bring to maturity
Example Sentences
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Wealth, science, education are good, we know: but we must also work and study to bring to maturity the fruit of knowledge.
From ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
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
Oh, woe to that belated winter-overtaken plant, which the summer could not bring to maturity!
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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
