Thus he speaks of Aether as the Fructifying father, of Earth as the great mother of all living things.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
This is one of the most distinctive notes of George Eliot's art, and gives a quickening, Fructifying quality to her moral teaching.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Osiris, who in old legend represented the Nile, or the coarse Fructifying powers of nature, passes into the Eternal Love and Beauty, pure, passionless, remote from any region of change or death, unapproachable in His ethereal splendour, save, as in moments of inspired musing, we may faintly touch Him as in a dream.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill