bourgeon
Britishnoun
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Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew, Gaily to bourgeon, and broadly to grow, While every Highland glen Sends our shout back agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
I know no brotherhood with far-lock'd woods, Where branches bourgeon from a kindred sap; Where o'er moss'd roots, in cool, green solitudes, Small silver brooklets lap.
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy
Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew, Gayly to bourgeon, and broadly to grow, While every Highland glen Sends our shout back again, “Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Statistics bourgeon into prophecies under his pen: he does not disdain their significance, but rather aids their influence with all the power which his spasmodic style has given in drawing our grotesque-loving public to him.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
“Clear away the parasitic forms That seem to keep her up, but drag her down; Leave her space to bourgeon out of all Within her.”
From The Education of American Girls by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
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