Prolificness
524. Prolificness
- Abraham promised countless descendants by God. [O.T.: Genesis 13:16]
- Aegyptus fathered 50 sons, who married the daughters of his twin brother Danaus. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 11]
- Danaus fathered 50 daughters, who married the sons of his twin brother Aegyptus. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 11]
- Flanders, Moll adventuress bears a dozen children to various mates. [Br. Lit.: Moll Flanders in Magill I, 614]
- Lester, Jeeter and Ada hapless sharecroppers with seventeen children. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road ]
- old woman who lived in a shoe “had so many children she didn’t know what to do.” [Nursery Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 85]
- rabbit progenitor of many offspring at short intervals. [Zoology: Misc.]
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TYE-tuhnz
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Hesiod's Theogony
Lineage
The children of Uranus and Gaia
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