| 单词 | birth |
| 例句 | My Polish papers would not do, said the little German man from behind the desk, one finger pushing up his wire-rimmed glasses, because I had never provided proof of my birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Suppose we do another version of the calendar analysis we did in the previous chapter with hockey players, only this time looking at birth years, not birth months. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Long Count tracks time from a starting point, much as the Christian calendar begins with the purported birth date of Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He argued that we are so helpless at birth that, if the first human infants had been put into the world on their own, they would immediately have died. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For reasons still unclear, America, the land that had given birth to Ashe and nurtured him, loomed bright as the place to go to realise my fullest potential in tennis, in life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave birth to your brothers and then your father gave me these two bracelets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I need him to help me do this, because even though earlier today I gave birth to myself, I am still a kid who needs his help. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The birth had betrayed his mother and brought shame to the family and to the people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At its birth the two of them had felt the same raw pain of separation, a wound that only the family pressing tight could close. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered his two little brothers clutching his mother, a woman whose swollen belly announced she was just days away from giving birth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Some dictionaries now accept the upstart “to the manor born” as meaning privileged since birth. tongue in cheek. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In tenth grade, he won a part in Blood Brothers, a musical about fraternal twins separated at birth. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But Haiti never really recovered from its difficult birth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Soft boiled foods could be fed to small children, permitting the kids to be weaned earlier and their mothers to produce babies at shorter birth intervals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I only had about six weeks after Raymond’s birth to get ready for the boycott lawsuit. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z As Montaigne put it in 1580, ‘the beliefs, judgements and opinions of men...have their cycles, seasons, births and deaths, every bit as much as cabbages do.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She saw deer give birth to fawns who were up and running in a matter of minutes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The California data included not only each baby’s vital statistics but information about the mother’s level of education, in come, and, most significantly, her own date of birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It looked like a birth defect, not an injury, so it could have been caused by a witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The crop birthed communities, requiring nails and braces for houses, the tools to build the houses, roads to connect them, and more iron to keep it all running. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “They don’t want you to see the Product when it comes out of you. When you birth it.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Two months after Diana’s birth, she is fired. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Even after the birth of the United States, Native peoples would not get out of the way. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Everybody but Constance gave their birth dates at once—not a Gemini among them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We won her freedom after establishing that she had had a tubal ligation five years prior to her arrest, which made it biologically impossible for her to conceive, let alone give birth to, a child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Since they were new princes, it was useless and damaging for Pertinax and Alexander to wish to imitate Marcus, who was installed in the principality by right of birth. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But I know that birthing kills so many women—and babies—that John has reason to worry. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Actually he had been interested in the horoscope for a spurious birth date but Mack had never mentioned it again and so Doc forgot it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His great shadow had lain across her since the hour of her birth, when she came forth amidst blood and storm into a world where she no longer had a place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Did the calf get it directly from grazing or indirectly from its mother’s milk or even before birth? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, it seemed safely far off, like getting married or giving birth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “How ridiculous, celebrating a birth date. I don’t even know the day I was born, and I sure can’t remember any of theirs,” he says, swinging his hand toward his kids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I am a Californian by birth and also, I have recently discovered, by nature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My mom was nervous too, and she managed to mix up some of our birth dates. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Deaths, births, marriages—why, just the other day he’d heard that Nancy Clutter’s boy friend, young Bobby Rupp, had gone and got married. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother says while she was giving birth to me, there was a big uproar, with the announcement that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But he hears no birth or wedding or death announcements, no numbers, no music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Often Katrina had told Kira the story of her birth — the birth of a fatherless girl with a twisted leg—and how her mother had fought to keep her alive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She met with her birth mother support group a few days earlier, telling them about the upcoming meeting with a voice that didn’t shake or tremble. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z To get papers, he said, I would need a photo I could not afford and a birth registration that did not exist. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They say hardly a wedding or birth takes place without at least one in attendance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Both their mothers had died in childbirth, though from the stories the other women still told, Somkit's birth had been more memorable and involved feet showing up where a head was supposed to be. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the meantime she has given birth to a child, whom she is bringing with her. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather Harry Tallis was the son of a farm laborer who, for some reason, had changed his name from Cartwright and whose birth and marriage were not recorded. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What the phrase tries to express is the new birth of the world with the awakening of Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In those days, none of us had birth certificates. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z War plants and shipyards demanded birth certificates, and mine would reveal me to be fifteen, and ineligible for work. