Fructifying

The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the messenger of spring. ❋ [email protected] (Telegraph: Horatio Cl (2010)

The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I find convincing the argument that there was some intellectual activity in non-Muslim lands for a few centuries after the initial conquest, as long as the Christians and Jews (in the Middle East) were still a significant and fructifying influence, and that when they ceased to be, such activity came to an abrupt end. ❋ Laban (2006)

These sources were the printed cases; they expressed, in manifold dress, the few, everevolving and fructifying principles which constituted the genius of the common law. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

This heat is likewise in plants, as appears by their increasing, fructifying, &c., though not so easily perceived. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“The Kirk of Scotland was shorn of its beams, and deprived of its full artillery and banners of authority; but still it contained zealous and fructifying pastors, attentive congregations, and, with all her spots and blemishes, the like of this Kirk was nowhere else to be seen upon earth.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even when he vows to support and continue the war to exterminate terrorists, McCain does not generate the same kind of electricity; I mean anxiety, or fear planting and fructifying which Bush does. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In total, we have collected 505 specimens and 85 samples of fructifying plants with seeds this year. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When Hamsun speaks of Isak passing across the yearning, spring-stirred fields, “with the grain flung in fructifying waves from his reverent hands,” he pictures it deliberately in the light of a religious rite — the oldest and most significant known to man. ❋ Unknown (2003)

You need not any way doubt but that feminine old age is always fructifying in qualities sublime — I would have said sibylline. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Here is a different kind of propagation from that in herbs and trees: for there the power of fructifying is in the plants, and that of germinating is in the seed; but here generation takes place. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

The preparation of all fructifying grace is in Christ, as the fruit of the branches is naturally in the vine. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Thereby are they ingrafted into the olive, are made such branches in Christ, the true vine, as derive vital juice, nourishment, and fructifying virtue from him, even by the Spirit. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

It is in us as the fructifying sap is in a branch of the vine or olive. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

He comes upon the dry, parched, barren ground of the hearts of men, with his refreshing, fructifying virtue and blessing, causing them to spring and bring forth fruits in holiness and righteousness to God, ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)