upgrowth
Example Sentences
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In this way, growing at its edge, deepening, and contributing to an upgrowth from the bottom, a few centuries may serve entirely to fill a deep basin with peaty accumulation.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Reforesting by the upgrowth of young trees is still going on to a limited extent, but is in danger.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
But from the time of his visits to Milan and Genoa his sympathies drew him not to the dying verse of France but to the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
Bloomingdale's was at Third Avenue and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Streets, but it was a gradual upgrowth, from a modest beginning upon that original important corner.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
