A sect was founded who thought that surgery was the easiest way to enter the gates of Paradise, and they multiplied and Fructified.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
On the other hand, if the farmer ceases to profit of the laborer, and that his capital is not continually manured and Fructified, it is impossible that he should continue that abundant nutriment and clothing and lodging proper for the protection of the instruments he employs.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
A stranger listening to him would at first consider him well read, but would soon be undeceived, and would find that these ideas were acquired long ago; that he had never gone behind or below them, and that they had never Fructified in him, but were like hard stones, which he rattled in his pocket.
"The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford"
Mark Rutherford