All this is reasonable and enlightened law; founded, like all good legislation, upon clear and satisfactory principles, and well calculated to elevate the tone of the public feeling, to be not only so many specific enactments, but also the Germinant seeds of good.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But the sun had chased him away from the open places and had beckoned lovingly to the grass and the Germinant life beneath to come boldly forth, for the enemy was gone.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Huic coeli lilia Germinant; Arrisus sponsi permanent; Ac nomen in fidelibus Quam filiorum medius.
"The Saint's Tragedy"
Charles Kingsley