Use birth in a sentence
Sentences ending with birth
- Guida, ma couzaine, you'll stay here, in the land of your birth. [11]
- And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
- The year 1709 was made ponderous and illustrious in English biography by his birth. [6]
- After all, he was her son, and she had not wronged him since his birth. [11]
- The recruiting officer was certainly a handsome man and, moreover, of noble birth. [10]
- I think he wanted to give back again all that John Grier had ever paid out to him or for him; and now, at last, he fights the man who gave him birth! [11]
- Not that I want a dog like that, but only to know the secret of its birth. [5]
- His own father told me that a great wonder was shown to him the very day after his birth. [10]
- Barbara permitted her to accompany her, though she had intended to take her companion, and would have preferred to travel with the woman of noble birth. [10]
- The others set their faces northward, and Father Corraine walked beside Mary Callen's horse, talking quietly of their future life, and speaking, as he would never speak again, of days in that green land of their birth. [11]
Short sentences using birth
- I'm of Mormon birth. [13]
- Place of birth? [5]
More example sentences with the word birth in them
- It is right you should know the truth about your birth, but it is not right you should declare it to all the world now. [11]
- There were three worlds here--that of Jack, to which Edith belonged by birth and tradition and habit; that of which we have spoken, to which she belonged by profound sympathy; and that of Father Damon, to which she belonged by undefined aspiration. [4]
- He probably brought with him in 1610 his wife, who gave birth to his daughter Bermuda, born on the Somers Islands at the time of the shipwreck. [4]
- If the woman who gave him birth wishes to make him feel new and deep gratitude, let her hasten at once to Luxemburg, where he has been for several hours in the deepest privacy. [10]
- Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
- That association from which this draws its birth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has taught its blind to make many things. [5]
- Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. [9]
- He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
- He knows that we are before an audience having strong sympathies southward, by relationship, place of birth, and so on. [7]
- I know the way you have come, and your birth is as good as mine. [11]
- Another very good way to do, and probably not so expensive as the awning, would be to have four persons of foreign birth carry a sort of canopy over you as you hoed. [4]
- In truth he was none of these things, save that he was of German birth, and of as good and honest German origin as George of Hanover and his descendants, if not so distinguished. [11]
- The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary o f the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877. [5]
- The virgin birth was an established fact in nature, and had its place in the social economy of the bee. [9]
- No doubt his want of advancement was partly due to want of influence, which better birth would have given him; but the plain truth is that he had a talent for making himself disagreeable to his associates. [4]
- In the opening verses of this Gospel the Incarnation is explained, not by a virgin birth, but in a manner acceptable to the educated and spiritually-minded, in terms of the philosophy of the day. [9]
- At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
- I had no trouble in convincing mine host that I was the lad eulogized in the scrawls, and he put hand on the very sheet which announced my birth, nineteen years since,--the fourth generation of Carvels Ivie had known. [9]
- The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
- She gave birth to you in Texas eighteen years ago. [13]
- This Ursula was to speak, by reason that she was mistress of all such arts; likewise was she by birth the chiefest of us all, inasmuch as that her late departed mother was daughter to the great Reynmar, lord of Sulzbach. [10]
- The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
- And Grafton turned to revenge; he went to Mr. Carvel with the paper he had taken from the strong-box and claimed that my mother was of spurious birth and not fit to marry a Carvel. [9]
- I am forbidden to return to the British Isles or to the land of my birth, forbidden free traffic as a citizen, hammered out of recognition by the strokes of enmity. [11]
- The critics seemed to Philip very slow in letting the public know of the birth of the book. [4]
- The first thing to be done is, some years before birth, to advertise for a couple of parents both belonging to long-lived families. [6]
- To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain--plow had gone over before. [5]
