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Example sentences for "born child"

  • They relate to her first-born child, and come all of them from the mother herself: In the first five months I heard from my son, when he cried, all the vowels.

  • Why then am I at so much pains to call attention to the evidence that Shelley was not strongly interested in his first-born child, and that in this particular Harriett resembled him?

  • The Annamites imagine that a new-born child is exposed to the attacks of evil spirits.

  • New-born child, seen from in front and from behind.

  • This calls to mind the foetal form of the new-born child, and the resulting type, because of this morphological coincidence, is classed among the infantile types.

  • Among some savage peoples, as we have seen, he may destroy his new-born child; among others infanticide is prohibited by custom.

  • If the Pagans had been comparatively indifferent to the sufferings of the exposed infant, the Christians became all the more cruel to the unfortunate mother, who, perhaps in a fit of despair, had put to death her new-born child.

  • Luther called him "a devil, and a first-born child of Satan," whilst Melanchthon was inclined to see in him both Gog and Magog.

  • The killing of the first-born child, or the first-born son, p.

  • I felt a father's tenderness and gratitude for a new and first-born child.

  • Every parent of a family knows that there is a very interesting emotion of heart connected with the birth of his first-born child.

  • If the first-born child in nature be received as a new and acceptable blessing, how much more so the first-born child in grace!

  • It is his duty to guard over the new-born child.

  • That is why one speaks of marriage rites but not of a marriage cult, of rites of birth but not of a cult of the new-born child; it is because the events on the occasion of which these rites take place imply no periodicity.

  • So for Strehlow as well as for Spencer and Gillen, there is a mystic, religious principle in each new-born child, which emanates from an ancestor of the Alcheringa.

  • The baptism of a first-born child is a ceremony which touches my heart, and yours, also, does it not?

  • It consisted in taking all the little children of the community into the house of the newly-born child, where the teacher made them read the Shema, sometimes also the ninety-first Psalm.

  • With these ceremonies the first act of consecration ended in the case where the new-born child was a boy.

  • In the East Indies, the mother with her new-born child is made to pass between two fires.

  • Here, as at the birth of Oberon and of Ogier le Danois, they interest themselves for the new-born child, and bestow their gifts upon it.

  • A fine young woman of Nithsdale was one day spinning and rocking her first-born child.

  • Being unable to cross the river, they invoked their deity to make a passage for them, for which it demanded the sacrifice of a first-born child.

  • If the pap-bowl is first got hold of by the bridegroom, the first-born child will be a boy; if the ring, it will be a girl.

  • We will next turn to some of the countless superstitions connected with the new-born child.

  • According to a Scotch superstition a new-born child is in the fairy spells until it sneezes, but when this takes place all danger is past.

  • The umbilical cord in a new-born child is fresh, firm, round, and bluish in colour; blood is contained in its vessels.

  • Omission: by neglecting to do what is absolutely necessary for the newly-born child--e.

  • They tell at Venice the story of a husbandman who had set his heart on finding one who was just to be sponsor to his new-born child.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bad man; born about; born again; born babe; born children; born citizen; born citizens; born from; born here; born infant; born leader; born women; borne along; borne away; duties towards; fair share; necessary duty; parliamentary vote; physician should; pitched battle; short laugh; still going; this girl; triumphal entry; various species; where shall