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  • La Raza Unida Party, founded in South Texas, became the arm of the movement's burgeoning political campaigns.†   (source)
  • I wasn't the only one witnessing the burgeoning prostitution trade along Dixie Highway.†   (source)
  • The competition for resources intensifies, and burgeoning tribes itch to kill each other.†   (source)
  • And we realized the importance of our coming missions, to halt the ever-burgeoning influx of Taliban recruits streaming in over the high peaks of the Hindu Kush and to capture their leaders for interrogation.†   (source)
  • Her burgeoning anger dissipates, replaced by concern.†   (source)
  • And I did kill them, kills infinitely varied and great distances apart, as I walked with the vampire's sight and light movement through this teeming, burgeoning city, my victims surrounding me, seducing me, inviting me to their supper tables, their carriages, their brothels.†   (source)
  • I Won't Bore You with all the tedious details of the next seven months' the day-to-day grind, belly burgeoning around the life growing inside me.†   (source)
  • He felt such a burgeoning fear in his chest that it was hard to breathe.†   (source)
  • These are the venerated emblems of the burgeoning economy, easier to identify than the names of battlefields or dead presidents.†   (source)
  • There was a low, burgeoning whistle as the kettle started to boil.†   (source)
  • Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.†   (source)
  • The girls led them up four steep, very long flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that occurred there and tried her best to tidy up.†   (source)
  • The slave population, too, had burgeoned to nearly 700,000 men, women, and children who had no freedom whatever.†   (source)
  • I knew very well that all he said was ridiculous, not light for their darkness but flattery, illusion, a vortex pulling them from sunlight to heat, a kind of midsummer burgeoning, waltz to the sickle.†   (source)
  • Broken Arrow definitely burgeons, then.†   (source)
  • Her troops will occupy Kowloon, the island and all of the burgeoning New Territories.†   (source)
  • That raises an interesting question about the burgeoning offshore call-center industry in Bangalore, India.†   (source)
  • He combined his burgeoning knowledge with logic, enthusiasm, and rhetoric, and he made a little go a long way.†   (source)
  • Or here was the law: as his life diminished, theirs burgeoned, requiring attention.†   (source)
  • Alan was told that Reliant, along with a number of other vendors interested in providing services to the King Abdullah Economic City, were to prepare their wares and present them at a site to be determined, somewhere at the coastal heart of the burgeoning city, and that they would be notified shortly before the King would arrive.†   (source)
  • But even before I learned the full truth concerning what happened to her, I was able to re-create a smudged view of the events of that day—a day which the records describe as being prematurely warm and greenly burgeoning with spring, ferns unfolding, the forsythia in early bud, the air sunshiny and clear.†   (source)
  • She shook her head; under the kerchief it was burgeoning with curlers.†   (source)
  • Government debt burgeons in an economic slowdown.
  • Her entry arches burgeoned with carved cinquefoils.†   (source)
  • And yet he knew that antimatter was nothing-another weapon in man's already burgeoning arsenal.†   (source)
  • I She had a burgeoning suspicion that the world was laughing at her.†   (source)
  • At home, burgeoning manhood was a trigger for apprehension.†   (source)
  • The first was a burgeoning industry of escapism.†   (source)
  • Yeah, except I don't know what 'burgeoning' means.†   (source)
  • Peter's ancestral tree burgeoned with the names of wealthy business magnates, influential politicians, and a number of distinguished scientists, some even fellows of London's Royal Society.†   (source)
  • Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaims in Mermish — do not repress it!†   (source)
  • As the sphere of light grew, it intensified, like a burgeoning fiend preparing to consume the entire sky.†   (source)
  • Christians could invent and believe in the parable of the loaves and fishes, for their farmers can trust in abundance, and ship it to burgeoning cities, where people can afford to spend their lives hardly noticing, or caring, that a seed produces a plant.†   (source)
  • Its elegant stacks burgeoned with over a quarter of a million volumes, including a rare copy of the Ahiman Rezon, The Secrets of a Prepared Brother.†   (source)
  • The steep, stony mountain crevasses and cliffs, dust-colored, sinister places, were now alive with the burgeoning armies of the Taliban.†   (source)
  • There on that shelf were all the dates and silliness of their early love, the braid that began to form of their dreams, the solid root of a burgeoning family.†   (source)
