effloresce

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

In some places, particularly on the coast of Coromandel, the dried indigo lumps are allowed to effloresce in a cask for some time, and when they become hard they are wiped and packed for exportation.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

It is thought to derive its character of luxuriant productiveness from a portion of salt intimately blended with its constituents, which, from its tendency to effloresce in a warm sun, renders the compound peculiarly friable.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman

The longest way round is the shortest way home; trust Him with all your hearts first, and that will effloresce into "whatsoever things are lovely and whatever things are of good report."

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

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

Sometimes the manners of the British have effloresced in scolding at the word as ill-chosen—ill-chosen, that is, to express some meaning that it was rather designed to exclude.

From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Delton Loring Geyer

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 Rex Ellingwood Beach

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 John R. (John Ross) Macduff

And although the waters are healed, there still remain the obstinate marshes with the white crystals efflorescing on their surface, and bringing salt and barrenness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

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

These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Before leaving the valley, he observed a hillock glistening white: it appears from its salt, bitter taste, to have been some kind of nitrate efflorescing from the ground.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 Charles Nordhoff