Literary notes about grow (AI summary)
The word "grow" in literature is a versatile term that conveys both literal and metaphorical change. In some works, it signifies the natural process of development or maturation—as characters "grow up" or evolve through life’s stages [1, 2, 3] and as nature itself is depicted flourishing, with flowers daringly emerging from harsh surfaces [4, 5, 6]. In other texts, "grow" marks the worsening or escalation of a situation, such as increasing anger [7], the intensification of conflict [8, 9], or even the deepening of decay and despair [10, 11]. Additionally, the term is employed as a metaphor for progress in moral, emotional, or intellectual realms, depicting how virtues and vices alike can take root, develop, and bear lasting consequences [12]. In all these instances, "grow" effectively encapsulates the notion of gradual change, whether it is nurturing life or descending into decline.
- THE RETURN HOME Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP H2 anchor Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH All children, except one, grow up.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie - She was one of the kind that likes to grow up.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - “Our Dickon can make a flower grow out of a brick walk.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - They grow by ditches and water-sides, and in divers fields that are moist, for therein they chiefly delight to grow.
— from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper - If I have seeds and can make flowers grow the garden won’t be dead at all—it will come alive.”
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - When I hear, on the floor of my room, the tapping of my wooden legs and of my crutches, I grow angry enough to strangle my servant.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - Be gone, good ancient; this will grow to a brawl anon.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - In our school the boys' faces seemed in a special way to degenerate and grow stupider.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - One day passed, however, another and another; she did not come and I began to grow calmer.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Then she said, I will sow something in your conscience, in confidence that it will take root, grow, and bear fruit.
— from The Oera Linda Book, from a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century
