Productive

Examples

• Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape--far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rent of land is paid for the use of a productive subject. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What mattered was the great social productive machine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Of very important, very recordable events, it was not more productive than such meetings usually are. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Furthermore, the vessels were enabled to double their number of productive trips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The reaper had been primarily necessary in America, because here farm labor was very scarce, and the wheat fields enormously productive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Without such exportation, a part of the productive labour of the country must cease, and the value of its annual produce diminish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And this is the Godmotion, this productive repetition ad infinitum. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And in the midst of their walk an incident occurred which, though very simple in its nature, was productive of the greatest delight to Major Dobbin. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We are a non-productive race, priding ourselves upon our non-productiveness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The laboratory is a discovery of the condition under which labor may become intellectually fruitful and not merely externally productive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The tax upon mum, though much heavier, is still less productive, on account of the smaller consumption of that liquor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such are in general the effects of the increase of stock upon industry and its productive powers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures, can ever occasion so great reproduction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If he uses it as a capital, he employs it in the maintenance of productive labourers, who reproduce the value, with a profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not only his labouring servants, but his labouring cattle, are productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• With your showing you had better give up Kingston at the last moment and save the most productive part of your possessions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They might both maintain indifferently, either productive or unproductive hands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The persons whose capitals are employed in any of those four ways, are themselves productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The demand for productive labour, by the increase of the funds which are destined for maintaining it, grows every day greater and greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What he wants to abolish is the repressive, not the productive state. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here at the bottom of a dying world was the only naturally productive area upon its surface. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The funds for maintaining productive labour being the same, the demand for it would be the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It would depress productive labour, by encouraging too hastily that labour which is altogether barren and unproductive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is his spare revenue only, of which productive labourers have seldom a great deal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And the whole productive will of man was the Godhead. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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