growth

The outlines were more rugged and varied than those of Samoa, and the growth of bush was certainly more luxuriant.

And not only has the unpaid service aided the growth of the movement, it has also added to its moral and religious power.

It is the season of verdure and growth, and frosts are both slight and infrequent in the latitude of San Francisco.

A maple within the enclosure exhibits 242 rings of annual growth.

If anyone should push through that protecting fringe of growth, he would be looking directly down on the two lads.

Back from the water-meadows was a region of low hills covered with a second growth of young birches and poplars.

Their growth has required ages, and during their development many a parent stalk has ceased to exist.

They may be shifted on as the growth of the several plants may require.

In England, as elsewhere, the growth of the towns was one of the most marked features of the twelfth century.

These last combine the erect bush-like habit of growth with the dwarfness of the Cupid.