He might have lodged a good seed in his heart, which in the hour of sickness might have Germinated.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The early seed, so full of promise, has Germinated and grown-but it's come up cabbages.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum
The barrack-room proverb which declares that ill-luck follows the volunteer must assuredly have Germinated in a commonplace brain.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson