unprolific

The extremely unprolific but masterful writer's collection.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Stories Of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang Blue Tyson 2008

He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor.

A Lover Of The Long Shot 2008

The extremely unprolific but masterful writer's collection.

Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

All birds of prey, or birds with crooked talons, are unprolific, except the kestrel: this bird is the most prolific of birds of prey; as many as four eggs have been observed in the nest, and occasionally it lays even more.

The History of Animals 2002

Of late our costume-romancers have become strangely unprolific.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 Various

There the house was with the nine windows, the unprolific vine.

Howards End 1924

There the house was -- the nine windows, the unprolific vine.

Howards End Forster, E. M. 1910

Pointing out the difference between what is beautiful and what misses beauty to a Frau Inspector of forty, whose chief business it is to make butter, is likely to be singularly unprolific of good results; and, further, experience has taught me that whenever anything is on the tip of my tongue the best thing to do is to keep it there.

The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Beluch are the most unprolific people on earth, which I believe is not the case.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Speculation as to its existence is as unprolific of results as any we may indulge in regarding the nature, object, or uses of that other evolutionary appendage, the appendix vermiformis, the recollection of whose existence always adds an extra flavor to tomatoes, figs, or any other small-seeded fruits.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886