#waxed

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#again #america #certain #circumstances #climates

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#eyebrows #first #had #i #pretty

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#flanders #holland #liberties #stronger #thus

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ↗