- a variation of burgeon.
bourgeon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
“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)
And further still the summer, When thy fair tree, fully grown, Shall bourgeon, and grow splendid With blossoms of its own, And the fruit begins to gather, But the buttercups are mown.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
My budding Daphne wanted scope To bourgeon all her flowers of hope.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
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