procreant
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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
It only becomes a thing of delight when Time is being borne to his tomb in eternity, for then the spirit of the Earth, man’s procreant mind, fills it with his own joyousness.
From Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
No jutty frieze, Buttrice, nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
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
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 John Burroughs
