Conception is nothing but an action of the womb, by which the prolific seed is received and retained, that an infant may be engendered and formed out of it.
Following closely upon the discovery of the telephone the phonograph came, literally speaking for itself, and adding another surprise to the wonderful inventions of that prolific period.
With the fertile earth, and its prolific inventors, the United States has become the richest country in the world.
Connecticut is the most productive State in invention in proportion to its people, and Edison is the most prolific inventor.
I would therefore place prolific bearing and cracking qualities as the two most important points to be considered in selecting a variety worthy of planting.
Some of the heaviest-bearing sorts, such as the Chase, Prolific and El Monte, produce nuts that cannot be sold in the very best grade of the commercial product.
On the other hand, such varieties as the Prolific have a spreading, bushy habit and an almost semi-dwarfness characterizes their growth.
The heads of the Leichhardt and Gregory Rivers are particularlyprolific in springs; the latter river, as I have already noticed, being one of the steadiest flowing rivers in Australia.
As Defoe is known mainly by his story of the island castaway, so Swift is known by his bitter satire, Gulliver's Travels, although he was a prolific writer of political pamphlets.
When things are all trimmed down to a dead level of uniformity by the central power, as in France, a prolific source of valuable experiences is cut off and shut up.
It is the prolific root from which springs that luxuriant crop of humbug upon which political tricksters thrive as pigs fatten upon corn.
Of course Russia was prolific of "assurances" as she always has been in similar circumstances.
But St. Petersburg officialdom, wounded in pride and shaken in nerve as it was, still preserved a bold front to the world, and excuses for the disaster that had befallen the Russian arms were as prolific as ever.
His alert and too-prolific fancy even endangered his other gifts by putting in the shade his real intellectual endowments.
The tempests which are frequent during the seasons of the equinox, and which are so prolific in catastrophes, are above all terrible over this immense ocean, which opposes no obstacle to their fury.
Now and then some angler confidently announces that he has caught a true salmon in this delightful and prolific stream.
The next miasmatic generator is sycosis, or the disposition to warty excrescences; but this source of disease Hahnemann does not consider so prolific as syphilis, or his favourite psora.
One is that spread of knowledge and that accompanying change in moral attitude which is more and more sterilising the once prolific American home, and the second is the rising standard of feminine education.
Thus prepared the oat is a most prolific source of disturbed digestion.
Sugar in its various forms is a very prolific food product.
Sidenote: Despondency, the result of superacidity] The foods named in the above menus will remove the primary causes of fermentation, which in turn is the most prolific cause of that abnormal mental condition called despondency.
But who cannot see, that slavery is the common mother of all this brood of hellish ills; in whose frightfully prolific womb they are conceived, and by whom they are brought forth.
You must put the odious dam to death, or she will continue to multiply her infernal progeny, and send them abroad among us, prolific in woes.
The chase, for instance, though perhaps as prolific in deeds of daring as the camp, has found few Cummings and Gerards for annalists, and the more trivial aim of the pursuit diminishes the permanence of its records.
And the prolific man grew indignant thinking of Gallardo's future offspring being brought into the world with no other purpose than to harm his own.
He also was prolific in his fidelity, as befits a man of good principles, so that a swarm of young children buzzed about the little tavern clinging to the mother's skirts.
In two generations after this prolific Ellis with his sixteen sons, the whole family disappears.
The families were prolific, but apparently those most prolific most rapidly exhausted their vitality.
Besides the wealth of the forests, the Dales contain some of the largest and most prolific iron mines in Sweden, notably those of Grangesberg.
Dancourt was a prolific author, and produced some sixty plays in all.
The sun-myths have been so prolific because the dramatic types to which they have given rise are of surpassing human interest.
These examples show that a story-root may be as prolific of heterogeneous offspring as a word-root.
How absurd, therefore, to suppose that primeval savages originated a language which has held its own like the old Aryan and become the prolific mother of the three or four thousand dialects now in existence!
Three years at least would be spent there; years wealthy with all blessing, or prolific of evil and regret.
This very undistinguished artist was one of the most prolific producers of the school.
At precisely the same time, he was esteemed by Japanese connoisseurs to be a prolificbut vulgar artisan, whose mere craftsman-dexterity could not compensate for his lack of lofty feeling and poetic vision.
Also that the variety was quite satisfactory in many parts of England, and concludes that the Golden Pippin only requires the most genial situation, to render it as prolific is formerly.
He advocated every measure calculated to promote the independence of his country and was prolific in plans for the accomplishment of that much desired object.
As a financier his genius was of the most prolific kind.
Ingenuity could not then nor with its prolific growth could it now construe the act into a pre-judgment of the case.
The mind of Mr. Clymer was prolific and happy in plans of usefulness and utility.
During these rapid removes Mr. Harrison remained cool, collected and firm and was prolific in the best measures to ward off impending dangers.
The mental powers of George Clymer were composed of a deep and prolificmould capable of producing the richest fruits.
Under his tuition the germs of knowledge took deep root in the prolific mental soil of young Lee and produced plants of rapid and luxuriant growth.
Here is a model letter worthy the imitation of the elaborate epistle manufacturers of the present prolificera of verbosity, ambiguity and repetition.
