growed

I ken har ther calls, 'nd ther replies,' nd ther beatin 'uv oars, tho' thar oars war broken, 'nd ther calls growed still two' nd three thousand year ago.

The Wedge of Gold

Margaret, who, like Topsy, merely 'growed' without pedigree as a pauper in

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Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts.

Without Prejudice

Them Better Things was not such as growed in Wyoming.

The Man Next Door

Lincoln "growed" whiskers after his first nomination for the Presidency.

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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

"growed," but strange because each builder copies the original.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888

Papa kept tellin' 'er that there was nothin' he could do 'bout me since I was full growed an' could make my own choices.

Down on the Pharm

The closest this country has come to starvation in a long time has been when repubs sowed their seeds 10 years ago and nothing has growed from it yet.

Obama jokes that pundits would make lousy farmers

I am actually more concerned for the welfare of you younguns than I am about my own future, heck I'm pretty much set up, kid is growed up and I ain't havin 'no more so I just anticipate a comfortable semi retirement but climate change is something you are going to be dealing with long after I'm underground.

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