effloresce
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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
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
Metals crystallize; frosts effloresce, plants become living things, inanimate matter takes animate form, monads vibrate, the pantheism of nature makes itself manifest.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
This wide, general commandment of our text is sufficiently definite, thinks Paul; for if the light be in you it will naturally effloresce into all forms of beauty.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John 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
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
The arsenic and corrosive sublimate effloresced from the ties along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
Compelled communism is not the repetition of that oneness of sympathy which effloresced in the bright flower of this common possession of individual goods.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
Carbonate of soda should be avoided in connection with sodium silicate as the property of efflorescing on the surface of the finished cake after a short time will prove detrimental.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen
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
This had the double disadvantage of rendering the specimen cured by its aid almost dripping with humidity in damp weather, and efflorescing with the double salts around the eyes and mouth in dry weather.
Cities, especially Cities in Revolution, are subject to these alternations; the secret courses of civic business and existence effervescing and efflorescing, in this manner, as a concrete Phenomenon to the eye.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
