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Crop up   /krɑp əp/   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 up" Quotes from Famous Books



... possession my permit to visit all the Italian galleries, with my photo pasted on to it. This proved me to be Conway Evans, living in Florence; but while the examination was going on, I wondered how long it would be before the question of my nationality would crop up. ...
— An Account of Our Arresting Experiences • Conway Evans
... young, and you are beautiful. On my word of honor, that evening I was struck to the heart. I said to myself, 'If I had not Josepha, since old Hulot neglects his wife, she would fit me like a glove.' Forgive me—it is a reminiscence of my old business. The perfumer will crop up now and then, and that is what keeps me from ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... thing, Hubert; and, strange to say, have remembered it only lately. Things lie dormant in the memory for years, and then crop up again. Upon getting home from one of my long voyages, your mother greeted me with the news that your heart was weak; the doctor had told her so. I gave the fellow a trimming for putting so ridiculous a notion into her head—and ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... sorrow. By that token he was a marked man. At irregular intervals he made frantic attempts to disguise it; but the only dye that would serve at all was a jet-black and looked like the devil in contrast with his high colouring. Moreover, before a week passed, the red would crop up again wherever the hair grew thin, lending him the appearance of ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... in mind that each stranger that you may meet may be Morton or some other member of the gang. The second is that I should like to keep in touch with you for the remainder of the day in case any question might crop up before the ...
— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts


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