accouchement

• The tidings of your happy accouchement were brought to me yesterday by M. de Villeneuve. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
• It is too simple to need translating from the author's own French:[9 La fausse honte qu'out les femmes de laisser voir leur grossesse et tout ce qui a rapport ŕ l'accouchement, les plaisanteries dont on use souvent ŕ l'égard des femmes enceintes, sont un triste signe de la dégénérescence et męme de la corruption de notre civilization raffinée. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
• Her accouchement is over, apparently without more than exhaustion; but of that you will be the judge The mention of the carriage and the accident recalled to Dr. Beaton his hasty vision of the prince, but, before he could collect his confused thoughts, he was led through a splendid suite of apartments to a small ante-room, decorated with several portraits, among which he instantly recognised one of the Duke of Perth and another of King James VIII. —  Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
• From her determination to keep her marriage secret, she retired for her accouchement to a secluded spot in Chelsea, where her child was born, and where it soon after died It may easily be supposed, that the sudden disappearance of so conspicuous a person from the most conspicuous society, must have given rise to rumours and ridicule of every kind. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
• He had thought it advisable to provoke speedy contraction, and, following the Algerian custom to scare the baby out, he had fired the musket near his wife's ear; instantanously the accouchement was terminated. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885

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