childing

Example Sentences

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I have heard of retreating armies stopping and hazarding battle, rather than forsake a childing woman in her extremity, in countries not boasting of so enlightened a government as our own.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

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

Why, I ate fruit a week after childing.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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

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