Citations:bloom


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!
 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin.
 * 2013,, , New York: Scribner, 2014, Chapter 11, p.56,
 * It was the morning of the Fourth of July and kids were lighting smoke bombs, sulfurous coils of red and green, the colors dense and bright like concentrated dye ‘’’blooming’’’ through water.