When Leto was about to give birth to her twin children and no land would receive her, the little rock of Delos pitied her and gave her a resting-place.
For hard things borne from birth Make iron of man's heart, and hurt the less.
Long hath stood Thy vow, to pay to Her that bringeth light Whatever birth most fair by day or night The year should bring.
She had taught him even to pray for the welfare of that brother who from his very birth had unwittingly been the boy's persecutor.
He had no right even to come into the world; by his very birthhe utterly destroyed both you and me.
It was, indeed, mainly this boy's birth which had caused the catastrophe.
But surely the caterpillar and the cockchafer have an equal right to demand, "To what purpose has Earth given birth to that misshapen, two-legged creature that delights to sweep me down from my tree, and trample me under foot?
You, my son, as had been foretold, I afterwards brought into the world, and in little more than four years after your birth your lamented father expired in my arms.
Sir Martin survived the birthof his son little more than four years.
The new birth did never enter my mind, neither knew I the deceitfulness and treachery of my own wicked heart.
We have to construct this pilgrim's birth and boyhood and youth from his after-character and conversation; and we have no difficulty at all in doing that.
In the second place,--on this fine old pilgrim's birth and boyhood and youth.
The renewal of our first birth and state is something entirely distinct from our first sudden conversion and call to repentance.
For, according to these verses, the first of the three catastrophes which preceded the birth of the Messiah, proceeds from a new phase of the world's power, viz.
After Elijah, at the time of the birth of the Messiah, had visited his mother in Bethlehem Judah, and consoled her who was afflicted on account of the destruction of the temple, which was contemporaneous with her delivery, he withdraws.
The Jewish assertion, that in the prophecy there is no allusion to the birth at Bethlehem of Him who was to come, could not fail to be repeated by Grotius and his supporters, inasmuch as Zerubbabel was not born at Bethlehem.
The circumstance that the prophet mentions the birth of children at all, and the birth of three only, is accounted for by their names.
First, there was the desire of depriving the Christians of the proof, which they derived from the birthat Bethlehem, for the proposition that He who had appeared was also He who was promised.
On the contrary, in all the passages which come into consideration on this point, it is rather the pain accompanying the birth which is considered.
Herod, by birth a foreigner, was, like Nebuchadnezzar, a rod of correction in the hand of the Lord.
The line of demarcation is formed by the birth of the Messiah, according to v.
Nurse Kennedy can best tell thee how the jealous eyes and ears were disconcerted, and in secrecy and sorrow that birth took place.
At this Richard smiled and shook his head, pointing out that the very last thing any of them desired was that Cicely's birth should be known; and that even if it were, her mother's marriage was very questionable.
Ye'll no persuade me that they are birth marks," returned Mistress Jean.
He has done much for me under many disguises, and at the time of thy birth he lived as a merchant at Hull, trading with Scotland.
You are one of us," said Antony; "bound by natural allegiance in the land of your birthto this lady.
For many years I knew not who the babe was whom I had taken from the wreck, and when the secret of her birth was discovered, I deemed it not mine own but that of the Queen of Scots.
Next to him was another young man with the same look ofbirth and breeding, namely Chidiock Tichborne; but John Savage, an older man, had the reckless bearing of the brutalised soldiery of the Netherlandish wars.
Mrs. Talbot did not by any means view this speech as the insult it would in these days appear to a lady of her birth and position, but accepted it as the compliment it was intended to be.
They are striving earnestly and successfully to adjust conditions created in the birth pangs of a social revolution.
With native talent at hand for the developing he imported to the proud old civilization of his birth some rough and ready brethren of the western prairies.
The great feast of Christmas, in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ, is celebrated on December 25th.
He ascends the altar and nine times asks God to have mercy on him, Kyrie Eleison; then follows the beautiful hymn the shepherds heard the angels singing at the birth of the Saviour, Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
He was of alien birth and did not work harmoniously with the Court of Assistants.
