This led him to study more closely the reproductive habits of the oyster.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
When I put the article down, my first thoughts were these: This wonderful man can do or undertake nothing without producing his own self from his inner fullness he can never be merely reproductive; no other action than the purely productive is possible to him; all in him tends to absolute, pure production, and yet he has never yet concentrated his whole power of will on the production of a great work.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
But the proprietor of watercress beds attaches little importance to the fact that he possesses large beds of this wholesome and reproductive plant, and you will not see it on his table once in a month of Sundays.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs