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It is believed to have peculiar virtues, and is popularly supposed by its mere presence in a house to mitigate the pains of maternity.
Annie was absolutely and gloriously well through the whole of those mysterious first months of maternity which are to so many women exhausting and painful.
None of our plays rouse the sympathy of the audience by an exhibition of the pains of maternity, as Chinese plays constantly do.
It is folly to talk of the sacredness of marriage and maternity, while the wife is practically regarded as an inferior, a subject, a slave.
He asked a young matron whose lithe beauty had won his admiration a year ago, but to whom maternity had been too generous.
She had a fine oval face, clear, pallid skin, and regular though not perfect features, and never appeared so interesting or beautiful as now, in the joy and pride of her new maternity.
A round-up at that time meant the separation of mothers from their offspring and injury to cows approaching maternity, and I decided that no commercial necessity demanded the sacrifice.
Most women at her age would have been sagging a bit, the cords of youth slackened by the weight of maternity or the continual pull against ill health and genteel poverty.
Motherhood will be deemed the choicest of earth's blessings; women will rejoice in a glad maternity and for any self-denial will be compensated by healthy, happy, buoyant, grateful children.
Paternity is but a mere incident, it was argued, in man's life: why should maternity be more than a mere incident in woman's life?
And as she sat in the garden with Bran at her feet, in the solitude which foreshadowed the more poignant solitude to come, she said to herself with passionate maternity: 'I shall watch over them.
It was a week or two later, and I was coming home between two and three in the morning from a maternity case, certain features of which for the time being had very much taken possession of my mind, so much so, indeed, that I passed Smith's door without giving him a single thought.
She was snatched away in the bright morning of her existence with the rapturous feelings of maternity just budding into life.
One day the Probationer found a new baby in the children's ward; and, with the passion of maternity that is the real reason for every good woman's being, she cuddled the mite in her arms.
She was childless and alone, lavishing her aborted maternity on a brother who was living his prosperous, cheerful and not too moral life at her expense.
Women are less than ever impressed with the sacredness and nobility of maternity, and look upon it more and more as a period of martyrdom.
The cocks come forth and crow about four; the hens proclaim to a drowsy world that they have fulfilled the duties of maternity.
The elderly woman whose sternness of view had been tempered by neither maternity nor breadth of experience shook her head.
When she became pregnant, and it was known, the most particular people and the greatest sticklers opened their doors to her, as if she had been definitely purified by maternity.
My uniform got me past the gendarmes in through a little court, up a pair of stairs where the shell had penetrated the walls of a maternity hospital.
Whaley as to draw upon the Judge anonymous letters notifying him that he was too indifferent, to which letters he gave no attention, only bestowing the more confidence and freedom upon her, when, happily, as it was thought, the wife showed signs of maternity.
One of this class, who was glad to have escaped the chains of matrimony, but knew the value and lamented the loss of maternity, wished she had been born a widow with two children.
The more differentiated and largely supplied nervous structure, connected with the offices of maternity, detracts so much from the amount of force furnished for the muscles and the will.
Her superior mind refused to make the abdication by which a married woman begins that life; she keenly felt the value of independence, and was conscious of disgust for the duties of maternity.
While it is just to admit that every physician is capable of successfully conducting maternity cases, there are certain characteristics in the individual temperament that would seem to indicate that some physicians are better adapted to this special work.
The function of the kidneys, bowels, bladder, and respiration may be more or less interfered with, and it may be desirable to use a properly constructed abdominal support, or maternity corset.
The correct support will prevent these troublesome annoyances; a properly constructed maternity corset is often quite effective.
In him paternity and maternity met, which is a conjunction we have not given heed to as we ought in thinking on the heart.
For the present let it suffice that before entering public life he had earned our confidence as an apothecary, and especially by his skill and delicacy in maternity cases.
We applaud the "cares and duties of the mother, her travail and her love"; but the more assiduous her maternity, and the more admirable, the more certainly will she require to be fed.
No writer in his senses will then be guilty of such immeasurable folly as to place the "natural industries of a human creature" in antithesis to "the primal physical functions of maternity."
"Statistics show that the percentage of mortality from these things is considerably less than from mumps, and not to be compared with riding in an elevator or with the perils of maternity."
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.
The best precautionary measure is for the woman to wear a well-fitting abdominal belt or maternity corset, which supports the womb and does not permit it to sink too low into the pelvis.
The corset and high-heeled shoes, the two most deadly foes to maternity and posterity, are also seen at the present time, on every hand.
I have spoken of the importance of thorough healthful training of body and mind in view of the natural conditions of marriage and maternity, which may be the lot of every woman.
Not one even suggests that paternity and maternity were in such cases to be understood literally and, so to speak, physically.
We have too many young ladies to-day who despise maternity, who openly vow that they will never be burdened with children, and yet enter matrimony at the first opportunity.
Although women shrink from forced maternity, and from the bearing of children under the great burden of suffering, as well as other adverse conditions, it is rare to find a woman who is not greatly disappointed if she does not, some time in her life, wear the crown of motherhood.
She hugged, with an almost voluptuous movement of passion, that half-rejected burden of maternity, gathering it close against her heart once more.
It is a fact that more sacrifice is involved in maternity among the more highly cultivated nations of the human race than is true of aboriginal peoples, or among the lower animals.
When we consider the real significance of maternity to the race, to society, and to the family, we must feel that, of all human relations, maternity is the most sacred, and that no condition should be allowed to mar it, and no consideration to take precedence of it.
Just then some bird, brooding over her three eggs in her nest, stirred drowsily and cooed softly at some delicious dream of love or maternity.
Has she the time and the means to build up her reserve energy and strength to competently undertake the duties of maternity or motherhood?
It would seem as though suffering to some degree, characterized each epoch in a woman's life; menstruation, marriage and maternity.
They were questions supposed to refer to the conditions of maternity; but the point is here that the reformers did not begin by building up those economic or material conditions.
She had suffered the perils and pangs of maternity, and yet had only the mere animal yearning for her offspring, while he had taken over the toil and duty, and even the devotion, of parentage himself.
If one watches the woman with one child and all maternity finished before thirty, and compare her at forty with the woman of the same age who has had, say, four children at proper intervals, who usually has the advantage in preservation of youth and beauty?
Even where there is no lack of money, the unavoidable restraints of the condition, for at least some months in the year, more than counterbalance any sentimental delight to be found in maternity.
What is that look of paternity and of maternity which observing and experienced mothers and old nurses know so well in men and in women?
Her approaching maternity rendered her graver in manner, and even a little melancholy, as if she were tortured by anxieties.
When we add to what woman ought to be for her own sake, this other fact, that woman, by reason of her maternity, must exert a most potent influence over the generations yet to be, there is no language that can speak the magnitude or importance of the subject that has called us together.
Moreover, her approaching maternity appealed to the chivalry in his nature, making him ashamed that he had ever thought to leave her.
In sparsely settled regions the solution of this problem seems to demand the provision of local maternity hospitals, for the difficulty is primarily one of isolation.
Maternity neutralizes her moral and physical inferiority, pity extinguishes cruelty, and maternal love counteracts sexual indifference.
Admitting that it is not because of lack of love, either maternal or conjugal, that women are shirking marriage and maternity, we may then ask: "What is the cause?"
In the young girl love is a mixture of exalted admiration for masculine courage and grandeur, and an ardent desire for affection and maternity.
Did one begin to fear that the decay of maternity and paternity in our older communities and the falling off in the native population presaged the drying up of the race in its very sources?
Fear, rage, and agony, at their utmost pitch, sweep away all character: humanity itself would be lost in maternity, the woman would become the mere personification of animal fury or fear.
She had scarcely time to realize what youth meant and begin to enjoy it before her girlhood was stifled under the responsibilities of marriage and maternity.
Maternity had not altered a line of her girlish figure, neither had it crowned her with the rounded, satisfying glory of womanhood.
On the other hand, mental and moral heredity, both through paternity and maternity, determines the character and innermost being of woman.
I understand that among the important duties which the students perform are those of dressers, clinical clerks, maternity pupils, and other assistants, and from their number the resident officers are selected after having become qualified practitioners.
Paternity being a matter of speculation, maternity of actual observation, it is supposed to follow that descent by females was always recognized.
And now, when the woman saw the strong man in a palsy at her feet, her love for him vanquished even the all-powerful instinct of maternity.
Time was getting on, it was the dull month of February, and the burden of maternity seemed to be much nearer than the responsibilities of matrimony.
The accusing figure of her mother was changed into a smiling face of pleased and satisfied maternity: reproaches were turned into words of endearment, angry looks to presents and caresses.
The detailed answer is obtained by experiment, which perfectly explains this "odious feast," the excuse for which is simply maternity.
