Some leading spirit founds one, and, when his influence vanishes with himself, the club wanes; perhaps it pales before a rival, perhaps it amalgamates with another.
"Boating"
W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason
This often proves to be a ruinous mistake; the sap ascends to the leaves, and there amalgamates with what they absorb from the atmosphere, and thus forms food for the vine and fruit.
"Soil Culture"
J. H. Walden
Now, it is not an arbitrary relation which unites and amalgamates these two elements in dogma; it is an organic and necessary relation.
"Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History"
Auguste Sabatier