efflorescence

• Then everything seemed to come out as an efflorescence, a spilling of his 'personality.' —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• The colonist of our time is an exotic under glass,—full, as yet, of sap and stamina drawn from his native America, but nursed with care and exhibited as the efflorescence of modern philanthropy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
• The ground itself was covered with a white efflorescence, which stuck to our feet, and made us slip at every step As our eyes became accustomed to the light, we discovered that we were in the midst of fungi or mushrooms of every shape and colour. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• Its surface is then covered with a white efflorescence, which resembles a heavy hoar frost; this, called salitre_, being a sort of impure saltpetre, left after the evaporation and subsidence of the floods They have entered this cheerless waste, and are about midway across it, when the cry of alarm is heard; he who gave utterance to it being older than the others, and credited with greater knowledge of things. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• Something besides in that now assailing them; which sweeping across the salitral has lifted the sulphureous efflorescence, that beats into their eyes bitter and blinding as the smoke of tobacco. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

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