“Well, act like a fool! thou growest more stupid every day!” said the father again. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Monsters, terrifying phantoms, and lying dreams come from thee; thine eyes devour the stones of buildings, and the apes are ever ill each time thou growest young again. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In brief, let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge; for from henceforward, as thou growest great and becomest a man, thou must part from this tranquillity and rest of study, thou must learn chivalry, warfare, and the exercises of the field, the better thereby to defend my house and our friends, and to succour and protect them at all their needs against the invasion and assaults of evildoers. ❋ Unknown (2002)
BELVOIR: Why, Jack, the town improves thee beyond the university; thou growest witty. ❋ Unknown (1999)
And after the king had taken his seat surrounded by his brothers, the illustrious Vyasa, truthful in speech said, -- 'O son of Kunti, thou growest from good fortune. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
"I should go to my grave quite content if I thought, Nello, that when thou growest a man thou couldst own this hut and the little plat of ground and labor for thyself and be called Baas by thy neighbors," said the old man Jehan many an hour from his bed. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Meanwhile thou growest apace, becoming ever more and more beautiful, not in the childish beauty of rose bloom and snow, but in the loveliness of wondrous and mysterious thoughts, which flow to thee from other worlds; and though thy languid eyes droop wearily their fringes, though thy cheek is pale, and thy breast bent and contracted, yet all who meet thee stop to gaze, exclaiming: '_What a little angel! _' ❋ Various (N/A)
Then thou growest angry, and stampest with thy tiny feet; and when thy father comes, thou seemest to him a little Lucifer; and in his picture of the Day of Judgment, he paints thee thus among the infant demons, the young spirits of evil. ❋ Various (N/A)
But when thou growest old, or ere thou diest, pray not of Limpang-Tung, for thou becomest part of a scheme that he doth not understand. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
Thou growest old, Tithonus; else why dost thou chase Dawn thy bedfellow out of her couch while yet morning is so young? ❋ Anonymous (1902)
And day by day behold thou growest old; thy vigour is lost, and thou thinkest on the day of burial. ❋ Unknown (1897)
Thou child who growest rapidly, with gracious form, who restest in thine eye. ❋ Unknown (1895)
As thou risest thou growest greater: thy rays are upon all faces. ❋ Unknown (1895)
"I should go to my grave quite content if I thought, Nello, that when thou growest a man thou couldst own this hut and the little plot of ground, and labor for thyself, and be called Baas by thy neighbors," said the old man Jehan many an hour from his bed. ❋ Unknown (1891)
"Of a truth, ugly tree that thou art, thou growest the fruits of wisdom, oh Holly," she said; "but of those Jews whom I hated, for they called me 'heathen' when I would have taught them my philosophy -- did their Messiah come, and doth He rule the world?" ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
"How now," said the King hastily, "art thou ill, Sheriff, that thou growest so white?" ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)
And day by day behold thou growest old; thy vigor is lost, and thou thinkest on the day of burial. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)
