They would generate enough heat at the center to kill half their number and produce one bead of dew.
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
The broken branches the old man had been burning seemed to generate more smoke than heat, but any warmth was welcome on such a wild rainy night.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Many think that in some way they are able to generate an intense heat in a chamber of practically absolute non-conductivity.
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
"There are not many ways for a man like me to meet with a young girl that do not generate incorrect images in the media.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
For the whole contains nothing which is not for its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Oh, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men, as Angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
John Milton
Paradise Lost