growing-ness

Updated: June 6, 2025

It was a dull, cold day, what is called "a black frost;" not a bright, clear, pretty, cold day, but the sort of frost that really makes the world seem dead makes it almost impossible to believe that there will ever be warmth and sound and "growing-ness" again. Late in the afternoon Griselda crept up to the ante-room, and sat down by the window.

Mrs. Molesworth - The Cuckoo Clock

It was a dull, cold day, what is called "a black frost"; not a bright, clear, pretty, cold day, but the sort of frost that really makes the world seem dead makes it almost impossible to believe that there will ever be warmth and sound and "growing-ness" again. Late in the afternoon Griselda crept up to the ante-room, and sat down by the window.

Mrs. Molesworth - The Cuckoo Clock