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Lexicographical Neighbors of Given Birth
Literary usage of Given birth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"... incomparably more vast, the forces of nature have given birth in the innumerable
abodes of the sky to an infinite diversity of beings and substances. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"Of these kindred, though rival, names, the former had given birth to the Imperial
race; and the latter has been extended, by accident or error, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"... of ape had given birth to a dead child twelve days before she was seen by the
reporter. In addition to tin- irido-choroiditis of the left eye, ..."
4. The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Pierre Marie Augustin Filon, Augustin Filon (1897)
"... Forces that have given Birth to the Contemporary English Drama — Disappearance
of the Obstacles to its becoming Modern and National—Conclusion. ..."