religious opinions had begun to change, he grew dissatisfied with the views of the High Church party, and came under the influence of Carlyle's teaching.

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  • Nehemiah Grew and his contemporary Marcello Malpighi were the earliest discoverers in the department of plant anatomy.

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  • Nehemiah Grew seems to have been the first to describe, in a paper on the Anatomy of Plants, read before the Royal Society in November 1676, the functions of the stamens and pistils.

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  • Grew says that "when the attire or apices break or open, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, and touches it with a prolific virtue."

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  • Ray adopted Grew's views, and states various arguments to prove their correctness in the preface to his work on European plants, published in 1694.

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  • Geoffroy, in a memoir presented to the Royal Academy at Paris, supported the views of Grew and others as to the sexes of plants.

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  • In the next two centuries Brussels grew in size and importance, and its trade gilds were formed on lines similar to those of Ghent.

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  • The situation went from bad to worse, and the dispute not only grew in intensity but reached the outer world.

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  • He published memoirs of the adventures of a brigand, Rodrigue de Villandrando (1844), which gradually grew into a volume (1877), full of fresh matter.

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  • His day was thus one of incessant mental activity; but hard work was so far from breeding a distaste for his occupation, that reading and writing grew ever more delightful to him (literarum assiduitas non modo mihi fastidium non pant, sed voluptatem; crescit scribendo scribendi studium).

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  • Particular Christians were designated to take charge of the services, and orders of worship were framed out of which grew ultimately elaborate liturgies.

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