Word: buds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bud, to grow, to die; bring joy or blight...
...That bud again for one soft week in fall...
...reception which the Amherst boys planned to give to the fair students of Smith College was nipped in the bud by the Presidents of both institutions...
...bud and flower, on bush and tree...
...poem (to be continued), entitled "The Tide of Time." It is apparently a judicious combination of "Paradise Lost" and "Queen Mab"! but after deep consideration we are still unable to decide whether it is a parody, or intended to be serious. "I'll nip the canker in the bud" is a pleasing, though at first sight a startling figure; nipping cankerworms must be an agreeable entertainment on a spring morning in the country. The gentleman who makes this remark in the poem, is - Well, his name is not usually mentioned in polite society; and be makes it apropos...