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It was early morning; the breeze from the land blew sweet and fragrant, and the woods beyond the sandy beach bourgeoned in new leafage, green and tender.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

They have bourgeoned, but they have not blossomed.

If I May 1919

Street lamps, touched by the flame-tipped wand of a belated lamplighter, bourgeoned spasmodically like garish flowers of the metropolitan night.

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

In England, since the stealing forth of one lonely ship, heard of no more, three spring-times had kissed finger-tips to winter and bourgeoned into summer, and three summers had held court in pride, then shrivelled into autumn.

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

Sharp surprise and a palpable fear bourgeoned upon the Captain's face.

Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

Rig way took him across a field in which there was a newly bourgeoned copse; he remembered that, last spring, he had found white violets about the roots of the trees.

Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880

It would be like mutilating his own being; the brotherly affection that had bourgeoned and grown between him and that rustic had struck its roots down into his life, too deep to be slain like that.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Nevertheless, my little garden bourgeoned and blossomed under his large, protecting hand.

Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

Often he would creep away to the nest which Hugh had built and then forsaken; and seated there in the solitude of the wide-bourgeoned oak, he would sometimes feel for a moment as if lifted up above the world and its sorrows, to be visited by an all-healing wind from God, that came to him, through the wilderness of leaves around him -- gently, like all powerful things.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

That movement has bourgeoned globally as a result of U.S. actions that seem virtually calculated to incite Muslim outrage.

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