Grow Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Grow


Grow like a cow’s tail, downwards. —Anonymous	1
Grows like Jimson weed in a pile of compost. —Anonymous	2
We do not make our thoughts; they grow in us like grain in a wood. —Philip James Bailey	3
Growing like smoke. —Frances Hodgson Burnett	4
Grow like grass in May. —George Eliot	5
Like some fair plant beneath my careful hand He grew, he flourish’d and he grac’d the land. —Homer (Pope)	6
That grows with gazing on, like lover’s beauty. —Gerald Massey	7
Grew like the summer grass. —William Shakespeare	8
Grow like weeds on a neglected tomb. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	9
Grows great as the moon through the month. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	10