There, where she had first drawn breath, she died in childbed on the 28th of November. |
In 1818, she was in the pains of childbed when she heard discharges of artillery. |
The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed. |
When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her. |
He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed. |
For many, service to Christ constituted the only creditable alternative to matrimony and childbed. |