Grown

Examples

• I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It has grown discouraged, and stopped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face that had grown all of a sudden so rosy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If she had had a daughter now, a grown young lady, to interest her, I think she would have had the only kind of excellence she wants. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Although the woman in white was still in my mind, the image of her seemed to have grown dull and faint already. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Story in a Box of California Oranges For several hundred years oranges have grown in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mrs. Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer-waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They say of her that she has lately grown more handsome and more haughty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her usually quiet breathing had grown quicker with his words. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe--turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• How strange it seemed that to a full-grown white man an envelope was a mystery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He had grown thin and careworn, and had lost the loud, cheery manner for which he had been remarkable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The full-grown tree is quite large, ranging sixty feet and over in height and about eight feet around the trunk. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But as one invention has succeeded another people have grown wiser, and realized that each has conferred a benefit rather than taken away a right. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Their success was immediate, and from these displays has grown the successes of today in pyrotechnics. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He has grown up here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The world has grown older, and is therefore more conservative. Plato. The Republic.
• She is grown so brown and coarse! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Her face had grown as sombre as a tragic mask. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Vell,' said Mr. Weller, who had grown rather restless during this discussion, 'vith regard to bis'ness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They were much better than those grown locally, and sold readily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The timber that had formerly grown upon both banks, and for a considerable distance out, was still standing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It may have grown up out of almost nothing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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