Growths

Examples

• Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An increasing harvest of rich personalities is the social reward for a fine statesmanship, but such personalities are free growths in a cordial environment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were some cold intervals, it is true; but they did not last long enough to destroy the growths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a mixture of growths and accumulations entirely different from anything that has ever been called an empire before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Decidedly I am an old stalk, he thought, the young growths are pushing me aside. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Some people find it difficult to breathe through the nostrils on account of growths, called adenoids, in the nose. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Trick machines of unwieldy strength were built secretly, and reapers were driven into growths of young trees, and were fastened together and then pulled apart to prove which was the stronger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Intelligent expression is often lacking in children with adenoid growths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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