The female had suffered repeated convulsions that affected the formation of the Embryos and we were an ugly litter of little mongrels, doomed by our physical imperfections to a shorter-than-normal life if we were allowed to live and exposed to early drowning if we could not quickly charm ourselves into a home.
"The Short Life"
Francis Donovan
The inhabitants of the Cherry Garden set forth their ideas about one another; but in reality none of them see anything but themselves, in their small and very limited moral world, and they analyze with difficulty the Embryos of thought that are left to them.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
As it happened, a couple of carrier Embryos were at just about the right stage.
"Cat and Mouse"
Ralph Williams