procreant

Example Sentences

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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)

And then most birds will sooner or later betray the presence of their nests, but the Kentucky warblers seldom do so, knowing too well how to keep their procreant secrets.

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

The male incubates and rears the young; and the procreant habits seem altogether like those of Rhea americana.

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

No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle.

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham

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