effloresce

• “They will dug fake tunnels, tunnel that leads to dead ends, tunnels that impossibly knot into themselves, tunnels with sonar-cancelling pings, tunnels that lead to police headquarters, tunnels that effloresce into a thicket of infinitely bifurcating tunnels, and tunnels that lead to other dimensions.”

  Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales

• “The newspaper age was dawning in America, an age that would effloresce into mass communications and the formation of a transformative popular culture.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “A great deal of chemical action then commences, salts of various kinds effloresce on the surface, and the mass becomes hard.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “In oil, verdigris is permanent with respect to light and air, but moisture and an impure atmosphere change its colour, and cause it to effloresce or rise to the surface through the oil.”

  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

• “The inexperienced ought here to be guarded against the highly improper practice of some artists, who strew their pictures while wet with acetate of lead, or use that substance in some other mode, without grinding or solution; which, though it may promote present drying, will ultimately effloresce on the surface of the work, throw off the colour in sandy spots, and expose the paintings to peculiar risk from the damaging influence of impure air.”

  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

• “Glauber's salt (sodium sulphate) produces a good smooth surface when added to soap, but, owing to its tendency to effloresce more quickly than soda carbonate, it is not so much used as formerly.”

  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture

• “Coromandel, the dried indigo lumps are allowed to effloresce in a cask for some time, and when they become hard they are wiped and packed for exportation.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “In regard to the great bulk of Shakespeare's diction it will enable us ten years hence to determine how much of it was known to literature before him, and how much of it he himself gathered or gleaned in highways and byways, or caused to ramify and effloresce from Saxon or classical roots and trunks, thus "endowing his purposes with words to make them known.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.

• “You will even notice rows of books in their rooms, and a picture or two, -- things that look as if they had surplus money; but these superfluities are the _water of crystallization_ to scholars, and you can never get them away till the poor fellows effloresce into dust.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859

• “No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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