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It is all 'a-growing and a-blowing, as the peripatetic gardeners say of their plants; but, unlike their wares, it has its roots deep in the soil and is an evergreen. Its promise is golden, and its prospects are boundless for every class of writer.
Vanish, you ugly shapes, & with her presence Quitt your sharp stings! into what monstrous creature Feele I myself a-growing! yet I cannot Force backe the streame, it comes so fast upon me; I cannot. Enter Eleonora. Ele. Here, good Henrico, let me see your wound. Hen. No, I am well againe; thankes, my best love. Come, let us walke and talke; I had a fancy, But 'tis no matter: Buzzano!
But by and by I began to grow big, and then Daddy Captain said to himself, 'Here's a child, he says, 'and a child of gentlefolks, and she mustn't grow up in ignorance, and me doing my duty by her poor pa and ma, he says. And how is the child? And Daddy says, 'The child is a-growing with the flowers, he says; 'and she's a-growing like the flowers.
I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing, but I cross it like a cart-path in the woods. I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing.
caption: Dug-out, September 9, 1915. The fakir puts a pinch of dust from the ground in a little pile on a glass plate on a tripod. He covers it up with a handkerchief or a cloth. He plays the bagpipes, or a wooden flute, while you can see the heap of dust under the cloth a-growing and a-growing up and up, bigger and bigger.
He said at first he only meant to play a short lone hand for the fun of the thing; and it was the way the little man swallowed whatever was give him, he said, that made the game keep on a-growing till it ended up by roping in the whole town. So off he went, explaining fatherly how it come that preachers and brandys-and-sodas in Palomitas got along together first class.
S'pose you could cultivate a flea up to the size of a man, and keep his natural smartness a-growing and a-growing right along up, bigger and bigger, and keener and keener, in the same proportion where'd the human race be, do you reckon? That flea would be President of the United States, and you couldn't any more prevent it than you can prevent lightning."
'My censors say, 'What means this pine for him? * Seest not the flowing hair on cheeks a flowing? I say, 'By Allah, an ye deem I dote, * Look at the truth in those fine eyes a-showing! But for the down that veils his cheek and chin, * His brow had dazed all eyes no sight allowing: And whoso sojourns in a growthless land, * How shall he move from land fair growths a-growing? And quoth another,
But no, you threw down the square blocks that Amy had laid with so much care; you spread the dung of deception over the dying seeds, and by the help of the unnatural heat which this foulness generated, brooding down from above, you sprouted the germs of untruth in the boy's soul, and set a-growing plants whose roots run down into hell!
Anne: I'm fly, don't you make no mistake about it. I'm all a-growing and a-blowing, I am." "Not one foot of you," said I. "You are a prisoner, Rowley, and make up your mind to that. So am I, or next door to it. I showed it you for a caution; if you go on the streets, it spells death to me, Rowley." "If you please, sir," says Rowley.
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