bring to maturity

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But in their subsequent treatment of that sacred instrument, which each had done so much to bring to maturity, they, unfortunately for the country, differed very widely.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin

How glorious must have been the soil which could bring to maturity a harvest of such teeming abundance!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Oh, woe to that belated winter-overtaken plant, which the summer could not bring to maturity!

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Intelligent, active, cool, daring, and insinuating, colonel Phelipeaux immediately applied himself to bring to maturity, a plan at once suitable to his genius, and interesting to his wishes.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

He had been long endeavouring to bring to maturity, a plan for facilitating their restoration, but which the loyal adherent, from a series of untoward and uncontrollable circumstances, began to despair of accomplishing.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir