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Bubble up   /bˈəbəl əp/   Listen
Bubble up

verb
1.
Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically.  Synonym: intumesce.  "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"






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"Bubble up" Quotes from Famous Books



... more powerful and fascinating to those who have known the man himself, known him during the time his genius has been forcing him to eminence. He does not fill the eye as a sanctified hero should; he is too vitally human, too affectionate, too bitter, and he has, moreover, springs of humor which bubble up continually. (You cannot imagine an archangel with a sense of humor.) But it is this very mixture in the man that holds the character student. Lloyd George is quite unpretentious, loves children, will join heartily in the chorus ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot

... wound in the neck the blood was still spouting. Quickly the Sergeant was on his knees beside the wounded man, his thumb pressed hard upon the gaping wound. But still the blood continued to bubble up and squirt from under his thumb. All around, the earthen floor was ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... offence, my heart full and bubble up. I wonder what Miss Barbara say if she see you mooing and cooing with dark-eyed ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard

... with a new cistern. For it is one of the drawbacks upon our Eden that it contains no water fit either to drink or to bathe in; so that the showers have become, in good truth, a godsend. I wonder why Providence does not cause a clear, cold fountain to bubble up at our doorstep; methinks it would not be unreasonable to pray for such a favor. At present we are under the ridiculous necessity of sending to the outer world for water. Only imagine Adam trudging out of Paradise with a bucket in each hand, to get ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... are by no means identical: one is the attribute of the heart, the other of the head; and eloquence, however unadorned, is always effective, because it is born of the feelings; and there is ever a sympathy between the hearts of men, and the words, however rude and original, which bubble up from the heart freighted with its feelings, rush with electrical force and velocity to the heart, and stir to the extent of its capacities. Oratory, however finished, is from the brain, and is an art; it may convince the mind and ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks


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