He began a painstaking survey of the hedge bottom and was rewarded by the discovery of a nest of six hidden away by a hen anxious to undertake the cares of maternity.
If, however, during these states, suitable precautions and preservative cares be not employed, it is the first class who most suffer from traces of maternity.
Will the modern woman seek social pleasures and the flattery of passing admiration in lieu of home life and maternity, and be satisfied to flutter as a gaudy butterfly of fashion?
She is old enough to be a wife; but the light airy form and virginal grace proclaim her still inexperienced in marriage, as in the cares of maternity.
I never thought I could get this big; having to wear maternity clothes and such... but then, I never thought a lot of things.
Vincent's besides two more years in hospital work, and yet I was not allowed to learn this very important branch of nursing, regardless of the fact that I had the maternity ward on my floor all the time I was superintendent, and was held responsible for any errors in the nursing of these cases.
The moment women step out from the sanctuary of their homes, the glamour that girlhood or maternity has thrown around them cast aside, that moment will they cease to rule mankind.
It speedily became apparent to others besides that experienced woman that maternity was Rachel's vocation, and, when she found it, it seemed that she had found a consolation, if not an actual compensation, at last for the great want and sorrow of her woman's life.
She adored her mistress with a precocious maternity but, paradoxically enough, without any of the mother's jealousy of a lover near to his possession.
We hadn't then arrived at the realization that the well or ill going of maternity is a matter of skeptics rather than sentiment.
It was the most and the best I was to know of the incident called maternity, that whether it were most bitter or most sweet it was irrevocable.
Across his pictures there moves no gracious shadow of the beneficent Virgin, sharing with humanity the joys and sorrows of maternity.
And though she fulfilled her self-imposed penance, remaining until dawn, despite years and infirmities, with forehead resting on the stones, maternity struggled with asceticism.
Owing to modern methods of treatment and hygienic developments the maternity hospital never occupied a stronger position than it does to-day.
In the old days she would never have dreamed of asking anyone to dinner; but her vicarious maternity gave her as much importance as if she had really borne a child at the age of fifty-two.
Perhaps it was the first faint intimations of maternity demanding expression that led these two queens of the chorus to hint so graciously to Dorothy at the inheritance they designed for her.
The thrill that every woman, however much she may dread or resent it, feels at the first prospect of maternity was for Dorothy heightened beyond any comparison that would not be blasphemous.
How her eager heart would outrun the slow months, as she threw herself forward in anticipation among the joys of maternity, a motherhood so exalted!
As love and maternity had absorbed her mother's art, so in a smaller degree the same things had encroached upon Val's gift.
She conceived the devilish plan of striking another blow at Mary, while she was in the sensitive condition of approaching maternity.
Cecil's own lap; who minded nothing of the soiled little garments but held the child close with a pitying maternity, pathetic in so old and childless a woman.
A feeling for maternity is indeed always characteristic of Leonardo; and this feeling is further indicated here by the half-humorous pathos of the diminutive, rounded shoulders of the child.
Grant Allen says: "To prepare ourselves for the duties of maternity and paternity by making ourselves as vigorous and healthful as we can be, is a duty we owe to children unborn."
She also wants to enjoy herself, and the pure, simple joys of maternity, which we used to think ought to be sufficient for a woman, have in many cases become irksome.
The child has neither the totem of his father nor that of his mother, but the one whose center is at the spot where the mother believes that she felt the first symptoms of approaching maternity.
Even where there is no lack of money, the unavoidable restraints of the condition, for at least some months, more than counterbalance any sentimental delight to be found in maternity.
Their babies are all the world to them, and they do not think maternity an infliction, as so many of the miserably fashionable think it.
When the men give up the practice of marrying mere children, who become rapidly worn out by the fatigues of precocious maternity, polygamy will cease to exist.
These finely equipped institutions serve Cedar Rapids, Marion, the railroad systems and their contributing territory with facilities for the best of medical, surgical and maternity work.
Who would not believe herself able to accomplish in safety, behind the generous rampart of this devoted champion, the delicate mystery of maternity?
Carelessly did she live in her bright leafy bower, exposed to every enemy; but the moment she was no longer alone, the hoped for and anticipated maternity made her an artist.
All the responsibilities of maternity were thrust upon me suddenly; to perfect the profession of motherhood requires precisely as many years as the child has lived, like the man who started to carry the calf and ended by walking along with the bull on his shoulders.