fecundate
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Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas
In the first chapter we have spoken of the changes undergone by the fecundated ovule till it becomes the embryo and then the infant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The primitive lineaments of organization may be traced in the egg, even before it is fecundated.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
The first requisite is suitable water for hatching eggs that have been artificially fecundated, and for the occupancy of fish of different ages, and for different species of fish.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
His queens, though in hives deprived of males, had been fecundated, and he thence concludes that sexual intercourse is not requisite for their impregnation.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
That these historic Resolutions contained the fecundating germs of the Civil War, is by the way.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
Visions crossed his mind, born in the soft warm air of these fecundating winds, of this strange yet peaceful scene.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson
In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
