"Fecund" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Shoulthwaite Moss was not long in circulating through Wythburn. One after another, the shepherds and their wives called in, and were taken to the silent room upstairs. Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise, and as often as not it was sorry comfort enough. Some stood all but speechless, only gasping out at intervals, "Deary me." Others, again, seemed afflicted with what old Matthew Branthwaite called "doddering" and a ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... lullaby of doom— And then to dream while fecund Night gives birth To other days like this day that is done. . But Morning . . . does it live beyond the gloom— This deep black pall that hangs above the earth— He fears the dark who dares ...
— Bars and Shadows • Ralph Chaplin
... offering, O you mighty gods, Look on this people kindly, let them prosper In health and increase. Let the fecund ground Grant us, your creatures, life to serve you well. Take of our offering, O you gods of war, Let men be brave and triumph in your name. Take of our offering, O you gods of sea, Spare us your wrath, and in your might depart Along the ocean to some far ...
— The Rose of Dawn - A Tale of the South Sea • Helen Hay |
