This is sore, A burden without fruit in childbearing; Between the nightfall and the dawn threescore, Threescore between the dawn and evening.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
It would also be for their interest to make such arrangements as effectually to separate the sexes, or if that were not done, so to overwork the females as to prevent childbearing.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
I heard snatches of childbearing adventures, astonishing yarns, interspersed with hard commonsense, not to say cynicism-the cynicism of people who cannot afford to embroider much the bare facts of existence or to turn their attention far from the necessities of life.
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds