In the 1960s and the 1970s, his prestige quietly grew.

"Or you can grow quietly, one customer and one store at a time."

It follows a period of two decades during which state government quietly grew stronger.

What she wanted was a place where she could put down roots and grow old quietly.

Her father, beginning the long, slow decline into elven old age, had been growing quietly, but increasingly, desperate.

We have some new additions to our grass family quietly growing.

Women of my mother's generation grew old quietly and uncomplainingly.

It grew quietly in the dark, nourished by his experiences and his love.

But there it was, quietly growing 130 feet tall, in a cool rain forest right beneath civilization's nose.

But some members of the financial community here are growing quietly worried about the recent scandals.