effloresce
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Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”:
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Metals crystallize; frosts effloresce, plants become living things, inanimate matter takes animate form, monads vibrate, the pantheism of nature makes itself manifest.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
But the broad principles will effloresce into all manner of perfectnesses and all fruits.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
This is called "water of crystallization"; if it passes into the air by evaporation, the crystal crumbles to a powder- and is then said to effloresce.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
The written-out trills of the 28th Variation effloresced with a mild gleam, and the fughetta of the 10th hit the ear with a tonal wall of sound.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Since his marriage, he has effloresced in Washington society.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for McGill, he expanded, he effloresced, if such a nature as his could be said to bloom.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Compelled communism is not the repetition of that oneness of sympathy which effloresced in the bright flower of this common possession of individual goods.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
Remember, but for these loppings of affliction you might have effloresced into the rank luxuriant growth of mere external profession.
From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
Cities, especially Cities in Revolution, are subject to these alternations; the secret courses of civic business and existence effervescing and efflorescing, in this manner, as a concrete Phenomenon to the eye.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
And the gladness which is wholesome and blessed, and is 'joy in the Lord,' will manifest itself by efflorescing into all holiness and all loftiness and largeness of obedience.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
There stood that unfinished world reeking with charcoal fumes, its soft, fungous, cryptogamic vegetation efflorescing with fierce luxuriance in that ghastly carbonic atmosphere.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
The efflorescing matter is composed of carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, and biborate of soda.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles
This had the double disadvantage of rendering the specimen cured by its aid almost dripping with humidity in damp weather, and efflorescing with the double salts around the eyes and mouth in dry weather.
