Burgeons Quotes
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Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
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More Burgeons Quotes
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
homer— VI. 146-150 (The Iliad (c. 7th century BC))
Now fades the last streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto115, l.1-4.
