Expectant motherhood, By Nicholas J. Eastman.

It was a little seed, but it contained the germ of a mighty growth in the kinship of all womenthe women who differ as well as the women who agree; and the federation of clubs is the forerunner of that unity of the race of which philosophers have spoken, of which poets have dreamed, but which only the constructive motherhood and womanhood of the race can accomplish.

O sure there is no sorrow like the loneliness of desolate motherhood.

He was an arch sentimentalist and had followed a career of determined motherhood, bringing into the world litter after litter of puppies, exhibiting all the strains then current in Newbern.

Paintingwhat a pitiful transaction was art (in the divine stimulus at that hour) compared to the supernal happiness of evolved motherhood!

Next to Reuben, they filled her heart; the sentiment was after all but an expanded and exalted motherhood.

Wherefore, having heard that Elizabeth had been exalted to a miraculous motherhood, she made haste to visit her, not to ask her advice,for being graced with all good gifts of the Holy Spirit, and herself the mother of Wisdom, she could not need advice,but to sympathize with her cousin and reveal what had happened to herself.

Deep in Eugénie's heart there stirred the pang of her own pitiful motherhood, of the child who had just flickered into life, and out of it, through one summer's day.

She had become long since a humble inmate of his harem, and would have ended her days in the same obscurity if potential motherhood had not come to her as an honour and a crowning.

Her motherhood is mysterious because it seems to be one with the universal motherhood of nature, one with the motherhood that guards and warms to life the eggs in the nest and the seeds in the hollows of the hills, the motherhood of the whole strange vital process, wherever and howsoever it moves and dreams and breaks into song and flower.

who can measure the mountains of sorrow and suffering endured in unwelcome motherhood in the abodes of ignorance, poverty, and vice, where terror-stricken women and children are the victims of strong men frenzied with passion and intoxicating drink? Up to this time life had glided by with comparative ease, but now the real struggle was upon me.

God never made in his whole universe of worlds such a "duty" as unwilling motherhood.

It was the true instinct of the classic motherhood of our art before collectors mistook their residences for warehouses.

There came other meetings when he reached the main avenue; first Gaston and Lucie, already tired of play, and dragging about their puny limbs under the careless supervision of Celeste, who was busy laughing with a grocer's man; while farther off La Catiche, superb and royal, decked out like the idol of venal motherhood, was giving little Andree an outing, with her long purple ribbons streaming victoriously in the sunshine.