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