budding

Example Sentences

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It was only a short block of brick buddings: the bank, the insurance agency, Moore’s Store, and The Coffee Pot Cafe, where the old saloon had stood.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Once Bran had known every stone of those buddings, inside and out; he had climbed them all, scampering up walls as easily as other boys ran down stairs.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

This infant colony, for many centuries after the first buddings of existence, perhaps, had no other appellation than that of Bromwych.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William

Seeds, blades, buddings, and new beginnings of the very life of God the Son, in their deepest souls. 

From Jacob Behmen an appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

They were the cause of all natural events,—of winds, rains, and tides, of buddings and ripenings, of growth and decay, of everything desirable or dreadful.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio