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Example sentences for "male child"

  • This he did, and his wife was delivered of a male child.

  • Soon she became pregnant, and gave birth to a male child and a snake.

  • So he said to himself, "If this damsel bear a male child, I will kill it.

  • A female child weighs about one-fifteenth less than a male child, as a rule.

  • The average weight of a male child at different ages is as follows: Birth 7-1/2 lbs.

  • And his wife, after her time was fulfilled, gave birth to a male child.

  • Now when the days were multiplied after these things, she bore a male child.

  • Happy is the heart of the mother that bore a male child, that was impregnated with thee amongst the mountains.

  • Then he took to wife the daughter of his father's brother and was vouchsafed by her a male child, who was the goodliest of the folk of his time.

  • The damsel gave birth to a male child, whereat the king rejoiced with an exceeding joy, and the people heartened each other with the glad news of this.

  • Towards the end of his life, his Lord vouchsafed him a male child, and the boy grew up and was comely and learned all manner of knowledge.

  • When a male child is born, a certain sum is usually set aside, and in due time the accumulated interest upon it is spent on the boy's education.

  • On the Vidyadasami day, the tenth of Asvayuja, when a male child is five years old, the father goes through the form of initiating him into the mysteries of the alphabet.

  • Finally, on the morning of November 6th, after a pregnancy of four hundred and seventy-six days, she was delivered of a male child weighing 13 pounds.

  • Davis describes the spontaneous expulsion of a large polypus two days after the delivery of a fine, healthy, male child.

  • I pretended to be astonished at the answer, but she said boastfully, "You see that all we want is a male child born of an immortal.

  • After this I had to seek, in a place which the spirits would point out to me, for a maiden, the daughter of an adept, whom I was to impregnate with a male child in a manner only known to the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross.

  • At the end of nine months a woman would be delivered a male child, which would be three parts man and one part god.

  • They are thus dedicated when there happens to be no male child in a family; or, if a girl falls ill, a vow is made to the effect that, if she recovers, she shall become a Basavi.

  • May a male child, an embryo, be begotten in the womb.

  • The Darsana assured him that she would be safely delivered of a male child, and made him promise to present to the temple silver equal in weight to that of his wife, should the prophecy be realised.

  • The bishops commended her to God and left the palace, and prayer was made that she should bear a male child; for we believed in the words of Saint Procopius the anchoret.

  • And after a few days the empress brought forth a male child, and he was called Theodosius, after his grandfather Theodosius, the Spaniard, who reigned together with Gratian.

  • When a male child is six months old, the parents make preparations for the celebration of the Unnoprassun, or christening, when not only a name is given to the child, but it gets boiled rice for the first time.

  • According to custom, a conch or large shell is sounded at the birth of a male child.

  • All respectable Hindoos keep an exact record of the birth of a child, especially a male child.

  • In the twelfth chapter of Leviticus instruction is given that after the birth of a male child at least forty days should elapse, and after the birth of a female, or maid child, at least eighty days should be permitted to elapse.

  • This greater activity of the sperm is seen also at the birth of the child; for physicians tell us that the pulse of a male child at birth beats two or three times a minute faster than that of a female child.

  • Where such influences are exerted upon the embryo, a male child with an effeminate, girlish nature, or a female child with a boyish, masculine disposition, might be the result.

  • Like Kuan Kung, he is shown bearing in his arms a male child--indicating a promise of numerous progeny, including literati and famous officials.

  • Lao Chün appeared to her, riding a dragon, and carrying a male child in his arms.

  • The same declaration admitted, that she had borne a male child, in circumstances which gave but too much reason to believe it had died by the hands, or at least with the knowledge or consent, of the unhappy mother.


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