procreant
Example Sentences
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Seed time and harvest, as old as the procreant earth and as new as the latest sunrise, are his to conjure.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Cf. 'no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.'
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
Let some procreant truth exhale From me, before my forces fail; Or ere the ecstatic impulse go, Let all my buds to blossoms blow.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
An odour of resinous gum is wafted from them, and upon one of the slender sprays a pair of diminutive goldcrests have hung their procreant cradle.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard