procreant

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Slow ages seemed to have their will: And, moving toward the prime, Th' Eternal Immanency still Breathed in the senseless lime, Till a dead thing felt the procreant thrill, And shuddered back to time.

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan

Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

It was long ago felicitously stated by Whitman in his "Leaves of Grass," "Urge and urge, always the procreant urge of the world."

From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John

The mystery of the Bay-wings’ nest twice found containing over the usual complement of eggs is cleared up, and I have now suddenly become acquainted with the procreant instinct of the Screaming Cow-bird.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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)