Could that which procures a freer vent for the products of the earth, which furnishes new incitements to the cultivation of land, which is the most powerful instrument in increasing the quantity of money in a state -- could that, in fine, which is the faithful handmaid of labor and industry, in every shape, fail to augment that article, which is the
prolific parent of far the greatest part of the objects upon which they are exerted?
In the mean time, Seymour Delafield, after casting one longing, lingering look at Miss Henley, became the husband of her friend, and made the fourteenth in the
prolific family of the Osgoods, where his wealth was not less agreeable to the parents, than his person to the daughter.
Out of the plentiful spawn of life she flung from her
prolific hand she selected only the best.
But Grimaud's ingenuity was more
prolific than his speech, and therefore at the first halt he sold his steed and with the money obtained from the purchase took post horses.
It was Hegan,
prolific of resource and suggestion, who opened Daylight's eyes to undreamed possibilities in twentieth-century warfare; and it was Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and elaborating, who planned the campaigns and prosecuted them.
They were now illuminated by the morning radiance of a young child's disposition, but, later in the day of earthly existence, might be
prolific of the storm and whirlwind.
The immediate cause of the decision was a somewhat sadder accident than was common, even in a career
prolific in such things.
The box was full of things he had been waiting for impatiently; a new volume of Herbert Spencer, another collection of the
prolific Alphonse Daudet's brilliant tales, and a novel called "Middlemarch," as to which there had lately been interesting things said in the reviews.
He was a stout bluff-looking gentleman, with no shirt-collar to speak of, and a beard that had been growing since yesterday morning; for Dr Lumbey was popular, and the neighbourhood was
prolific; and there had been no less than three other knockers muffled, one after the other within the last forty-eight hours.
One great blemish in the popular mind of America, and the
prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust.
The foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a
prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in the face of her danger.
Pepper was a bore; Rachel was an unlicked girl, no doubt
prolific of confidences, the very first of which would be: "You see, I don't get on with my father." Willoughby, as usual, loved his business and built his Empire, and between them all she would be considerably bored.