procreant

Example Sentences

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But this "procreant cradle" of a bird in the arms of the fanged desert growth softens its aspect a little.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

But he proved procreant and reared a goodly brood of sons and daughters—all much like himself, save one, the youngest son.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert

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

Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery