childing
Example Sentences
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Why, I ate fruit a week after childing.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man laboring at his rhymes, The eye in the lambing shed.
From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis
Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man labouring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
La Tulita is the prettiest girl in Monterey now that the Señorita Ysabel Herrera lies beneath the rocks, and Benicia Ortega has died of her childing.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
But, said he, or it be long too she will bring forth by God His bounty and have joy of her childing for she hath waited marvellous long.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
