Word: growing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when grow dark the moon...
Never does love, like the world, grow...
...been in Cambridge for some time, and had been present at several tea-drinkings and other wild gayeties of this dissipated town. To be sure, she had caused her Aunt Prudence no little uneasiness on several occasions, and, as Miss Meeker herself expressed it, had actually made her grow thin (an operation which would seem to a casual observer very difficult of accomplishment...
...mean git hitched," she answered, laughing in her delicately coquettish way. "I'm sorry to have to crawl, but - it can't be helped. I'm looking out for further opportoonities. I want to grow - morally and intellectooally. No, siree...
...increase as much as may be possible the present efficiency of the college press." Whether such an association will prove a success, seems very doubtful; we should hardly expect the Harvard papers to see their way clear to any participation in the enterprise. The illustrations in the Spectator grow better and better, if such a thing be possible. Doubtless the paper will in time make good the loss of Lampy, if it can be made good...