  • She was convinced she needed a professional journalist, not another earnest organic gardener, to do that, and she wanted to take on more challenging and important stories about the environment, genetic engineering, factory farming, and the burgeoning organic movement.†   (source)
  • Madame Manec's energy, Marie-Laure is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts bisques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour.†   (source)
  • The colossal stone interior burgeons with the remains of kings, statesmen, scientists, poets, and musicians.†   (source)
  • The Smithsonian museums burgeoned with our inventions, our art, our science, and the ideas of our great thinkers.†   (source)
  • Raising his eyes again to the Louvre, he sensed the huge wings of the museum enveloping him...hallways that burgeoned with the world's finest art.†   (source)
  • Like a taunting silhouette emerging from the fog, the branches of Britain's oldest apple tree burgeoned with five-petaled blossoms, all glistening like Venus.†   (source)
  • Like a Puppy I stay, and for once I stay long enough for the ice dam to melt, warm into an easy flow, burgeoning into a river of need.†   (source)
  • Mark saw the man's finger move, close on the trigger, but somehow, as if his burgeoning madness had momentarily heightened all of his senses one last time, Mark somehow outpaced him.†   (source)
  • For miles through Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, where well-tended farms were burgeoning with crops in the "luxuriant" season, Adams delighted in the scenery.†   (source)
  • A burgeoning metropolis.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later she would write to him again of further progress with the "subscription" ships, her enthusiasm for the burgeoning navy clearly as great as that of her husband.†   (source)
  • But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the "Grand Federal Procession" held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.†   (source)
  • The tyrannic scent of May was in the air; it was the time when young hearts blossom and burgeon, and boys try to think of heroic deeds.†   (source)
  • a name emerging from Ellen's vain and garrulous folly, that shape without even a face yet because I had not even seen the photograph then, reflected in the secret and bemused gaze of a young girl: because I who had learned nothing of love, not even parents' love—that find dear constant violation of privacy, that stultification of the burgeoning and incorrigible I which is the meed and due of all mammalian meat, became not mistress, not beloved, but more than even love; I became all polymath love's androgynous advocate.†   (source)
  • Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded-bud out of bud out of bud-were thereafter-further arrest being generally fatal-left to develop in peace.†   (source)
  • They will fall bursted on the loamy warm wet earth; when the wind blows in the orchard the air will be filled with dropping plums; the night will be filled with the sound of their dropping, and a great tree of birds will sing, burgeoning, blossoming richly, filling the air also with warm-throated plum-dropping bird-notes.†   (source)
  • I was surprised, and a little bit awed by the fact, like a person who learns unexpectedly that he has inherited a million dollars, all lying up there in the bank for him to draw on, or who learns that the little stitch in the side is cancer and that he is carrying around inside himself that mysterious, apocalyptic, burgeoning thing which is part of himself but is, at the same time, not part of himself but the enemy.†   (source)
  • His life was like that river, rich with its own deposited and onward-borne agglutinations, fecund with its sedimental accretions, filled exhaustlessly by life in order to be more richly itself, and this life, with the great purpose of a river, he emptied now into the harbor of his house, the sufficient haven of himself, for whom the gnarled vines wove round him thrice, the earth burgeoned with abundant fruit and blossom, the fire burnt madly.†   (source)
  • There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.†   (source)
  • The youth of the race seemed burgeoning in me, over-civilized man that I was, and I lived for myself the old hunting days and forest nights of my remote and forgotten ancestry.†   (source)
  • It was a beautiful day, with the burgeoning greenery of the steep banks blurring in the ruffled surface of the loch.†   (source)
  • Mother's milk, Purefoy, the milk of human kin, milk too of those burgeoning stars overhead rutilant in thin rainvapour, punch milk, such as those rioters will quaff in their guzzling den, milk of madness, the honeymilk of Canaan's land.†   (source)
  • MOS: I fear, I shall begin to grow in love With my dear self, and my most prosperous parts, They do so spring and burgeon; I can feel A whimsy in my blood: I know not how, Success hath made me wanton.†   (source)
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