grow out of

• “But all eyes are drawn to the quaint folly-like building that seems to grow out of the very cliff-edge of the village, hanging over the sheer drop.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

• “Young Cliff, who, of the entire set-up, would most interest you, will, I hope, grow out of his megrim and return to his music.”

  Died in the Wool

• “Special difficulty seems to grow out of the fact that the "Philistines" are now said to have gone out from the Casluchim.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “They seem to grow out of the stone, and are encrusted with some of the richest lichen communities in England besides those in Cornwall and the New Forest.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “The added explanation as to what further thoughts Leah associated with this name "Reuben" do, indeed, not grow out of the words, "look, a son," but they lay bare the inmost thoughts of her heart.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “And this consideration well imprinted upon our minds would make us very careful, to treasure up other kind of comforts to ourselves against such a time, and to labour after those things which we shall never grow out of conceit withal, but shall value them to the last, and then most of all when we come to die, and leave this world.”

  The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05.

• “Sarai's acquiescence, however, seems to grow out of the idea that there actually is no other safe course to follow.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “The Purple Mountains loomed, seeming to grow out of the ground as the unicorn and centaur approached.”

  Cube Route

• “His theory, which consisted of four major stages and multiple substages, also set the ground rules for future stage theories: they are hierarchical, in that later stages grow out of earlier ones, and they are intransitive, that is, unable to be reordered.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

• “He notes that some of these double-word modifiers grow out of adverbial phrases: in “technology at the cutting edge,” the adverbial phrase is swung around in front of the noun to become cutting-edge technology; in the same way, “you can track changes in real time” becomes real-time data.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

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