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1 These beans are supposed to contain the germ of Truth.
2 Some of these little pieces contain the germ , or vision, of a longer poem.
3 The bazaar stories not only indicate the state of native opinion, but not infrequently contain the germ of truth.
4 The elegy and iambus contain the germ of the lyric style, though they do not themselves come under that head.
5 Remember that, with all these corn products, if they are stone-ground and contain the germ and bran, they are highly perishable.
6 Milk from an infected mare may also contain the germ , and colts may become infected by sucking the milk of infected mothers.
7 The sowing contains the germ of all the harvests to be reaped.
8 In other words, race fecundity contains the germs of intellectual and national existence.
9 The delusion passed away-ithad contained the germ of better things.
10 That last sentence contained the germ of Mrs. Gibson's present grievance.
11 But if the condition of France was bad it contained the germs of improvement.
12 But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.
13 That idea contains the germ of the Clazomenaean philosopher's conception of the nature of matter.
14 These two colonies contained the germ of the future "United States of America."
15 Real colonies, containing the germ of a nation, could not be based on such foundations.
16 Adam's sexual glands were thought to have contained the germs of the whole of humanity.
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