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Two separate frosts, during a century otherwise so full of movement as the sixteenth in England, repressed and killed all germinations of free intellectual or social intercourse amongst ourselves.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

Furthermore, the subjects of the vegetable kingdom derive their germinations from influx out of the spiritual world.

From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John

Dry-farmers try to provide against this danger by using an unusually large amount of seed, assuming that a certain amount will fail to come up because of the repeated partial germinations.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas

It is interesting to mark, as we can in history, first, the feeble germinations of a papal dogma; next, its waxing growth; and at last, after the lapse of centuries, its full development and maturity.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

This alone will stop the germinations of sin, and check wickedness in its conception.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron