For want of that ardent inner curiosity which is the only true foundation for the appreciation of beauty-for beauty is inward, not outward-we find ourselves hastening from land to land, gathering mere curious resemblances which, like unassimilated property, possess no power of fecundation.
"Adventures In Friendship"
David Grayson
All these symbols of fecundation, these perfumes, radiations, and breathings overwhelmed him.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
These are copulation, fecundation, gestation and parturition.
"Common Diseases of Farm Animals"
R. A. Craig, D. V. M.