effloresce

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

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

This is called "water of crystallization"; if it passes into the air by evaporation, the crystal crumbles to a powder- and is then said to effloresce.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

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

What the Ingredients Are of Soapine and Pearline.—They consist of partly effloresced sal soda mixed with half its weight of soda ash.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

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

Some buds are expanding; others, which had effloresced more rapidly, have already disappeared.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 by Various

And although the waters are healed, there still remain the obstinate marshes with the white crystals efflorescing on their surface, and bringing salt and barrenness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Is not, after all, Love the one supreme and significant fact of the cosmos: indelible, indecipherable: efflorescing in Man; emerging from the material; idealizing the carnal; pointing to an inscrutable, a spiritual goal?

From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain

Has the slow re- absorption of this gas, it may be asked, given to the lime in the cells of the lava, that peculiar fibrous structure, like that of an efflorescing salt?

From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

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