Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Grow
Grow like a cow’s tail, downwards.
—Anonymous
Grows like Jimson weed in a pile of compost.
—Anonymous
We do not make our thoughts; they grow in us like grain in a wood.
—Philip James Bailey
Growing like smoke.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
Grow like grass in May.
—George Eliot
Like some fair plant beneath my careful hand
He grew, he flourish’d and he grac’d the land.
—Homer (Pope)
That grows with gazing on, like lover’s beauty.
—Gerald Massey
Grew like the summer grass.
—William Shakespeare
Grow like weeds on a neglected tomb.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Grows great as the moon through the month.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne