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  • Her accouchment was preceded by great suffering, and her strength seemed totally exhausted.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • As the period of my accouchment approached, I sometimes thought that I should not survive it; and then the recollection of the dreadful crimes

    Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832

  • Beyond this are two more sick-rooms, in one of which those nuns stay who are waiting their accouchment, and in the other, those who have passed it.

    Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832

  • Its privileges were esteemed so valuable that many mothers from the adjacent provinces removed thither about the time of their accouchment, in order to entitle their children to participate, by birth, in all the immunities of that favored country; just as, says Strada, one improves the plants of a rude climate by removing them to the soil of a milder.

    History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Its privileges were esteemed so valuable that many mothers from the adjacent provinces removed thither about the time of their accouchment, in order to entitle their children to participate, by birth, in all the immunities of that favored country; just as, says Strada, one improves the plants of a rude climate by removing them to the soil of a milder.

    History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Its privileges were esteemed so valuable that many mothers from the adjacent provinces removed thither about the time of their accouchment, in order to entitle their children to participate, by birth, in all the immunities of that favored country; just as, says Strada, one improves the plants of a rude climate by removing them to the soil of a milder.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

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