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Example sentences for "dead child"

  • You will forgive me, Ronald," pleaded the gentle voice, "for the love of my dead child?

  • Lord Earle was alone with his dead child.

  • While Lord Earle wept over the dead child, Lady Helena mourned over the living one, whose life hung by a thread.

  • His second case failed, but in a third he was successful by the same medication with a woman who had before borne a dead child.

  • His fifth case was extraordinary: It was that of a woman in her tenth pregnancy, who, with one exception, had always borne a dead child at the seventh or eighth month.

  • Artificial delivery was deemed necessary, and a dead child, seemingly burned much like its mother, except less intensely, was delivered.

  • She ruptured her uterus, and a dead child with a fracture of the parietal bone was found in the abdominal cavity.

  • I had no more idea what to do with a dead child than a baby would have had.

  • You, my judge, can you imagine any fate more terrible than standing quite alone on the Brighton platform with a dead child in my arms?

  • Now, if upon trial it be found the child is dead, let the mother do all she can to forward the delivery, because a dead child can in no wise be helpful therein.

  • In drawing out a dead child, these directions should be carefully followed by the surgeon, viz.

  • The third is, that the child be alive; for all will grant, that the being delivered of a dead child is very unnatural.

  • When she came to a little recollection, she found herself in a deluge of discharges, and a dead child lying by her limbs.

  • I, actually I myself, a woman of my position, bought a child in place of a dead child!

  • There was more than a dead child in those tears.

  • Why, my dear lady, your boy was intended to take the place of a dead child; I am sure he was.

  • But will not that be an impossible thing--a dead child for a living?

  • There is not much difference between a drugged child and a dead child.

  • You will see him, and tell him what he is to do, which, in a word, is to put a dead child for a living one, and what you will give him for doing it.

  • At a still later period, Celsus gave similar directions, but to all appearance they also merely apply to a dead child.

  • To see a spark of fire fall upon one's arm, or breast, is a forerunner of a dead child to be seen in the arms of those persons, of which there are several fresh instances.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural pursuits; dead beat; dead bodies; dead calm; dead child; dead coral; dead game; dead horses; dead kings; dead language; dead leaves; dead man; dead mother; dead reckoning; dead silence; dead stop; dead sure; dead whale; dead woman; dead wood; flood plain; never before; sister dear; treasure trove; winter resident; you had