procreant

Example Sentences

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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 Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle.

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham

But this "procreant cradle" of a bird in the arms of the fanged desert growth softens its aspect a little.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

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 Leonard, William Ellery