Births
[bə:θs]
Examples
- And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
- Now this number represents a geometrical figure which has control over the good and evil of births. Plato. The Republic.
- At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and C?sarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For when your guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and unite bride and bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly or fortunate. Plato. The Republic.
Typist: Rosa