bourgeois
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"Thou seemest to fancy's eye An animated blossom born in air; Which breathes and bourgeons in the golden sky, And sheds its odors there."
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
Reality falls in passing into conceptual analysis; it mounts in living its own undivided life—it buds and bourgeons, changes and creates.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
A few steps below the cross of which, according to Torquato, the parish priest had dreamed, they met a bourgeons dressed in black, who was coming down, riding a mule.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
But those stone bourgeons stand for thoughts more rare, Whose patient crystals colored day by day.
From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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