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
An odour of resinous gum is wafted from them, and upon one of the slender sprays a pair of diminutive goldcrests have hung their procreant cradle.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry
