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  • He had to admit that it was futile to ponder whether the barren and the fallow might be preferable to this annexation of space by a rather non-germinal seed of love that had been planted within him against his will.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • He sensed that such a scenario would have been a liberation from the revolting non-germinal seed of love, and that liberation from it would be a license to use as he had been used in the sadomasochistic quid pro quo or bartering for pleasures that defined human interaction.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • He was not exactly sure why, at the moment of contemplating this rather non-germinal seed of love that was there clogging space within his manhood, that this unpleasant recollection of his attraction to the Laotian suddenly interposed between the concept and the peaceful equilibrium that he supposed that he sought -- an equilibrium that he supposed everyone sought when not bored with the tranquil and the blase.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • From non-germinal love hadn't the thought been of that stranger, his father, and then from the father had it not been of the stranger from Laos?

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • Those eyes were surely not just portals to a rather non-germinal seed of love within him; but even if they were such, and his love of women was little short of a vaginal sport (to the immature dabbler that he was who failed to be a he-man and a happy hedonist), still there was more love therein than a failed marriage could prove.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • [81] Probably the word now covers a congeries of defects, some of which may be non-germinal.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

  • The study will examine previously untreated patients with a genomically defined subtype of lymphoma called non-germinal center B-cell-like (non-GCB) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

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