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They all grew silent.
They grew up healthy and strong.
Her face grew warmer.
Lisa's face grew hot.
Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.
He grew serious when she didn't respond.
As her intellect grew she became less dependent on this sense.
By and by, the eggs hatched, and a nestful of young doves grew up.
Destiny grew tired of trying to get her attention and finally went to her room to play.
It started with Crocus and Jonquils and then the fruit trees as the weather grew warmer.
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It grew so dark that the people could not see their way along the streets.
Everything grew bright and glittered.
To the house where I grew up, at the time of Annie's death.
Her irises swirled again and her frown grew.
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And in it were some odd little pictures, which he never grew tired of looking at.
Her face grew hotter.
Pelageya suddenly grew quite pale and clasped her hands.
The devil's smile grew as his cold eyes took all of them and settled on Bianca's necklace.
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Her eyes grew misty, and she rubbed them to keep tears from coming.
It grew even more overwhelming after the broadcast of the eleven o'clock news.
Her sense of dread grew as she approached and followed Jonny into his apartment.
The harder she concentrated, the louder Jule's heartbeat grew, as if their bodies were pressed together again.
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Deidre drank until she grew sleepy.
Darkyn stepped out of the corner where he stood and Deidre grew edgy, fear fluttering through her.
She added, "And you grew up to be nice."
A demon's canines grew when he fed.
Her hand went to her neck, and her thoughts grew disturbed.
She leaned into him, yielding as the intensity of the bond between them grew hot and demanding.
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.
Above them, the headlights of the two vehicles grew more distant, finally hidden from view by their angle of descent.
Her eyes grew blurry, and hot wetness slid down her cheeks.
The air grew heavier.
After half an hour, she grew tired of the internal argument.
As her excitement grew, she spoke faster.
Every time he didn't find it where it should be, he grew more homesick.
Uneasiness grew within Gabriel.
Standing before the Dark One, he grew more unsettled.
He prayed to all the deities he never, ever grew aloof and callous towards the humans.
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.
During daylight, when he wasn't fighting the desire to make love to her that grew with the disappearance of the sun.
Feeling trapped before hearing his terms, her eyes grew misty.
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.
A touch of coolness grazed his heated frame, which always grew hotter than Hell when he changed forms.
Her unease grew as she went.
Katie's vision blurred and grew dark.
Jade's jaw grew lax before he managed to speak.
A woman gave a cry, and the sound of jostling grew closer.
I started but grew tired.
Her luck grew worse.
She joined the Germans and other backpackers in an Irish dance as the cigarette smoke thickened and the rock band grew louder.
They grew silent as Rhyn entered and stared her down as well.
The shadow world…she staggered and floated through it, hauling him with her toward a pulsing portal that grew blurry fast.
His step grew quicker, and his face brightened as they wound their way through the compound.
His voice grew hushed, as if the all-important guests behind each door might hear him.
One of the portals grew brighter.
Hannah was beautiful in the model sense, with a slender form and large eyes that grew wider when they swept over him.
The coldness of fear within her grew stronger.
Jared.s form contorted then grew twice his size as he shifted into a creature unlike any she.d ever seen.
They grew silent when he appeared, and those nearest him scattered.
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.
His chest grew tight at the thought of Katie.s fate if she stayed with him.
Her face grew red at his easy dismissal of his youngest brother.
His battered body felt heavy, and his emotions grew chaotic.
The scary, confusing world she.d entered weeks before crystallized and grew clear as she watched the lethal battle.
Kiera's tone grew more hurt.
Jetr's voice grew quieter, and he drew near.
She stilled and grew silent, then pushed away from him.
The planet's energy warmed her, ran through her and into him, and grass grew beneath her feet.
Another memory crossed her mind, and her face grew warm for a different reason.
Still he stared until her face grew warm again.
Something his woman said took her interest; her gaze grew sharper, and she moved closer to nishani.
When the midmorning sun grew too hot, she lowered her weapon and handed it to the boy beside her.
They sparred until she grew tired and lowered her weapon.