- When we went to Agra, by and by, we happened there just in time to be in at the birth of a marvel--a memorable scientific discovery--the discovery that in certain ways the foul and derided Ganges water is the most puissant purifier in the world! [5]
- She put the thought from her, but it had had its birth, and it would not down. [11]
- I wondered whether this were birth, or training, or both, or a natural ability to cope with affairs. [9]
- And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, either. [5]
- Erasmus, as a theologian, was deeply versed in the Protestant faith, while he professed Catholicism merely as a consequence of his birth and with a layman's understanding and knowledge. [10]
- These thoughts suggest themselves in looking back at the striking record of the family made historic by the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [6]
- None could explain the vision, till at last the priests of the Libyan Ammon gave me the following interpretation 'Tentcheta will die in giving birth to a son. [10]
- The birth of the twins had brought something new into his life, which drew him nearer to Isabella. [10]
- New York at the time of our author's birth was a rural city of about twenty-three thousand inhabitants, clustered about the Battery. [4]
- The rooms of the second story, the chambers of birth and death, are sacred to silent memories. [6]
- This autobiography carries the reader from 1837, the year of Dr. Ebers's birth in Berlin, to 1863, when An Egyptian Princess was finished. [10]
- The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. [5]
- It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
- He was only the pitiable victim of his birth and of a cruel fate. [10]
- The key to the phenomena of this case, he believed, was to be found in a fact as humble as that which gave birth to the science of galvanism and its practical applications. [6]
- But I was the only person in all that throng who knew the meaning of this mighty birth, and what this imperial magician was come into the world to do. [5]
- A genius by the name of Jethro Bass had for many years presided (in the room of the governor and council at the State House) at the political birth of justices of the Supreme Court. [9]
- But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
- For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
- Am I then the first Junker who has made love to a sweet maid of low birth, only to forget her for a new lady love? [10]
- These invariably championed the doctrine of the virgin birth as the pillar on which the Incarnation depended. [9]
- Napoleon was in the air--a curious sequence to the song that was sung on the night of Valmond's arrival, when a phrase was put in the mouths of the parish, which gave birth to a personal reality. [11]
- It was at that time there appeared among us one of the most original and singular personages to whom America has given birth. [6]
- It must be that they are much more content with the climate and country upon which they happen, by the accident of their birth, than they pretend to be. [4]
- It is true that the steward's false pride had roused his indignation, and who can listen calmly to any comment on a stain on his birth? [10]
- It is asserted that the hands of English labourers are at birth larger than those of the gentry. [1]
- But she quelled that proud temptation at its birth. [13]
- His aspect was that of one of gentle birth. [6]
- The astrologers computed that even as I had been born under the fortunate sign of Amman, so thy birth had been watched over by the rise of the awful planet Seb. [10]
- From her left temple a large tress, plaited with gold thread, hung down to her waist, the sign of her royal birth. [10]
- It was as sudden as a storm in the tropics, as final and as fateful as birth or death. [11]
- She said that such a nature as that young man's was rarely and truly noble, and nearly perfect; and that with nobility of birth added it was entirely perfect. [5]
- Apart from his strength and health, his well-formed body, his noble birth, his faith in the love of his betrothed bride--at this hour he forgot how much these things were--he found nothing in his lot which seemed worth desiring. [10]
- Behind the princess stood her charioteer, an old officer of noble birth. [10]
- The door opened squarely on her, and he saw how refined and sad, yet self-contained, was the woman who had given him birth. [11]
- Of his birth some said one thing, some another; I know he was beaucoup gentil, and his heart, it was a lion's! [11]
- He would be soar for half a day at a spell after a piece of insolence out of the common, and then deliver me a solemn lecture upon the advantages of birth in a manor. [9]
- If Gabrielle Rouget should have any special connection with Luke Freeman, there might be need of the active counsel of a friend like this young officer, whose face bespoke chivalry and gentle birth. [11]
