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Usage examples of grew.

The wine made the handkerchief pink as a rose, and her head, where I chafed it, grew crimson.

My hair, as I have said, was very fair then—though it grew plain brown, as I got older—and Mrs Sucksby used to wash it with vinegar and comb it till it sparked.

Mr Ibbs watched him hardest of all: his eye grew narrow, and he tilted his head—he might have been lining him up along the barrel of a gun.

Mrs Sucksby hummed along until her eyes grew damp, and then the hum got broken.

The stations grew smaller and darker, until finally there was nothing at them but a tree—there was nothing to see anywhere, but trees, and beyond them bushes, and beyond them fog— grey fog, not brown—with the black night sky above it.

So thick it grew, I felt it, damp, upon my face, upon my lashes and lips.

I saw her do it, and grew quite cold: for she looked all at once like nothing so much as the matron of a gaol.

There was a place they called a herb-garden, that grew mostly nettles.

Her scissors she used, not for gathering flowers, but only for keeping down the grass that grew about it.

We sat together before the spluttering fire, and talked in a weak kind of way—I forget what of—and then it grew dark, and a maid brought lights.

I smoothed her hair back from her cheek, and held her until she grew calm.

When her fingernails grew long I cut them, with a pair of silver scissors she had, that were shaped like a flying bird.

Her nails were soft and perfectly clean, and grew quickly, like a child's nails.

We all grew nervy as narks—Maud would sit fidgeting for hours at a trot, and when the house clock sounded she would give a little start, that would make me start.

She gave a high, nervous laugh and then, from having wept and been so low, she grew almost giddy.