progeniture

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His beneficent activities might seem to afford a meeting ground with the Vegetation goods—"Il donne l'accroissement, il donne l'abondance, il donne les troupeaux, il donne la progeniture et la vie."

From From Ritual to Romance by Weston, Jessie Laidlay

The higher oviparous vertebrates, especially the birds, take care of their progeniture for some time after laying.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

Something I think of Dickens' own blood passed into this special progeniture of his.

From Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas)

And named after the progeniture of Jupiter65 thou shalt give birth to swarthy Epaphus, who shall reap the harvest of all the land which the wide-streaming Nile waters.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Fathers of families do it at the head of an admiring progeniture; aunts and uncles and grandmothers do it; all the family does it, with varying splendour but with the same good conscience.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry