But for work to give a full harvest it must be fertilised by will.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
And while he threw the ears with contempt into a flower border in the garden, Gabriel thought with delight of the atavic force which had resuscitated in a Catholic church, the pagan offering: the homage to the divinity of the firstfruits of the earth fertilised by the spring.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez
From all the provinces of France labourers were attracted who settled there and improved and fertilised the fields.
"The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)"
Margaret, Queen Of Navarre