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The outstanding picture in the bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000."

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite his unprolific face, Torm� will probably make about $250,000 next year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Biographer Frank McShane, Professor of creative writing at Columbia University, offers sheaves of contradictions from Raymond Chandler's long but unprolific career.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our modern taste—alas!—no limit knows; O'er hill, o'er dale, through wood and field it flows; Spreading o'er all its unprolific spawn, In never-ending sheets of vapid lawn.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Mr. Doubleday maintains that, as people become better fed, they become unprolific.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart