Love sympathises, makes allowance for frailty, discovers the germs of good, hopeth all things, taketh not account of evil.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Helen thought first-class carriages would have fewer germs in them.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Obvious principles are always ready, like germs, to come to life when the congenial soil is provided.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen