Which preposition to use with midwives

to Occurrences 6%

George Dyer is an Archimedes and an Archimagus and a Tycho Brahé and a Copernicus; and thou art the darling of the Nine, and midwife to their wandering babe also!

of Occurrences 5%

Thence he went to the University of Tübingen, and then lived for some time as a private tutor in Bern, but he was soon attracted to Bodmer, at Zurich, who, like Gleim at a later date in North Germany, might be called the midwife of genius in South Germany.

in Occurrences 5%

All the midwives in the town are his intelligencers; but nurses and young merchants' wives that would fain conceive with child, these are his idolaters.

for Occurrences 4%

"Many men," saith Gellius, "are very conceited in their inscriptions," "and able" (as Pliny quotes out of Seneca) "to make him loiter by the way that went in haste to fetch a midwife for his daughter, now ready to lie down."

from Occurrences 1%

I had brought a midwife from Grenoble who never moved from the farm.

into Occurrences 1%

When midwifed into daylight, the gossips were at loss to pronounce upon its species.

than Occurrences 1%

The poet in his preface to this play boasts his having brought a new sort of Comedy on our stage; but his critics will not allow any one scene of it to be the genuine offspring of his own brain, and denominate him rather the midwife than the parent of this piece; part of it is taken from le Burgeois Gentilhome, & la Marriage Forcè.

with Occurrences 1%

"Grandmama was a midwife with black and white for forty-five years in Helena.

without Occurrences 1%

England's population increased so steadily and rapidly during the nineteenth century, that it seemed to trouble no one that countless lives of mothers and babies were lost during the perils of child-birth; it remained the only civilised country of Europe where a woman could practise as a midwife without any training at all.

after Occurrences 1%

Sister Catherine, the deaconess of whom I have spoken, who had been allowed to attend the School of Midwives after my election, through the influence of her theological friends upon Dr. Schmidt (the city magistrates having refused her because I was already the third accepted pupil), had as yet no position: and these friends now sought to make her the second accoucheuse; I having the first position, with the additional title of Chief.

about Occurrences 1%

Post-chaises and hackney-coaches were unknown, their places being supplied by three or four old sedan-chairs, which did a brisk business in carrying midwives about in the night, and old ladies to church and the dancing-assemblies.

in Occurrences 1%

By ANNIE M'CALL, M.D., Senior Medical Officer and Lecturer, Clapham Maternity Hospital and School of Midwifery; late Lecturer in and Demonstrator of Operative Midwifery, London School of Medicine for Women; Examiner, Central Midwives' Board; Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the London County Council for the Supervision of Midwives in the County of London XIII.

as Occurrences 1%

The midwife, too, should run no risk of carrying infection from others, as a doctor might do. (2) "Meddlesome Midwifery" is not so much a temptation for the midwife as the doctor, though she also may want to do too much.

at Occurrences 1%

You'd think he'd been the midwife at the borning of the world, and helped to nurse it and bring it uphe's that knowing about it.

by Occurrences 1%

This belief inspired him with the desire to give me an education superior to that of the common midwives; and, at the same time, to reform the school of midwives by giving to it a professor of its own sex.

Which preposition to use with  midwives