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They are afraid to disclose their names, ages, or place of birth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z You offered tassali, condolences, for the death of a parent, congratulated the birth of children, and shook your head mournfully when the conversation turned to Afghanistan and the Roussis—which it inevitably did. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So much had passed to bring her to this moment: births, deaths, countless insignificant decisions that made her who she had become. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As he preferred the birth and death room to the attic with Dove and Dusty, she had let him stay on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A perverse benefit of birth in the camp was a complete absence of expectations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Now she must concede to those who think perhaps I should have been abandoned in the jungle at birth: well, they have a point. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Natasha will be in Jamaica feeling like a stranger in the country of her birth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Post-revolution, Iran had issued a new form of birth certificates, and we needed to secure replacements. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z All of us carry the bacterium in our bodies, probably since birth or immediately thereafter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman who gave birth to me in Columbus, Ohio, was Poppa Biles’ daughter from a previous marriage. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I didn’t know they were planning on going down for the birth, but I guess it makes sense. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z On bookshelves were bound volumes with my name and my mother’s embossed upon the spine beside a date; the dates stretching back to the time of my birth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This chapter is about the birth of the modern in two senses: first, there is the emergence of a new sense of the word ‘modern’ in the 1660s to refer to post-Galilean science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Behind her, Alys, her face folded into puzzlement and concern, began to replace her birthing tools into the woven bag. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was a Puerto Rican New Yorker, strong by birth and by upbringing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t ask to go on the next birth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan-the-first said to Mr. Taylor, “She is that young! She done birth—Emma, how much do five and three come to?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “He’s the son of one of our tenants. But the man’s not responsible for what he says or does. He’s been an idiot since birth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Because he’s my dad. I mean, you know. My birth dad.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Negotiations to end the war gave birth to an independent nation: the United States of America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I need full names, and places and dates of birth and death.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The problem with the sheep was that in the shock and pain of birthing, if she was left in the herd, she would often lose track of her lamb and the lamb would die. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Anno domini” is Latin for “Year of Our Lord” and refers to time since the birth of Jesus. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it really with the birth of our Saviour? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One morning as they sat under the old oak tree eating their breakfast bread, Alyce told the cat again about the birth of Tansy’s twins. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Fatima helps me fill in a form all about me: my age, date of birth, full name. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She had given birth to me in the morning and cooked supper for ten that night. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This roundness had to be made coin-sized so that she would see its circumference : punish her at the birth of her baby. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Our daughter Makaziwe’s birth was not difficult, yet she was frail and sickly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no record made of the date of the birth of this child, because neither Old Rit nor her husband, Ben, could read or write. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Have I crossed half the world and seen the birth of dragons only to die with them in this hard hot desert? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Today, the War on Drugs has given birth to a system of mass incarceration that governs not just a small fraction of a racial or ethnic minority but entire communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “She carried that boy, birthed that boy. And you have no right to judge her.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z There was a policy at the county medical center consigning all black patients to the basement, which meant that women giving birth were sometimes put next to patients with infectious diseases. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I always looked at that time in the hospital as being my actual birth, because I remember nothing of my life from before those days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Pa told me the dragon visited him many times, and each time it gave him messages about our births. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you don’t. You look mighty handsome. But did you notice the birth date on it?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in the days after a birth, I detected in her something of Judy’s heavy presence, in a forceful turn of her head, or the imperious arch of an eyebrow. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “However, according to my birth certificate, I turned forty-five in April. Long before I was Adam Douglas, I was a kid named Vernon Thompson. I’m three-quarters white. The other quarter...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Yawning, I answered his questions about my date of birth and grade in school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When Kaori imagined her birth, she pictured herself emerging from a patch of lavender, dark haired and full of rage at the injustice of her past lives, of which there were two. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z "Mother was an American by birth; Father is by naturalization. I was born on the high seas. That makes me American." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z "What's happening here," I said, "a new birth of a nation?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Type of birth defect. When I was younger, about your age, I used to be angry. At my father in particular.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The people, I said, wanted democracy, and political leadership based on merit not birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was tantamount to a threat to throttle Livermore at birth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They weren’t client files; they were for family, stuff like birth certificates and house insurance and life insurance and repair bills and receipts for major items like our refrigerator and television and washing machine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I mean, if this were, like, 1642, my wide birthing hips would be worth many cows or something. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A thousand years later, the canals were choked with reeds and mud, and pools of stagnant water gave birth to swarms of flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But let us come to Commodus, who held imperial power with great ease, having inherited it by birth, being the son of Marcus. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z This, though, was One Life to Live, and no one could suddenly recall the birth of a child quite like Erika Slezak, who played both Victoria Buchanan and her alternate personality, Nicole Smith. