He says: I conceive that the sordid coarseness and brutality of Jonas would be unnatural, if there had been nothing in his early education, and in the precept and example always before him, to engender and develop the vices that make him odious.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
If the city people do not have enough to eat they will realize their error, and this will engender the shrinkage of the cities, which will in turn bring about the amelioration of the city's evils.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
We had fallen into a kind of discussion upon the singular intimacy which had so rapidly grown up amongst us, and which years long might have failed to engender.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)