| 1. | "Methought the germ of it was dead in m. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | 'That is the germ of my great discovery. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | Thou seething principle thou well-kept, latent germ thou centr. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Had some strange poisonous germ crept from body to body till it had reached his ow. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil but since that moment it has all been a dark necessity. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 6. | It is time for man to plant the germ of his highest hope. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | They are partly facetious, but also contain a germ of truth. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | of the young child or promising adult, cut off in the germ o. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 9. | Providence, in the person of this little girl, had assigned to Hester's charge, the germ and blossom of womanhood, to be cherished and developed amid a host of difficulties. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 10. | The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 11. | Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 13. | These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 14. | My duty will be to develop these germs surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 15. | them the germs of something like a personal narrative. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 16. | These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things--taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 17. | Each breath the children take in such a house is full of the germs of evil. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 18. | And I could not rid myself of it by any legal proceedings for the doctors now discovered that _my wife_ was mad--her excesses had prematurely developed the germs of insanity. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |