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Crop out   /krɑp aʊt/   Listen
verb
Crop  v. i.  To yield harvest.
To crop out.
(a)
(Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.
(b)
To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.
To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. "Cares crop up in villas."





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"Crop out" Quotes from Famous Books



... Well, it may crop out later. I thought first it must be Miss Preston, but she said that she did not know any more about it than we ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... subsistence. Beyond was a narrow path between moving rocks which each instant crushed together, grinding to atoms the less nimble of the pilgrims who essayed to pass." [1] A vestige of the same belief seems to crop out in a custom of some of the tribes of Central Africa, as appears from the remarks of a recent traveller. "When a death occurs," says Major Serpa Pinto, "the body is shrouded in a white cloth, and, being covered with an ox-hide, ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... is, she could make ten times that amount by exhibiting herself. She is a curiosity. But if I were Mrs. Bradley I wouldn't have her in the house. So many virtues piled one on the other are sure to make an unsafe structure, and I believe some poor, miserable little vice will crop out somewhere ...
— Paste Jewels • John Kendrick Bangs
... crop out from the long chain of causes," thought Paul; "but who shall tell the final issue? Look here, Rachel," he continued, as he laid his hand on a golden locket which lay before him in the shape of a ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various
... be so accidental and superficial as to seem absurd to another person, or it may be so fundamental as to express the universal thought of man from the beginning of time. Many of the signs and symbols which crop out in neurotic symptoms and in normal dreams are the same as those which appear in myths, fairy tales and folk-lore and in the art of ...
— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury


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