lyings-in

What becomes of them? what part dost thou perform, in the latter months of the pregnancy of thy only wife, and during her lyings-in and sexual maladies?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Lady G., it were not for these frequent lyings-in! —

Pamela 2006

Then, as quick as thought (for dreams, thou knowest confine not themselves to the rules of the drama) ensued recoveries, lyings-in, christenings, the smiling boy, amply, even in her own opinion, rewarding the suffering mother.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But scandals seldom occur, and the women, I am told, behave with great decency. 34 Abroad, they have the usual Moslem pleasures of marriage, lyings-in, circumcision feasts, holy isitations, and funerals.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Various French terms, enceinte and accouchement among them, were imported to conceal the fact that careless wives occasionally became pregnant and had lyings-in.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words Henry Louis 1921

No doubt if she had made a few of the well-known feminine concessions would have looked at least ten years younger than her age, for she had never had a day's illness: eight lyings-in were not, in her case, to be counted as exceptions.

Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

"Two hundred thousand persons, who, in such an epoch, have understood the wickedness of the struggle for life, the filth of sexual relations, the horror of lyings-in, those are they who save the honour of the country," he thought.

En Route 1877

He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season.

Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864