swift-growing

They were rounding the curve, leaning toward the inside, gazing before them at the swift-growing picture.

Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3 2010

A jungle is a flurry of activity in every way, from the swift-growing greenery to the perpetual toil of insects to the movements of animals.

The Lotus, Part II: Quin 2005

A jungle is a flurry of activity in every way, from the swift-growing greenery to the perpetual toil of insects to the movements of animals.

Archive 2005-02-01 2005

How long before they moved in and began demolishing the wall with their swift-growing roots?

The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

For out of its lush red soil, teeming with iron, grew a multitude of trees: palms that clung to the shore; pandanus that twisted itself into dense jungle; banyans with their thousand aerial roots; hau and kou, the excellent trees of the islands; swift-growing wild plum that had been imported from Japan to provide burning fagots for the laborers; and here and there a royal palm, its moss-pocked trunk rising majestically toward the heavens.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

After using so much ingenuity in building up the achievements of that swift-growing country, the announcement of this plague of snakes might undo all that had been accomplished.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

They were rounding the curve, leaning toward the inside, gazing before them at the swift-growing picture.

Planchette 1906

Europe and America, the Europe and America of railroads, industries, monstrous swift-growing cities, might find present in ancient Rome a part of their own very souls, restless, turbulent, greedy.

Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

What could it mean except a swift-growing menace to the Crown -- to the little Prince.

Truxton King A Story of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

They are not particular as to the species, so that swift-growing kinds of trees such as the poplars may be made to serve their needs.

Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873