The battle continued, and the men around her grew tenser when the first fleck of blood appeared on A'Ran's opponent.
They sparred lightly until her body grew warm and her mind engaged.
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.
Her small, shapely form grew tenser and closer to the computer as the levels increased.
Mansr grew grave and leaned forward.
Stone-faced, he stared at it, and her face grew warm at his lack of response.
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.
Her frown deepened when she looked at Ne'Rin, and her gaze grew intense and considering when she regarded him.
Their kiss grew more passionate, the feel of her body against him not enough to sate his growing need.
The pod rotated slowly, revealing the shape of the hulking grey ship as it grew farther away.
The ship grew distant.
The day grew hot fast, though the surrounding peaks shaded her from the sun itself.
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.
They raced through the quaking halls toward the entrance, all while the strange roar of an ocean grew louder.
They were forced to slow their pace when the trail became covered with slippery shale and the path grew steeper.
It grew straight from the stone; there was no dirt or planter.
Mansr still scanned for signs of life, and A'Ran watched as they grew farther from the temple.
The spacecraft's door opened, and her excitement grew.
Her stomach churned as the day grew on.
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.
Often we're in wacky places, places like the house where I grew up or schools I attended when I was a kid.
Each time she exhaled the scent grew stronger, urging him closer.
Nearing Elisabeth's house, his anticipation grew.
His confidence in finding a way to make the relationship work grew with each passing moment.
No, my strength grew as I aged.
When Carmen asked if she had more current pictures of her family, Katie grew sullen.
Katie's hand flew to her mouth and her eyes grew large.
I mean, we grew up together, so we have a lot in common, but...
We grew up together.
The days grew warmer, and work on the house on the hill drew to a standstill.
No brush grew within three feet of the fence.
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.
She sank down against it when her vision grew narrow.
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.
The silence grew awkward, and she found herself thinking of the last time they were together.
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.
Malpighi's complete work, Anatome Plantarum, appeared in 1675 and Grew's Anatomy of Plants in 1682.
His tone grew yielding.
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.
She grew edgy as they passed the town near the bungalow before pulling up the long driveway to the beach house.
Her step grew less brisk.
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.
The air around her grew heavy again.
Lana grew uneasy and watched the sky flare with rocket and laser fire from the battle at the Peak.
She grew cold and her injured arm hurt more and more.
His mood grew worse.
Lana's face grew warmer.
Lana's face grew warm again, and she silently thanked the retired fed for brushing off her grays so diplomatically.
The world grew loud, with voices jumbling with the sound of equipment and possibly the thump of a helicopter.
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.
The tunnel grew narrower as they moved away from the chambers.
Mike took them right, and the air grew even cooler.
The smooth ride grew bumpy suddenly, and Brady braced himself against his seat.
His breathing grew shallower.
She soon grew too restless to sit still and paced.
I think I might've entertained her until she grew tired of me.
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.
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.
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.
His thoughts grew dark as he thought about what it would take to save her.
There's more to everyone than where they grew up, Katie urged.
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.
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.
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.
Dean often wondered to himself why their romantic attraction to one another never grew to something permanent.
Checking the record, her face grew warm on discovery that Alex had once again tried in vain to reach her.
The flush grew warmer.
As the days passed, the little filly grew stronger and they finally released her in the pasture with her mother and sisters.
With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.
He excused her behavior, knowing she grew up in a different environment.
The man didn't let her go until her world grew dark.
The roar of the earth grew louder.
I wanted to give it to you, in case I … Jenn's throat grew tight as she looked at her little girl.
The earthquake grew more intense.
The shaking of the earth grew worse, until the walls began to tremble.
Jule and Dusty grew serious while Damian sat beside her.
His hand went to her belly, where their son grew.
He knew that orchard, and an ache grew at his core.
She saw his upper lip swell as his teeth grew, stimulated by lust.
It's where my family was and where I grew up.
He approached her again, stopping only when she grew tenser.
Anger and other emotions grew within her.
