The pattern and ideal of such cleverness is the east wind, which makes all that is fair and sensitive to shut itself up, forbids the bud to expand into a blossom, and puts back the coming of the springtime and of the singing bird.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It simply meant that another man had found and appreciated this sheltered flower of womanhood that he had watched grow, and bud, and bloom, and that she had aroused in this other man a passion akin to his own.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
"Mick Ross 'n bud Morrison were in here, couple of nights ago," Steve went on.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard