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Meanings of first germ in English

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Usage of first germ in English
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Nay, in this case the first germ of injustice was your own mistake.
My Lady Ludlow
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This conversation was the first germ of my project of coming to California.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sk...
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At this very moment there is announced the first germ of the new civilization.
The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales
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How was the world rendered fit for the habitation of the first germ of Life?
God the Known and God the Unknown
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This was the first germ of Hetty's unhappiness.
Hetty's Strange History
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The first germ was in the notion that in Musgrave's picture lay the key to the mystery.
The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Chris...
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Nor can you know that the first germ resembled a Protococcus or any other now living form.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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Whence, then, came the first germ?
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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How could the chemical actions of dead matter infuse vitality into the first germ, or bud of a plant?
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith / Being an Examination o...
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If animals were first developed from this first germ, what did they live on while there was no vegetation?
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
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Or, did vegetation only, grow from this first germ for ages, and then some of it turn into species of animals?
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
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When any man dies, his soul divides in death; as in life, in the first germ, it was united from two germs.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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She gave us a shy side-glance like those that had carried the first germ of disquiet into my soul, and moved away
The Rise of David Levinsky
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He crossed the Atlantic to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, with those who planted the first germ of the colony of Maryland.
The First White Man of the West / Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'...
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She could not know that the vivandiere's assistant on the highway, with her abandoned child, had cast the first germ into Barbara's mind.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 08
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So simple is the first germ of that longing after posthumous honour, which presents us with so memorable effects in the page of history.
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
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