And yet he could not deny that a divine relief possessed him, and that the future, instead of wearing a lead-colored mask, now Blossomed with a thousand varied gaieties and excitements.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
A change had been wrought; in some cases a great change, as in that of some weedy girl who had Blossomed into fair womanhood.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
This conquest is one of the most extraordinary held forth in history; the flower of nobility was wholly nipped off; the spirit of the English depressed, and having no head to direct, or hand to cultivate the courage of the people and lead it into action, it dwindled at the root, was trampled under the foot of tyranny, and, according to Smollet, several generations elapsed before any one of the old English stock Blossomed into peerage.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton