Word: grewing
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...trust that I made myself intelligible and agreeable, although it seemed as if my brain were on fire. Possibly I grew excited and nervous; I saw Edith looking strangely at me once or twice, almost with a certain semblance of fear, as I thought. Poor girl, she was not wholly wrong in this...
...line of iron posts? Well, there's where I learned to ride. As I had never been on a bicycle before, my instructor mounted me very carefully on a machine, and steadying with his hand my wavering movements, we began laboriously to move about the hall. My confidence grew rather faster than my skill, I fear. It seemed so easy. I was sure I needed no assistance. I dismissed my attendant. Proud, happy moment! I rode all alone. But a sense of the awful responsibility of the situation began to creep over me. A queer, unnerving sensation of uncertainty...
What she said I do not remember. Perhaps this whole dialogue does not seem worth remembering. I only know that when I came to talk of the separation about to come, I thought that she grew very sober; I thought I almost saw tears in her eyes. Never mind what I saw. I drew her trembling form closer to mine; and then I knew that we two must not part for ever...
...spent its force, and began to hope that before long he would be his old self again. Therefore I, sitting before the fire, smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual for fellows to worry much over one another's goings-out and comings-in - but yet - there was something, a premonition...
...body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept up a tattoo on the bottom of the boat; the eyes became mere circles; the spots around the nose grew larger and more distinct, until they assumed definite figures, that seemed like the Roman numerals. The body was fading away. The flapping of the tail became louder and had a metallic ring. The goggling eyes lost all expression. But the beating of the tail becomes terrific; it rings...