She thought herself so hard, so sophisticated, but she was just a spoiled little girl grown old.

Some recall Muriel Spark's girls of slender means, now grown into perfumed womanhood.

She was only a gawky, homely girl grown into a woman with no talent or skill, a peasant from an insignificant town in the outlands of a planet no one could find on a star map.

Those girls, now grown, recall their parents' disintegrating marriage and explain how Sam wound up in California, with Gerri and the girls back in Connecticut trying to start a new life.

"The beautiful little girl grown into the marvelous woman."

Also, there was a girl, partly grown, who cautiously regarded us from one of the lower branches.

Ms. Kilgore is that girl, grown into a diligent and shrewd businesswoman.

Even with her head covered, Egwene was not hard to pick out unless surrounded by girls not yet full grown.

I suspected that same girl, now grown, stood outside in the sunlight.

Lucy Reubans Lucy is a local girl, having grown up in Saxton.