John Jacob Sax being a Prussian by birth & not naturalized nor understanding English The Court did not think it proper to examine him.
Her husband died before the young king was born, and from the hour of his birth she has watched and cared for the boy.
By a curious fate, his birth deposed from the throne his sister Maria de las Mercedes, who as a little girl was queen for a few months.
We are thus asked to imagine a divine wisdom selecting the better and destroying the inferior much as an omniscient Eugenist might destroy at birth all human beings of an undesirable type.
NOTES [1] For an account of the birth of Kartakswami see The Tale of the Tulsi Plants p.
The little daughter-in-law did so, and a little time afterwards the snake-queen gave birth to a fresh litter of little snake-princes.
I call to witness all the coasts and regions of the world, to which the Gospel trumpet has sounded since the birth of Christ.
For in the birth before, she was a man, doomed by gati[40] to become a woman in the next, by reason of a sin.
The provinces vied in magnificence with the capital in celebrating the fetes of the birth and baptism of the King of Rome.
She had obtained permission to see this child, whose birth had covered Europe with fetes.
Till that day the accident of birthwas the key to every honor and every position.
In the interior of the palace, the attention was eager, impassioned, clamorous; and each vied with the other as to who should first have the news of the birth of the child.
The wife of the hangman of Genoa gave birth to a daughter, who could not be baptized because no one would act as godfather.
This was the anniversary of the birth of the First Consul, and the opportunity was used in order to make for the first time this anniversary a festival.
Thus passed the first months which followed the birth of the King of Rome.
When she became enceinte, the Emperor had a house rented for her in the Rue Chantereine, where she bore a fine boy, upon whom was settled at his birth an income of thirty thousand francs.
The twenty-second discharge which announced the birth of a boy was hailed with general acclamations.
At half-past ten Madame Blanchard set out from L'Ecole Militaire in a balloon for the purpose of carrying into all the towns and villages through which she passed, the news of the birth of the King of Rome.
I have heard Josephine say that the birth of the King of Rome repaid her for all sacrifices, and surely never was the devotion of a woman more disinterested or more complete.
Besides men distinguished by their posts under the government or in the army, there gathered others also who were not less distinguished by personal merit, or the position which their birth had given them before the Revolution.
As far as I am concerned, you know, I attach little value to those who have but gentle birth to boast of.
There was about it "a marked development of the intellectual at the expense of the physical to which her New England birth may afford a key.
Max Strakosch was an Austrian by birth and, having lived the greater part of twenty-five years in this country, considered himself an American.
Did Gabriel hesitate to descend from the presence of God to bear to an aged priest the tidings of the birth of a child?
Margaret, left alone, gave birth to a child, the greatness of whose manhood might have softened the remembrance of her earlier sorrows, had she lived to witness it.
As patriotic sentiment awakened, the disinterested enthusiasm of Lafayette, woven, as it is, into the record of the struggle which gave birth to our republic, yielded another and more attractive element to the fancy portrait.
It has been stated that after child-birth a woman cannot conceive afresh without having seen something which I expect you have not seen.
The idea of giving birth to a child at the convent was too dreadful--I should have languished till I died in a terrible dungeon--and M.
We got it to send the poor lay-sister to sleep when the pains of child-birth should come on.
I am now quite well, having given birth to a fine boy at two o'clock this morning.
Somehow, this quaint household in the country, where nothing more important is happening than the birth of a child, becomes a symbol of the great world with all its tangle of cross-purposes.
In Rabelais I seem to see the embryonic humour of a world coming to the birth and not yet fully formed.
Such was the strange twist that accompanied the birth of romanticism in France and in England.
George built roads, Robert bridges to run them over; for railroads have given birth to the most stupendous and splendid bridges the world ever saw.
Giving an interesting history of the lives of three young men from the day of their birth to the sad death of one, and the great success and happiness, after great struggles, of the other two.
The first idea of the modern railroad had its birth at a colliery nearly two hundred years ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
