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From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

Fifty sows with farrows were penned in each, bedded upon the earth, while the boars lay outside—fewer by far, as those well-fatted were for the suitors’ table, fine pork, sent by the swineherd every day.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The sow farrows pigs, They go to the spit of the lord.

From Castle Rackrent by Edgeworth, Maria

This was the wretch whom Faustus saw; and his heart rejoiced when he contemplated the paleness of his cheeks, and the farrows which anguish and despair had made in his brow. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

Their trunks at the base measured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules