procreant
Example Sentences
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The life outlives them and disdains; The sense which makes the soul remains, And blood of thought which travaileth To bring forth hope with procreant pains.
From Two Nations by Algernon Charles Swinburne
And then most birds will sooner or later betray the presence of their nests, but the Kentucky warblers seldom do so, knowing too well how to keep their procreant secrets.
From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a wheat-field, suspended in the head of a thistle.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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
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