Her world grew red then black while he smashed through her memories.
The storm grew too heavy and she stopped finally, looking around her.
She rested her chin on her knee until her nose grew too cold then ducked her head down again.
Her heart quickened again, and her palms grew sweaty from what she knew was fear.
Jenn's gaze grew distant.
When her breathing grew steady, she shifted.
Her features grew more worried at the mention of her mate.
She grew impatient waiting for the guardsmen to return.
His fangs grew before her eyes, nearly the size of her pinky.
We both learned and grew, she said.
While the hole inside her grew, Jenn's sense of duty returned.
Her hands grew clammy as she circled the wide base of the obelisk to see the names on the other side.
Jenn's throat grew tight at the words, and she thought of the family she'd lost.
The air grew more charged, humming with magic from god and obelisk.
Her chest grew almost too tight to breathe at the thought of losing him so soon.
The Watcher's words grew quieter.
Darian watched them hug, until the ache at his core grew too strong.
Darian's thoughts grew darker as he thought again of Jenn.
The sound of men crashing through the forest grew near fast.
The air of the chamber stilled and grew heavy, as if it meant to suffocate him.
Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.
He rode hard until the horse's breathing grew labored and then he slowed, senses alert.
He heard nothing to indicate danger, but the heat grew steadily with their bodies pressed together.
He grew more controlling as the days progressed, more possessive and erratic.
She recalled the strong, thick man who watched over her as she grew.
Their petting grew more frenzied, more instinctive, and far from the languid, sensuous control he had intended to use with her.
Vara's voice grew pleading.
Within moments after finishing the drink, he grew too drowsy to stay awake and retreated to the bed.
The gleam in his gaze grew brighter.
They traveled until the wagon grew hot.
He grew more uneasy as the afternoon progressed.
Seeing the look on his face, the grizzled warrior's voice grew fatherly.
I guess we just grew away from each other.
It took a moment to sink in and then her face grew warm.
People changed and grew, but she hadn't been growing.
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.
As the light faded from the treetops, the birds grew silent and insects began their orchestra of night sounds.
She studied the berry-like seeds that grew in a cluster at the top of the bush.
Even the lawn contained a surprising amount of herbs, and edible plantains grew everywhere.
The sound began as light pecks on the window, and quickly grew to a crescendo of crashing rocks.
She observed Xander's fangs as they grew.
The fury within him grew.
Eden's thoughts grew darker.
His teeth grew in response.
As he spoke, his incisors grew.
Ashley's face grew troubled.
The instinct that warned her of there being something off about the kid grew when he met her gaze.
Her skin grew so sensitive, the scrape of sand and heat of his hands were almost orgasmic.
Her shaky insides grew warm, her heart racing from fear and his nearness.
Her expression grew interested.
His pinkie nail grew to a sharp point, and he sliced his inner arm near the wrist.
The gaggle of women grew, and she glanced at her phone, surprised at the stamina the three had to keep going for hours.
Sofi's gaze grew cold.
She had no sense of moving, but the air around her grew heavier, cooler.
Her smile faded and her features grew pensive.
The lights grew no closer, even when she quickened her pace.
His incisors grew unbidden; he didn't stop them this time.
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.
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.
Among the blockhouses was one which by various enlargements and refoundations grew into the well-known Saalburg fort on the Taunus near Homburg.
His wisdom grew mainly out of his own reflections and experiments.
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.
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.
The court at which he grew up was the focus of great activities, for Philip, by war and diplomacy, was raising Youth.
The reputation of the oracle, which was in origin medical, spread, and with it grew Alexander's skilled plans of organized deception.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus grew up a number of municipalities - practically self-governing republics - semiindependent feudatories in the feudal state.
Thereafter a considerable trade grew up between Algiers and Spain.
During the next few days he grew weaker and resigned himself to death.
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.
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.
Between 1875, when the first lila was opened, and 1901, the length of the lines grew to 1890 m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As their tenure of power grew firmer, they advanced dynastic claims, assumed titles, and took the style of petty sovereigns.
