She saw women in the last stage of pregnancy, thin and distended at the same time.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
On the first application of this cruel instrument, the poor girl screamed with agony; but the unstability of her frame, attenuated and weakened by her previous sufferings, and her pregnancy, loosened, under the effect of the torture, that connection between agony and resolution, without which all tortured methods of extorting testimony must be unavailing.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
He had been very tender and considerate of her during her pregnancy, keeping up her spirits, guarding her against folly, insisting on luxuries in their travels so that she might be thoroughly comfortable.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick