Adjective : a lying-in hospital. From Dictionary.com.
"Sir, make haste upstairs, for your page is lying-in.". From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Aaron, for an Amishwoman to have heathen midwives at her lying-in. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
Mrs.B. is, if possible, more lovely since her lying-in than before. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Both she and the lying-in nurse arrived in good time for the birth. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
Hear but deliberately to all her lying-in, and of what belongs to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
He then quickly entered the lying-in room in which thy sire was born. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
But, sir, said I, did you not once see the poor lady after her lying-in?. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Particular care should be taken of the fires in smithies and lying-in rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The first few days immediately after delivery are often called the lying-in period. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Lotions of chloride of lime and use of nail-brush before admission to lying-in wards. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Hospitals founded, including the first lying-in hospital, which sparked great controversy. From Wordnik.com. [1738, May 24] Reference
Feb. 7 -- New York women plan to equip a lying-in hospital for destitute mothers of Belgium. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
I saw them both working together, they were knitting a big coverlet for Elizabeth's lying-in. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
We had a woman the other day, on the point of lying-in, brought to bed not many hours after she came in. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
In 1822, a midwife charged 40s. for a lying-in period in a bastardy case, almost double the earlier fee. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
When people came to see her, she wrapped herself up more closely and sat upright on her lying-in coverlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
But thou, - why thus unwashed and clad in foul attire, now that the days of thy lying-in are accomplished?. From Wordnik.com. [Electra] Reference
Esmond has helped me many a time, tended my poor wife in her lying-in, and doctored our Betty in the fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Her first delivery had been hard enough, but then she had at least been well sheltered during her lying-in. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
We had to think how we should deal with Isabel as we should no longer have the comfort of the lying-in chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
We may yet have two births here for this Christmas, for she can't well be moved until she's safely over her lying-in. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
No one should be permitted in the lying-in chamber until the patient is sitting up, except the husband and the mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Well, most pigs would protect their lying-in place; this one was just a little more protective than the others had been. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
Mrs. Masham is not well after her lying-in: I doubt she got some cold; she is lame in one of her legs with a rheumatic pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
A pit is dug inside the lying-in room, and in this are deposited water and the first cuttings of the nails and hair of the child. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Waters and Mary Hall called attention to the infamous relations between the lying-in houses and the baby-farming houses of London. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Beholding the lying-in room in which thy sire was born thus equipt, Hrishikesa became very glad and said, -- 'Excellent, Excellent!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Puru's race, 'He shall perform a hundred horse-sacrifices' -- these were the words uttered from the sky when I was in the lying-in room. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
“This is not a lying-in home, but a hospital for the sick, and is intended for all diseases, except infectious complaints,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
What a teazing life did she lead herself, and consequently her foetus too, with that nonsensical anxiety of hers about lying-in in town?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Unlike southern Avalon midwives, however, she generally did not attend the mother in the lying-in period unless there were complications. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
I found poor Woodman lying-in in the common ward, where she had been suddenly taken ill; herself and little girl were each doing very well. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
He's gone over to the lying-in hospital they told me. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
But no, I nevva had a linin-col (lying-in, 'cording to de doc). From Wordnik.com. Reference
Poor Lady Gower (139) is dead this morning of a fever in her lying-in. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
She had a fever for six weeks before her lying-in, and could never get it off. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
The first will be lying-in, the latter at Geneva; but I think she will come, if she walks to It as well as at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
He gave me hopes of some pied peacocks sooner, for which I asked directly, as one must wait for the lying-in of the pheasants. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
We played at Lady Hertford's last week, the last night of her lying-in, till deep into Sunday morning, after she and her lord were retired. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
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