"Fertile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Courteneys, the captain himself being half Dutch in his origin, might incline to do more for those people down-stairs than was just to those above them—every way above them. The general called it a criminal error to plant the victims of a deadly contagion along a great national highway, like fertile seed in a fertile furrow. The bishop counted it no mercy to the aliens themselves to keep them aboard when they could be set ashore in a rough sort of roofless quarantine on some such isolated spot as ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... tree his eyes Rinaldo bent, And there a marvel great and strange began; An aged oak beside him cleft and rent, And from his fertile, hollow womb, forth ran, Clad in rare weeds and strange habiliment, A nymph, for age able to go to man; An hundred plants beside, even in his sight, Childed an hundred nymphs, so great, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... of Erlingford Stood midst a fair domain, And Severn's ample waters near Roll'd through the fertile plain. ...
— Poems, 1799 • Robert Southey
... Mediterranean Sea lie Crete, a place which had now become of little importance; Sicily, as much Greek as Roman, fertile in crops and possessed of many a splendid Greek temple and theatre; Sardinia, an unhealthy island infested by banditti, and employed as a sort of convict station, producing some amount of grain and minerals; and Corsica, which bore much the same ...
— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker
... inforced by her Majesties late and singular clemency in pardoning certayne his unduetifull misdemeanour." And by the modern Editors, to the late King; as "a Treatise composed by the most extensive and fertile Genius that ever any ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith
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