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Meanings of grew savage in English

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Usage of grew savage in English
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She made a gesture of horror, and his voice grew savage and threatening.
Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories / 1898
2
The inhabitants grew savage in their craving for bread.
Tales of the Wilderness
3
But then, if people grew savage, they might pull my beard out by the roots.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
4
Burke's voice grew savage as he snapped a reply.
Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
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Waxing bold, the penny-a-liners grew savage, until the very skies rained lies and bitter slanders upon poor Keats.
The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
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He grew savage and restless, and fretted over the subtle changes that he counted in Dorothy as the summer waned.
In Exile, and Other Stories
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He grew savage and restless, and fretted over the subtle changes which he counted in Dorothy, as the summer waned.
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
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They grew savage, somehow, watching the mothers and sisters and cousins and sweethearts go streaming by to the various barracks.
Cheerful—By Request
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The heat grew savage.
Operation Terror
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Warham's Roman face grew savage, revealed in startling apparition a stubborn cruelty of which there was not a trace upon the surface.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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His hearer made no comment, but, when alone, rose and paced the floor with heavy tread while his face grew savage and brutal.
The Spoilers
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