Sentence Examples:
There are some who deny its existence, and assert that maternity is forced upon every woman.
In her estimation maternity poisoned love, aged woman, and made a horror of her in the eyes of man.
Now she saw Dwight's cruelty to her as his cruelty to Di; she saw Ina, herself a child in maternity, as ignorant of how to deal with the moment as was Dwight.
First it was sought to throw doubt upon Bianca's actual maternity, and next to secure the person of the little boy.
The Night, for whom no symbolism of maternity was needed, is a woman who has passed through many pregnancies.
A steadily increasing proportion of people were living outside the old family home, the home based on maternity and offspring, altogether.
In this low valley all corn except maize had been gathered in, and Nature was resting, after her labor, with the smile of maternity on her face.
Maternity and the concomitants of maternity are the circumstances in their lives, exhausting energy and earning nothing, that place them at a discount.
On the following trip, Dona Cristina obliged her to remain at home, fearing that the excitement and the crowds at the harbor might affect her approaching maternity.
Behind these, proudly erect, was his virtuous and prolific companion, aged by too continuous maternity.
They criticize the shabby shawl; they sneer at the slow step which is the inevitable result of hard work, the cares of maternity, and of age.
She had the ways of some happy household animal, its quick rushes of affection, and its gaze, the long, spiritual gaze of its maternity, mysterious and appealing.
Charles Gordon Concerning Maternity I have tried to imagine myself in your place, as you requested, before answering your letter.
Daily labor makes her lose all her freshness and strength, and maternity in the midst of poverty absorbs even the marrow in her bones.
She turned her eager, weary face toward Kate, and her friend marked the delicacy in it which comes with maternity.
Coming now to examples of reasoning by analogy directly expressive of the desire for maternity, I wish to make still more plain my view of the reason for symbolism.
He wronged their mother by imposing upon her the burdens and cares of maternity without the rights and privileges of a wife.
You will keep the sort of order by which nothing is forgotten, you will practice patience which is as long as life, and maternity which is as heavy as the world.
For instance, you have said that the fact of virginity excludes the possibility of maternity.
One Monday morning, maternity awakes to hear children weeping for bread, must forth into the streets.
If I should attempt to explain to some men what I feel when I contemplate the miracle of maternity, they would smile and turn it all into an unspeakable jest.
I never saw such a picture, and it struck me suddenly I should like to paint it, just as it was there, and call the thing "Maternity."
Yet such was her admirable and impartial maternity that she never made any difference between them.
"Women, as such," says an able writer, "are constituted for purposes of maternity and the continuation of mankind."
This dawn of luxury brought us a butcher and a grocer, and a midwife, who became very necessary to me, for I lost a great deal of time over maternity cases.
Even in the modern novels written by the 'new woman' the longing for maternity, always an honorable sentiment, is dragged in to veil the so-called 'lower' desire.
A woman whose passions are satisfied generally has her strength sapped by maternity, while her attention is drawn from abstract ideas to her children.
Of Maurice Sand, gifted son of an inspired mother, there is an exquisite chapter of literary criticism tempered with maternity.
The mothers of the country are in touch everywhere with maternity clinics, where doctors advise them on all questions of health relating to pregnancy, and treat each woman as a separate individual.
On June 12, he writes that Lady Byron is more than three months advanced in her progress towards maternity; and that they have been out very little, as he wishes to keep her quiet.
He kissed her brow, on the spot where her latent maternity had already set a slight shadow.
And one Saturday evening at the house, while dining with Roger and Deborah, he told of an offer he had had from a wealthy banker's widow to build a maternity hospital.
A most natural masculine instinct for feminine interpretive companionship when face to face with the miracle of maternity.
These women also work in the plantation when they are not concerned with the business of maternity, which judging by the number of children about, must be very seldom.
If our physicians desire more maternity cases, they must make more work for the undertaker.
For if, as is affirmed, no education can be good which does not bear upon future duties, how can that be wise which keeps love and its temptations, maternity and its responsibilities, out of view?
My elder brother appeared to absorb the trifling sentiment of maternity which was in her nature.
It is maternity that in the marriage estate justifies a man in abandoning his freedom and a woman her shame.
He was too absorbed to notice the new maturity in her face, the brooding maternity born of a profound passion.
Nina was married and out of the home, but there loomed before them the possibility of maternity and its dangers for her.
Now Ann believes firmly in the holiness of maternity, but she flatly refuses to take upon herself the responsibility of an unwelcome tie.
After witnessing the failure of the hopes she had set upon her idol, she had too much real maternity in her feeling for him to let herself be mistaken as to his social value.
Moreover, there is ample evidence to indicate that even among the most primitive peoples the function of maternity was recognized as of primary and central importance to the community.
The new government program would facilitate the function of maternity among the very classes in which the absolute necessity is to discourage it.
She was now so far advanced on the road to maternity that to look for a position was out of the question.
The first duty of maternity, and one of its purest joys, is to sustain the newborn life at the mother's breast.
No, but I will no longer be the victim of the hateful penalty of maternity, which you have inflicted on me for eleven years!
She was young and handsome though the shadow of maternity was blue-stenciled under her eyes.
