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You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2013

Of course an itch to lay hands on the theatre was begetting restlessness in the American bosom considerably prior to April 6, 1917.

From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.

I was a father and a begetter of children, and oh, oh horror, I was begetting and conceiving in my own body.

From Look! We Have Come Through! by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

And how I despised the monotony and lowness of the Martian life; how I loathed the spreading misery of the famine, and the vile and dreadful pestilences which it was begetting!

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth