procreant

Example Sentences

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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 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

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

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

During the season of incubation and brood rearing the nuthatches retire to the depth of the woods, and are quiet, secretive, and unsocial, seldom betraying their procreant secrets.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)