He had a great pitiful imagination for this unknown woe of maternity, which possibly gave him as great a power of sympathy as actual knowledge.
At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague.
Single-handed she developed a maternity indoor and district service, training her nurses herself in anticipation of the extension of the Midwives Act to Scotland.
From this point of view it is of great value to women students, affording them opportunities of study denied to them in other maternity hospitals.
There are some women to whom life is incidental and maternity the most casual adventure of all.
We talk so much about her maternity that we are apt to overlook the fact that a responsible Father is as necessary to the good name of a well-ordered college as to that of a well-regulated household.
She admired Helen Muir greatly and was also much touched by certain aspects of her maternity.
She was patient, she was gentle, and she continued to live on, hoping always for the happiness of maternity.
The Madonna of the Chair emphasizes most prominently, perhaps, the physical instincts of maternity.
Nothing can give a better idea of the medicine rites on such an occasion, and of the use of sacred pollen, than a description of a maternity belt procured by the writer and here illustrated.
Any doctor who has handled many maternity cases can call to mind instances where every condition was present to perfection, for the production of maternal impression, on the time-honored lines.
The maternity nurse, on the other hand, has not had an adequate training and is absolutely helpless, so far as medical knowledge is concerned, in a real emergency.
The maternity nurse follows a routine which she is incapable of modifying to suit the particular case.
While the trained nurse strictly attends exclusively to the mother and the baby, a maternity nurse as a rule attends to the household duties in addition.
The duties of a maternity nurse can be specified and agreed upon, and the terms arranged when she is engaged.
Every physician acquires certain individual methods in the conduct of maternity cases, which experience has taught him to be successful.
She passes through the crisis of maternity, however, and spends the customary ten days in bed.
She was not taught the true meaning of motherhood before actual maternity was thrust upon her.
She felt a vague stirring of what married love at its best must be for a woman, its strange complex of passion and maternity.
Her eyes were soft and dark, and her pale face, sad and sweet, was instinct with the tenderness of her coming maternity.
Her terror and shame gave way at last, and she allowed herself to dream of the mystical joy of maternity.
It would certainly seem that excessive development of the muscular system is unfavorable to maternity.
The primal physical functions of maternity are the natural industries of the particular human creature we call a mother; and the better she fulfills them, the better she fulfills them, certainly.
As before remarked, the function of maternity, which is the object of the sexual system in woman, when rightly exercised is the most sacred and elevated office which a woman can perform for the world.
In not a few instances it is discovered that the individual is wholly unfitted for the duties of maternity.
Often, indeed, maternity is impossible, the injury resulting from the sins committed being so great as to render the diseased organism incapable of the functions required.
The mother's name is chosen in preference to that of the father, as there can be no doubt as to the maternity of the child.
For thousands of years maternity has been women's exclusive profession and no doubt will continue to be many ages hence.
The long lines, so admirable for maternity wear are portrayed in this handsome afternoon costume.
And now she had been left as a widowed wife, with all the coming troubles of maternity on her head.
On the one hand, the reckless multiplication of children will probably be checked; on the other hand, a large body of women will no longer be shut out from maternity.
The girl is one of those rare, feminine creatures whose soul and body are framed for maternity.
It was then that I comprehended the true maternity beyond what I had done before; for those of the latter kind were given me as children, of whom some were faithful.
Without knowing much of the bitter anguish of the ordeal, I held maternity to be (as the great poets had taught me to hold it) a noble heroism.
When Joseph greeted his promised bride after her three months' absence, he was greatly distressed over the indications of her prospective maternity.
The tender maternity of the bird which has its nest among its leaves stirs no responsive sympathy.
Be Frank and True to your husbands on the subject of maternity, and the relation that leads to it.
True, she was a maternity nurse, and this was hardly the qualification needed for the nursing of soldiers.
When they were all at supper, she said: "Madame, I applied for a post of maternity nurse, to the Borough of Lancaster."
My grandmother had the instinct of caressing maternity for all the young, the forlorn, the helpless.
The personnel turnover in that little group was on a par with the turnover of patients in a maternity ward, at least as far as genuine scientists were concerned.
Nature evidently intended that the duties of maternity should be assumed between the twenty and twenty-fourth year.
We will not consider those causes which have their beginning in wrong methods of dress or conduct during the years prior to maternity.
When this was done, she was forced to leave her home and taken to a maternity hospital which the army had established for other girls and women of the town in the same condition.
All her organs are tender, yielding, easily wounded, sensible, and receptive; they are made for maternity and affection.
Maternity was sacred; being a wife on the other hand was "forever climbing up the climbing wave," there was nothing final about it as there was in being able to say, "I am the mother of your child!"
She now began to soften and to cry, and I observed that maternity was in her as well as cheap gin.
They receive instruction in maternity hospitals, with special reference to the unmarried mother.
Clearly, any comparison between different maternity services should be made on the basis of these latter figures alone.
A general extension of the maternity allowance under any national health scheme would afford some immediate financial assistance.
Certain general criticisms of the maternity services are elsewhere discussed, and certain recommendations are made.
For these we should also advocate the extension of the maternity allowance and such further direct financial encouragement of the family as can be devised.