upgrowth

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Her sons were goodly and delightsome to her in their upgrowth, but they are well-nigh men.

From The Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

But Cecil and his mistress could watch the upgrowth of national wealth with cooler eyes.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard

Bloomingdale's was at Third Avenue and Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Streets, but it was a gradual upgrowth, from a modest beginning upon that original important corner.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

In this way, growing at its edge, deepening, and contributing to an upgrowth from the bottom, a few centuries may serve entirely to fill a deep basin with peaty accumulation.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate

Its formation as an open upgrowth of the centro-dorsal area, and the fact that it appears and disappears without closing in Argonauta and Octopus, was demonstrated by E. Ray Lankester.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various