- The sages who served the Pharaohs in the gray dawn of time succeeded in fathoming the mystery of these names given to the everlasting ones at their birth, and their wisdom has come down to him through the generations as a priceless secret. [10]
- May not the serpent have bitten Eve before the birth of Cain, her first-born? [6]
- What is the sense of a new birth in a life that has scarcely begun. [10]
- There are many sayings in the Essay called "The Poet," which are meant for the initiated, rather than for him who runs, to read:-- "All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. [6]
- His master, he said, was one of the great merchants of the city, whose wife had died twenty years since in giving birth to Gorgo. [10]
- He was a rascal from his birth. [5]
- I never felt quite sure about any extraordinary endowment being a part of my inheritance in virtue of my special conditions of birth. [6]
- Even as he predicted who had given it birth, the Question destroyed the great Democratic Party. [9]
- During the night preceding thy birth I fell asleep at the bedside of my wife. [10]
- His birth and position in society were not bad. [2]
- Her birth and position gave her confidence and self-reliance, but there was nothing gracious or captivating in her individuality. [10]
- That Ann was poor she held of no account; but that she was not of noble birth was indeed a grief and filled her with doubts. [10]
- In the first place the marriage was not a brilliant one as regards birth, wealth, or rank. [2]
- He caught the picture in his hands, and kissed it,--very foolishly, men not fathers might think,--and read the name beneath, Richard Joseph Armour; and again, beneath that, the date of birth. [11]
- Madame Gallait, a Parisian by birth, was the very embodiment of the French woman in the most charming sense of the word, and the bond which united her to her husband seemed enduring and as if woven by the cheeriest gods of love. [10]
- That patriarch of our American literature, the illustrious historian of his country, is still with us, his birth dating in 1800. [6]
- The precentor and organist, aided by Bishop Pangraz Sinzenhofer and Blasius, the captain of the city guard, had endeavoured to collect the papers which proved Wolf's noble birth. [10]
- Experience has taught, or will teach you, that most of the wonderful stories patients and others tell of sudden and signal cures are like Owen Glendower's story of the portents that announced his birth. [3]
- At birth I only weighed 4 1/2 pounds with my clothes on--and the clothes were the chief feature of the weight, too, I am obliged to confess. [5]
- That then and only then the real man spoke, that then and only then the primitive soul awakened, that it supplied the thing left out of him at birth? [11]
- There was only one of him; the planet could not produce two of him at one birth, nor in one age. [5]
- I met only one lady who had forgotten the land of her birth and glorified monarchical institutions. [5]
- Arrived at her official and mysterious den, she asked me to tell her the date of my birth, the exact hour of that occurrence, and the color of my grandmother's hair. [5]
- The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. [1]
- But the circumstances of the present case--I being a democrat by birth and preference, and an aristocrat by inheritance and relish--" The earl stopped suddenly, his frame stiffened, and he began to stare speechless through the curtainless window. [5]
- With the exception of the little Median princess, Charmian had witnessed their birth, and they all loved her dearly. [10]
- Before the day of the Church's supremacy in the world, men were men, and held their heads up, and had a man's pride and spirit and independence; and what of greatness and position a person got, he got mainly by achievement, not by birth. [5]
- To that hour of terror Gorgo owed her birth, while to her mother it was death. [10]
- In the house of our neighbor Deuel--you know him--his young wife had just given birth to their first son. [10]
- At the time of my birth she was thirty-five, and, as I have heard from many old acquaintances, in the full glow of her beauty. [10]
- On the 25th of January, 1859, Emerson attended the Burns Festival, held at the Parker House in Boston, on the Centennial Anniversary of the poet's birth. [6]
- Macrinus, a man of humble birth, who owed his promotion to Severus, the father of Caracalla, had, the day before, been praying in the Pantheon to the statue of his deceased patron. [10]
- No one knew of his birth save the companions in exile of the Great Emperor. [11]
- However, young Englishmen of birth and wealth of that day were not apt to consider the feelings of those they deemed below them. [9]
- Yet he did not leave the old couple immediately; he was expecting two visitors--Barine's mother and Charmian's Nubian maid who, since the birth of little Pyrrhus, had come to the philosopher's every evening. [10]
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