Might not this shred of memory chance to be a crystal of the right salt in the solvent of his mind, and set going a swift Arborescence to penetrate the whole?
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Thus passed the leafy time when Arborescence seems to be the one thing aimed at out of doors.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
It is that life of custom and accident in which many of us pass much of our time in this world; that life in which we do what we have not purposed, and speak what we do not mean, and assent to what we do not understand; that life which is overlaid by the weight of things external to it, and is moulded by them, instead of assimilating them; that which, instead of growing and blossoming under any wholesome dew, is crystallised over with it, as with hoar frost, and becomes to the true life what an Arborescence is to a tree, a candied agglomeration of thoughts and habits foreign to it, brittle, obstinate, and icy, which can neither bend nor grow, but must be crushed and broken to bits if it stands in our way.
"Ideala"
Sarah Grand