"Childbearing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with Patricia in the ensuing months. Her mother's blood told here, as Colonel Musgrave saw with disquietude. He knew the women of his race had by ordinary been unfit for childbearing; indeed, the daughters of this famous house had long, in a grim routine, perished, just as Patricia's mother had done, in their first maternal essay. There were many hideous histories the colonel could ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell |
