Returning the life-giving humus to the land.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He was a life-giving river flowing in a parched land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

The sunshine fell on them in a warm, life-giving flood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

But the fertilizing tears of Isis were life-giving in the wider sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

So the bee took some of the life-giving balm and hastened back to earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

The life-giving fresh air from the world above pressed into her copper helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

The reservoir up yonder is full to overflowing, with clear, sweet, life-giving water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

By breathing, we mean supplying the body with the life-giving oxygen contained in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Some theories hold that comets brought to Earth the water that formed the life-giving seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Show, By Jove] Reference

Or will it be by fire-the ballooning of the life-giving sun, consuming us in one fiery blast?.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SCIENCE OF DOOM] Reference

You can make your life-giving gift by visiting the GAVI Alliance or Save the Children websites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Orin Levine: Five Ways to Combat Pneumonia] Reference

The dragon was primarily a personification of the life-giving and life-destroying powers of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The tears, like all the body moisture, came to share the life-giving attributes of water in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

How shall we have power, abundant, life-giving, sweetening our own lives, and changing those we touch?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

Although the mountainside is still green, its life-giving mantle of clouds has been steadily shrinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest In The Clouds] Reference

Let this be your work, most noble professors, to promote the action of this helpful and life-giving force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference

Before some of us wither and fade, to what a pest-weed is our adipose changed for want of life-giving water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

For they were originally nothing more than personifications of the life-giving cowry amulets from the Red Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

When ripe the plant drew back its life-giving fluid from the fiber and it collapsed and twisted like a corkscrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

The placenta is credited with all the varieties of life-giving potency that are attributed to the Mother-Goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Every bit of food she gave me seemed to have some wonderful life-giving power in it and my health came back in bounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

And it is a sweet, pure air to breathe -- life-giving, and capable of making the heart glad for the very joy of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

But the sap of trees was brought into relationship with life-giving water and thus constituted another link with Osiris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Spring had really come at last with its warm, life-giving sunshine, and the air was heavy with the smell of growing things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

The Proto-Egyptians clearly believed in the validity of the general biological theory of the life-giving properties of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Through purposeful, committed investment, you and your family can enjoy rewarding, life-giving relationships with one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVESTRONG.COM: 6 Steps to Build a Healthy Family] Reference

Toward morning there came a quiet life-giving rain that freshened the parched earth and brought out the pungency of the pine trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

As an illustration of the identification of the cow's attributes with those of the life-giving Great Mother, I might refer to the late.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Whatever the scene that comes in mind, one fact there is -- underneath the dried and worthless hulls lies the living and life-giving grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

It was a grain-growing country, and when there was famine in other lands, there was always "corn in Egypt" -- thanks to the mighty life-giving Nile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The life-giving blood of the planet is in great disorder as a result of water pollution, and the planet's respiration is being choked by air pollution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them] Reference

The wife then anointed her sisters with a life-giving salve, and all three returned to their father's house, and afterward married three handsome princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

           The citizens of Pasque lived along the sea shore in curious cottages of various sizes, in order to be as close to their life-giving waters as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Begonia {part ten}] Reference