The vagrant woman of later feeling was rather the sane creature of Ebenezer Elliott's fine lines in "The Excursion"- Bone-weary, many-Childed, trouble-tried!
"Essays"
Alice Meynell
The young Archduchess is a bright blond thing By general story; and considering, too, That her good mother Childed seventeen times, It will be hard if she can not produce The modest one or two that I require.
"The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes"
Thomas Hardy
Also their book saith, that when that she had Childed under a palm tree she had great shame, that she had a child; and she greet and said that she would that she had been dead.
"The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville"
Mandeville, John, Sir