Contemporaneously with the vicissitudes of home and foreign policy under the Left there grew up in Italy a marked tendency towards colonial enterprise.
The Turks then again grew suspicious of him and imprisoned him a second time.
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.
Another who " got the seed " and " grew the flower " was Herbert Spencer.
Argenteuil grew up round a monastery, which, dating from A.D.
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."
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.
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.
The boy, according to the legends which soon grew round his life, was a " wonder-child," and early displayed marvellous capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From the latter there grew a gigantic gourd.
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.
Town life, however, grew.
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.
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.
They were the true populus Romanus, alongside of whom grew up a secondary Roman people, the plebs or commons.
But their position as a nobility or privileged class arose solely because a class with inferior rights to their own grew up around them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As certain sanctuaries, Shiloh, Shechem, Bethel, &c., grew in importance, the priesthoods that officiated at them would acquire special prestige.
The talismanic name Immanuel became the nucleus out of which the later Messianic prophecies of Isaiah grew.
Bamberg, first mentioned in 902, grew up by the castle (Babenberch) which gave its name to the Babenberg family.
Out of this abbey a diocese grew, to be united with that of Killaloe in the 12th century.
The golden apples grew on a tree guarded by Ladon, the everwatchful dragon.
In 1857 he became tutor and his fame as a scholar grew rapidly.
It may be conjectured that the Pineta grew on a large peninsula somewhat resembling the Lida of Venice.
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.
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.
It was about this time that the town of Tuchkov, with which it was later (1830) incorporated, grew up outside of the fortifications.
The Order of Dominicans grew out of the little band of volunteers that had joined Dominic in his mission among the Albigenses.
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.
Under Antonius Felix (52-60) the revolutionary movement grew and spread.
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.
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.
The shrimp fishery, too, grew during the same period.
It grew very slowly, partly because of the hostility of the Indians and partly because of the incapacity of the French as colonizers.
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.
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.
Thus Oedipus grew up ignorant of his parentage, and, meeting Laius in a narrow way, quarrelled with him and slew him.
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.
Saalfeld grew up around the abbey founded in 1075 by Anno, archbishop of Cologne, and the palace built by the emperor Frederick I.
Then the empress grew impatient and compelled him (1791) to return to Jassy to conduct the peace negotiations as chief Russian plenipotentiary.
The Mahratta power grew and prospered till it embraced all western and most of central India.
As their ambition grew the chiefs began to organize their troops after the system learnt from the English and French.
His adopted son grew up to be the Nana Sahib, of infamous memory, who took a leading part in the Mutiny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dawson of Frogden in Roxburghshire is believed to have been the first who grew turnips as a field crop to any extent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As he grew older his father took him on all his rounds, reviewing troops, inspecting studs, foundries, dockyards and granaries.
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.
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.
As the state grew in wealth and importance the church grew with it.
The present magnificent building was a slow growth extending over three centuries and expanding gradually as the republic grew in riches.
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.
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.
Its characteristic civilization grew out of a mixture of various elements, Arabic, Aramaic, Greek and Roman.
No large cities grew up within its territory, and its chief places were mainly of strategic importance.
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.
Whatever grew on that tree was thought to be a gift from heaven, more especially the mistletoe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus there gradually grew up a tendency to avoid the term, and in accordance with the idea of Ex.
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.
In the beginning of i 556 Ignatius grew very weak and resigned the active government to three fathers, Polanco, Madrid and Natal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth's position in Holland grew more and more unsatisfactory.
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.
Three of these questions grew out of the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of western territory as a result of the Mexican War.
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.
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.
Here young Jalal-uddin grew up, and in 1226 married Jauhar Khatun, the daughter of Laid Sharaf-uddin of Samarkand.
From a mining settlement the city grew as the inequalities of the site permitted.
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.
But in spite of every such effort opinion steadily grew.
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.
This necessity grew more urgent every year as Methodism extended.
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.
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.
It grew in the east and south of the island, where it was introduced during the Arab occupation.
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.
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.
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.