Fertile

Examples

• I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Since they had the richest and most fertile in the world, they have both ceased to be so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was finer, more fertile, altogether richer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The paper industry, with book binding machines, and paper box machines, is a fertile field of invention. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From these facts it can no longer be maintained that varieties when crossed are invariably quite fertile. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In a country naturally fertile, but of which the far greater part is altogether uncultivated, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A rice field produces a much greater quantity of food than the most fertile corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And the insight is enormously fertile. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let us go--the world is our country now, and we will choose for our residence its most fertile spot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The rent and profit of barley land, besides, must always be nearly equal to those of other equally fertile and equally well cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Rent comes in but for a very small share, frequently for no share; and the most fertile mines only afford any considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I lead you into the most fertile plain in the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With the fertile earth, and its prolific inventors, the United States has become the richest country in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Telegraph operators were naturally in touch with this movement, and Edison's fertile imagination was readily inflamed by the glowing idea of all these vague possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries; but we saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded, and rich in pasture. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The redwoods bear non-fertile cones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Like our native England, and the vast extent of fertile France, this mountain-embowered land was desolate of its inhabitants. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The island is upon our shores, is very fertile, and is capable of supporting fifteen millions of people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I began to muster all the energies of my character, generally fertile in resources, to consider of a remedy for this coming evil. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Quatrefages states that the hybrids from two moths (Bombyx cynthia and arrindia) were proved in Paris to be fertile inter se for eight generations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Other coal mines in the same country, sufficiently fertile, cannot be wrought on account of their situation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now some issues are fertile; some are not. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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