As it was, the little groups talked quietly, discussing the atrocity or the merits of the local Midwives, comparing the circumstances of their various confinements.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
Above all, the heart of every woman is in a plot against the wrong; and as Pharaoh was afterwards defeated by the ingenuity of a mother and the sympathy of his own daughter, so his first scheme was spoiled by the disobedience of the Midwives, themselves Hebrews, upon whom he reckoned.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
In this respect he says Lassalle is a genuine son of the modern time, to which Varnhagen and himself had acted in a way as the Midwives, but on which they could only look like the hen that hatched duck's eggs and shuddered to see how her brood took to the water and swam about delighted.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae