- a variation of burgeon.
bourgeon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“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 Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
Then, for a little while, the spring delays to bourgeon into summer: the woodland maid lingers at the garden gate of womanhood, reluctant to enter and leave behind the wild sweetness of freedom and uncertainty.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
She plays an Hydra upon the Emperor, that is full as good as the Gorgon: O that I had the fruitful heads of Hydra, That one might bourgeon where another fell!
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theaters, and the lights of the ball-room, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out.
From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert
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