Usage of "efflorescence"

This latter phenomenon, known as efflorescence, is mostly confined to artificial salts. 
 A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min... 

White cotton caps and red bandanna handkerchiefs were the prevailing forms of efflorescence. 
 Elsie Venner 

He knew that the only proper decoration was an integral efflorescence of structure. 
 Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal... 

Lillian had previously seen such things; she recognized the efflorescence of a limestone cavern. 
 The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee 

A great speech is a crystallization in its logic, an efflorescence in its poetry. 
 The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews 

Gods are of all things the most marvellous efflorescence of the human psychic world. 
 Impressions and Comments 

Following in their footsteps is an inexhaustible efflorescence of prodigies. 
 The Dream 

For the expression is not the cause of his life, but only its efflorescence. 
 The Principles of Aesthetics 

The new ice over which I walked is extraordinarily slippery and free from efflorescence. 
 Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai... 

Not that the individual's private efflorescence is at all thwarted by the racial purpose. 
 Last and First Men 

The efflorescence itself was covered with a plaster of ung. 
 The Harvard Classics Volume 38 / Scientific Papers (Physiology, ... 

Love, romantic love, the efflorescence and bloom of life, is besmirched unless tenderly touched. 
 Hints for Lovers 

Ya, as a termination, implies by analogy, progress, movement, efflorescence. 
 The Coming Race 

This was the room in which the wisdom of South Kensington attained a complete efflorescence. 
 Modern Painting 

The surface of the plain was in a great measure covered with a white efflorescence. 
 Byeways in Palestine 

To the period of Clemens's residence in Fifth Avenue belongs his efflorescence in white serge. 
 My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) 