with child
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (euphemistic) Pregnant.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 3, scene 2:
- I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, chapter 20:
- Nothing was more frightful to me than his caresses, and the apprehensions of being with child again by him was ready to throw me into fits.
- 1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:
- I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 3, scene 2:
- German: in guter Hoffnung sein, in der Hoffnung sein
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