upgrowth

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Could Providence have selected a more fitting spot for the upgrowth of a romantic boy?

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank

The vigour of English life showed itself in the wide extension of commerce, in the progress of the towns, and the upgrowth of a free yeomanry.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard

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 Hungerford, Edward

A, First appearance of the eye as a ring-like upgrowth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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 Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate