Word: buds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first group is small. A very few flowers like our Violet, are completely fertilized before the bud opens, - the stamen and pistil coming into contact...
...have noticed two classes of individuals which these trying times produce, who ought to be ostracised by their fellow men, and, as it were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication...
...16th century. It is he who, a little earlier in the same century, aimed at higher game than the poor astrologer and alchemist, and, had he not been frightened off by a well aimed inkstand, might have succeeded in his very natural desire to nip the Reformation in the bud by carrying off Luther himself. Later on, about the end of the 18th century, the same Devil appeared to have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley all wrote short satires...
...that Princeton's hope die in the bud...
...departments of the University of Pennsylvania are now open to women. [Yale News.] Indeed? We are always ready to make due allowance for the surprising statements that creep into the college papers, but we think that the above peace of news had better be nipped in the bud. - [University Magazine...