I hurried off, boiling and surging with prodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him-he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied.
"Sketches New and Old, Part 1."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Democracy will emerge more pure, more powerful, more rational; destroyed will be the most infamous oligarchy ever known in history; oligarchy issued neither from the sword, nor the gown, nor the shop, but wombed, generated, cemented, and sustained by traffic in man.
"Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862"
Adam Gurowski