The emotion of fear and of hate is therefore sterile, unfertile. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
If so, then US has been an unfertile place for terrorism after 9/11. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorism, Part II - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Phyladelphia is an unfertile soil, or it would not produce so many unfruitfull women. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 December 1775] Reference
Diseases that could leave them unfertile later in life when they want to have a baby. From Wordnik.com. [Dueling Teen Pregnancy Tales: Jamie Lynn and Gloucester High - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The same logic can be used against unfertile couples, and those who use birth control. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » From Ted Haggard’s sermon last week,] Reference
Who actually did know things, knew how to coax life from unfertile fields and balky cows. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
These soils are rendered unfertile by the lack of this one all important factor of fertility. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
Van Wyk suggests that reduced competition on unfertile substrata allowed this relictual flora to persist. From Wordnik.com. [KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic] Reference
These babies are the result of using donor eggs through in-vitro fertilization, because my wife is unfertile. From Wordnik.com. [Huzzah for the Father’s Rights Movement!] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know what are the statistics of women becoming unfertile after taking birth control. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference
The soil of Switzerland is, in general, stony and unfertile, but the peasants spare no pains to render it productive. From Wordnik.com. [A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium] Reference
The unfertile fry is watery and keeps only a short time, as has been stated, for at last only head and eyes are left. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
The eggs were a splendid lot; not one of them unfertile. '. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
In the unfertile Bahamas, the price was £21; in Demarara, £86. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
It is very unfertile, except for scattered pockets here and there and deep ravines. From Wordnik.com. [Canada In CrisesAs Seen By An Australian] Reference
The environs of Ronda are barren and unfertile, the olive groves bear little fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference
Jallonkadoo (particularly about Boori), another hilly, but by no means an unfertile, country. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7] Reference
You knew you would need to change the unfertile conditions to ensure that these seeds could grow. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
Holland, whose securest portions are as unfertile as those which are fertile are threatened by the sea. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
It is the enclosure nearest to the cottage, and seems now to be a pasture, and a rather remarkably unfertile one. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
It is the enclosure, nearest to the cottage, and seems now to be a pasture, and a rather remarkably unfertile one. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
The youthful gallant, who had certain fears about watering this fair, unfertile plain, was reassured by this speech. From Wordnik.com. [Droll Stories — Volume 3] Reference
They knew that these waste lands, seemingly so unfertile, would become most fruitful as soon as water was turned on them. From Wordnik.com. [Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition] Reference
His tireless efforts to help unfertile women become mothers eventually causes one eager mother to give birth to octuplets. From Wordnik.com. [TV Squad] Reference
So accurate was her instinct that she detected the unfertile eggs in a sitting, and foretold the number of a litter of rabbits. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
And no word of kindly interest or criticism dropped in the public ear from friendly lips goes unregarded or is unfertile of good. From Wordnik.com. [The Drama] Reference
But it might be noted that Keynes began his career as economic theoretician with a rebuke of 'unfertile habits' in the English colonies. From Wordnik.com. [Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET] Reference
Meanwhile Stumps went back to the hotel to brood over his misfortunes, and hatch out the plan which his rather unfertile brain had devised. From Wordnik.com. [The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables] Reference
(particularly about Boori), another hilly, but by no means an unfertile, country. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02] Reference
'Tis one dull chaos, one unfertile strife. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
For fortune placed me in unfertile ground. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
For fortune placed me in unfertile ground. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
It was for the most part stony and unfertile. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
Fortunately, I am not unfertile in expedients. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06] Reference
Thank Heaven, that formed me of unfertile mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
Even unfertile land. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
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