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She had given birth at the zoo to two young ones, strapping males five and eight years old that were her—and our—pride. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She was thirty-five now, had been married three times, and had given birth to ten children, all of whom had died soon after being born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We are not like the demons, who lock a child into one name from birth—with maybe a nickname if he is lucky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one is by Rabindranath Tagore. It is about the birth of my country.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Here we were—my adopted parents, my birth mother, my half sister, and a stranger my mother needed for support—courteously sitting across from one another. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even he had not remembered to remember Vincent’s date of birth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the next drawer was a stack of baby clothes, ironed and done up nice, like for the next birthing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z These were Orgota, people trained from birth in a discipline of cooperation, obedience, submission to a group purpose ordered from above. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They saw the birth of a proud new class. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a lot older than my birth parents, more like my grandparents’ age, but I loved them both, and I was happy to be with them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Light and dark groped for each other in the birthing of dawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only after the baby was born that I learned of the birth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “It’s my real name, sir. It’s on my birth certificate.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They were not the words a mother who had just given birth wanted to hear. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She says, 'I don't aim to birth no sin for folks to look at all the rest of my life, and I don't aim for Matty Lou to neither.' Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Gender was like a native tongue; it didn’t exist before birth but was imprinted in the brain during childhood, never disappearing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At the time, Dad had a wife under sedation who couldn’t bring herself to see the massively deformed baby she’d just given birth to. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z There he had to battle wealthy and influential utility magnates hoping to throttle the TVA at birth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was to have the birth and death room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So they decided to consult Dr. Henry Holland, in London, who had attended Annie’s birth and had become their family doctor since Charles’s father died. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Barry gave us pamphlets about our births. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "I mean to give him better reason than mere birth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nok's parents had never once spoken about her birth, and she had never asked. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They placed it in my arms when I had recovered a little from the birth, in silence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There, cut off from all communication, I was truly alone, the only person in the solar system who could not even see the planet of his birth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never officially changed my last name on my birth certificate to Colvin—it still said I was Claudette Austin. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Since Tom was in pajamas, having been routed from his bed, most of the island knew about Bob’s birth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day that my father and I returned from the tribal reserve my mother gave birth to a baby girl, my third sister. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A small man, as hairy as he was homely, he was a Sparr by birth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The girl Kira was imperfect at birth. She had a visible and incurable defect.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was a lord, by right of birth. I want no hollow titles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter was overjoyed when his wife gave birth to a strong boy. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z His mother had told him he had been born in France and that his father had died before his own birth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The feel of the mask clamped over her face during his birth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lindsey packed the camera in her duffel while I contemplated the film inside it, how it was pregnant with our secret, its birth inevitable. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile offspring. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good workplace, allowing her to take six weeks of maternity leave after Lexie’s birth, then Trip’s, then Moody’s. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "We granted you the comfort of a tower cell befitting your birth and station. You repaid us by trying to escape." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The family has gathered at Fifi's house for Christmas, which falls a week after the baby's birth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Cows, goats and sheep produce milk only after giving birth to calves, kids and lambs, and only as long as the youngsters are suckling. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth of Bigger Thomas goes back to my childhood, and there was not just one Bigger, but many of them, more than I could count and more than you suspect. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z So I cry and scream and hold my belly as if I am giving birth to all the misery and pain that has ever walked the earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z After checking their security in the cart, the birthing attendant had ridden off toward the Nurturing Center to deliver them there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Thoroughbreds are placed in age classes according to the year in which they are born, rather than their birth month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “His birth mother died. One of his second mothers died later, and he lost his best friend, and then his daughter. Like you said, lots of sad things.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Yes, in love, Orestes replied, but not by birth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the birth of what we now know as algebra. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meereenese of lesser birth crowded the upper tiers, more distant from the carnage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Her father was killed by beasts even before her birth. And now her mother is dead,” Vandara went on. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, his eyes were drawn to the gods and goddesses, arranged in birth order. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He filled out the birth certificate without faltering, betraying no emotion at all as he handed the completed form to the floor nurse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My mother vowed not to go anywhere until she had the birth certificate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In three months she gave birth to a perfect darkeyed baby boy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There where the lonely wind of the llano sang to the lovers’ feat of your birth, there in those hills is your innocence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The young Latvian woman who gave birth was screaming in my face and dragging me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Handmade utensils had held their belongings and food; they had always eaten together at a wooden table that Kira’s father had made long before her birth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One day he brought news that Sissy had given birth to another child which he had been unable to insure since it had lived but two hours. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My work did not, could not, end with my marriage to Joseph and his children or even with the birth of Truitt. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The lecture inspired Guth to take an interest in cosmology, and in particular in the birth of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When the strong healthy boy, howling at the indignity of the birth process, was put to her breast, she felt a wild tenderness for him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife had given birth to four strong sons, but in the king’s reign, he had been forced to ride into battles to preserve the peace of his kingdom. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Your new worker dragged out three file storage boxes. I found all sorts of information on your birth family, foster homes, schools. . . .” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Both were clearly of exalted birth; they looked like the sons of kings, but the face of one was deeply marked with lines of pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, for years a few hardcore gossips had whispered that Eliu was actually the product of a virgin birth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one’s birth, whether one acknowledges it or not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth of one child was cause enough for celebration. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Eighteen months later his sister was born, and five and a half years after the birth of his sister, his brother was born by Caesarean section, both in that same hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Oh my! First a doctor and hospital to give birth, then college insurance. What next?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The captains, knights, notable warriors, and others of high birth we shall ransom or make other use of, the rest I mean to hang... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Though he was technically now simply a One—every newchild born his year had become a One at the Ceremony—she calculated the months from the day of his birth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He felt he had to take care of her: his father had been a ghost since his birth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Her body that had carried and given birth to Ruth May last of all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked for a brief period as a bookkeeper at Hampton Institute’s Health Service but left after the birth of her son, Levi Jr., in 1946. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There were no more jokes or excuses to be made for the silly, grumpy old woman we’d known from birth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we’re talking about. Most people there don’t have birth certificates.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Within ten minutes, the clerk had faxed over a birth certificate request form with no questions asked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The two boys were in the old man’s room and in the third room O-lan gave birth alone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Colorful lightning spiderwebs across the sky; silver, white, and emerald green weave the most beautiful and terrifying exhibition to mark the hour of the princess's birth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This is the conception of life which underlies the Norse religion, as somber a conception as the mind of man has ever given birth to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I took her and carried her far enough away so that the villagers would never find her, far beyond even the kingdom of her birth, to a village by the sea. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “We’ve done our duty by baptizing the,”' Úrsula would say, jotting down in a ledger the name and address of the mother and the place and date of birth of the child. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And there was Suzanne, with her Nigerian birth certificate and her collection of beloved aunties in Jamaica. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Both presidents were great patriots and signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it is a majestic coincidence that they would both die on the day all Americans celebrate as the birth of this country. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One day Jockey was bound to choose the correct day of his birth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Before leaving, Vaughan informed his wife, who had recently given birth to their tenth child, about a hiding spot where he had stashed evidence that he had been gathering on the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Its shape is guided by the image of birth, death, and rebirth: the birth of a nation, the death of its soldiers, and the “new birth” of liberty that comes out of it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The last time had been to make the announcement about the cubs’ birth ten weeks ago. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I hid from battle only once, when I gave birth to our baby. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing that during the night, his wife in great pain, and after nearly twenty-four hours of labor, gave bloody birth to a fragile baby girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The jacket he wore was a part of his father’s history, a fragment of Bull’s biography that occurred before Ben’s birth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Claire thought back, and remembered which of her sister Vessels had been preparing to give birth when she was dismissed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And it seemed that it would go on or had gone on forever and that there had always been sheep and lambs and birth. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And on each stone, the date of death was the same as the date of birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the glow of the fake sun, framed family pictures and yellowing birth and marriage certificates are attached to the other walls, like a shrine to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In this sense, stars have parents; and, as is sometimes also true for humans, a parent may die in the birth of the child. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each document gave a different birth date, and neither matched the one Grandma had put on the affidavit. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was like this plain had birthed it, just for Jack, and now it presided proudly over this kingdom of nothing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He looked in the birth and death room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I discovered that a man may not enter a house where a woman has recently given birth, and that a newly married woman would not enter the kraal of her new home without elaborate ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And they keep on telling me that they can’t issue my child a birth certificate because the clinic didn’t deliver him.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shall have given birth by then. I can tell by this thing’s movements in me.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She had given birth to three children by the time she was eighteen, before her parents arranged for a hysterectomy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z These were members of the Royal Family’s personal guard: ruthless, lightning-swift soldiers trained from birth to protect and kill. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Caroline threw in imitations of the happy, drunken cats while the Captain and Call hooted with delight, and I felt as I always did when someone told the story of my birth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the horrifying stories about mothers trying to console their babies born with microcephaly and other tragic birth defects were heartbreaking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They were like the Vessels in the pill-taking time between births—without feeling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Growing up on his parents’ farm, Vince had birthed plenty of calves and lambs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It is a true objective fact, and if I had a stroke and forgot my date of birth I could establish it without any difficulty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The birth was the same as all the others. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When neighbors didn’t want me to birth their babies anymore. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z What he should have said is that it takes twenty- three people to be 50 percent certain that there is some birthday in common, not any particular birth day such as March 19. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “She died when she birthed me. Alys came, they said, and helped, but I was big and she labored too long, and bled, and she died. It happens sometimes.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her belly, was as great as though with child these three years, only there was no birth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Shouldn’t you like lie down or go to the birthing center or something?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest’s vestments shone with the white and gold jubilation of the church celebrating the birth of its redeemer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth was a testament of His power. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No time,” said Louisa, who had died in childbirth, giving birth to twins. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “The queen has offered a lordship to the man who brings her your head, no matter how humble his birth.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It helped that Pocock’s own mother had died six months after his birth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Stanky, whose ma was Pinky, had give birth to a litter of six pups and they all lived. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z There had been hope and expectation, perhaps some anxiety, before each birth; they were natural feelings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “A dozen births,” Nicasia says, which is wrong enough to make me wince. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The current Butler had been guarding young Master Artemis for twelve years, since the moment of his birth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Okay, Grandpa, will you please introduce yourself and tell us your year of birth, and where you were born? Then tell us an important event from your life.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He wondered how many children she had given birth to. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Tell them your birth certificate and your parents were burned up in the fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My mother owes the course her life took to the timing of her birth, to the rioters of 1937, and to W. M. MacMillan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I’m always going to be the sister of a kid with a birth defect: that’s not the issue. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “The pig couldn’t help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Dad said God had orchestrated the birth just as He had orchestrated the explosion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The plant will have given birth to the future, and then it will be done. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z One at a time—there were always fifty in each year’s group, if none had been released—they had been brought to the stage by the Nurturers who had cared for them since birth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I told of the war-like births witnessed by Jason and by Cadmus, the one crop of souls arriving at truce, the other so involved in its savagery that none was left alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She had wanted a big party to celebrate Buchis birth, and he had floated through that day, a bubble of air between him and the party. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The desert horizon birthed sun after sun, and it seemed as if nothing would ever change. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came into being in one single moment—a cosmic cataclysm that gave birth to black holes, brown dwarfs, matter and dark matter, energy and dark energy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A few nights later she gave birth in their bed by the light of a drycell lamp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His parents named him after the doctor who attended his birth, Dr. Willard. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Advice on giving birth and raising kids, which I tuned out as soon as they started. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay in the camp hospital, trying to give birth to a baby she had thought she’d be having in Reno, Nevada, where she and her husband Shig had relocated in 1943. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the notion of racial difference—specifically the notion of white supremacy—proved far more durable than the institution that gave birth to it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It did not occur to young Mariam to ponder the unfairness of apologizing for the manner of her own birth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But tragically, she died after giving birth to the second child. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Until Mother decided to get my birth certificate, not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And on my way to the synagogue the next morning, I saw the newspaper headlines announcing the birth of the Jewish state. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen Sarah called to help with a birth before, but it was natural that she should be called to this one. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Married to Doctor Charles Latour, both of whom had died of plague in Marseilles shortly before his own birth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “When they saw my leg at birth, it was thought I would not survive,” Crane-man had said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But this twist effectively marks the birth of a new philosophy of science: a scientific principle is now an hypothesis that has survived the test of experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every week, since Aziza’s birth, she pried his wallet open when he was asleep or in the outhouse and took a single bill. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I know nothing about my conception or birth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She didn’t intend to give birth to such a person. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She wondered now why she did not pull Baby away from the grandmother who had rejected her at birth and why she herself did not move away from Mama’s hug. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And if folks could overlook the rumors of a white woman birthing a Negro, well, they could forgive just about anything, couldn't they? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If we were all genetically programmed to play the piano deftly from birth, we might never learn to understand music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace saw Maya’s birth certificate, her parents’ names carefully typed in, and a small set of baby footprints. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Doctor Warren meant was it crippled from birth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time it did occur to her, around the time she turned ten, Mariam no longer believed this story of her birth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z With the bouncing of the car, the emotions of the past few days, and the doctor’s potions, Clara had acquired a skill at giving birth that she did not have the first time around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Would those be the same black kings who birthed all of civilization? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Five daughters successively entered the world, but yet the son was to come; and Mrs. Bennet, for many years after Lydia’s birth, had been certain that he would. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But I grudged Ira nothing: had I not saved from the day of her birth so that she should marry well? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z So these people were considered and treated as the dregs of society, aliens in the land of their birth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was certain the birthing would kill both of us, just as it had Mama. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The son discovered that Carmine’s birth mother, a new arrival from Italy, died in childbirth, and his destitute father gave him up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From the moment she learned that she was pregnant, my grandmother was again tormented by fears that the baby would suffer a hideous birth defect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z To tamper with something as mysterious and miraculous as the birth of a child was an act of hubris. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Various cities had been circled with lines drawn between them to indicate my parents’ travels, and the place of their birth, Calcutta, was signified by a small silver star. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The date of my birth got even more confusing when my dad accidentally filled out an immigration document incorrectly and suddenly I was born on September 21. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z According to this authority, “The peak between three and four years of age can hardly have any other interpretation than exposure of the young organism to a mutagenic stimulus around the time of birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “What is the date of your birth? Are you a spring pig?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z My parents had birthed and raised and loved me, and for that I owed them a debt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Forebodingly I caught a smell—metallic, the iron smell of blood, as when a woman gives birth, as at the sacrifice of a large animal, as when I menstruated and dreamed red dreams. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d been surviving out here in the forest and fields around the abandoned village, and Anastasia had given birth in the wild. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Who do you think they’ll blame if something goes wrong with the birth?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother used to get them too, and I remember she told me once she’d rather give birth than pass a kidney stone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was, she knew, where the Products were taken after the birthing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Did its birth and death occur at the same moment? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It gave birth to galaxies and stars and moons and suns and planets and oceans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t even turn around because I’m stuck staring at her End Day and my birth date. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, considering I get naked before takeoff, I’d say that exactly nine months from the moment we fly over the Columbia River, you’ll probably be giving birth.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Because of the PAC’s anticommunism, they became the darlings of the Western press and the American State Department, which hailed its birth as a dagger to the heart of the African left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She died giving birth to what would have been my younger brother. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He got rid of the lice he had lived with since birth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And he was. pleased when his second son’s wife bore also in her season, and she gave birth to a girl first as was fitting and it was seemly out of respect to her sister-in-law. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “My mother altered my birth certificate so I could fight in the First World War! That was the only lie she ever told! I was engaged to Fitzgerald’s sister!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The first pair of twins, born twenty years ago to Melissa, were undersize and weak from birth, especially one of them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her birth had been welcomed and, in spite of recent troubles, everyone would rally around to make her future as pleasant as possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These words had been uttered by the prophet, Isaiah, who had been called the Eagle-eyed because he had looked down the dark centuries and foreseen the birth of Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The birth of a work of art is an intensely private experience, so much so that many artists can work only when completely alone and refuse to show their unfinished pieces to anyone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Petyr's fa-ther had been the smallest of small lords, his grandfather a landless hedge knight; by birth, he held no more than a few stony acres on the windswept shore of the Fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He knew everything about each member of his flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth two months from now, and which were the laziest. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It caused quite a flurry in a family with a history of more births than graduations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This grandmother had died soon after the birth, but not before naming Jam’s mother Bitter. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was rooted in Georgia because of the seal on his birth certificate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the cusp of World War I, the country’s inadequate supply of aircraft had given birth to the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was necessary for Romulus not to stay in Alba, and that he be exposed at birth, so that he might become king of Rome and founder of that nation. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Schlesinger was a New Dane by birth, and an agent of Oakley Street by training and inclination. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You knew from her birth that she would be taken,” my father answered. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the same logic was extended to Luke: Luke would need income to support a family, to buy supplies and prepare for the End of Days, so he needed a birth certificate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Johnny lay in the ‘birth and death room.’This was hardly more than a closet with a tiny window off the kitchen, used for storage except in times of sickness. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He made it just in time for the baby’s birth.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My uncle says our lives are dashes—from birth to death. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The day of the flight, Stephen writes, “Mom’s off to meet her ninety-one-year-old birth mother. Go figure. A whole new life at the age of sixty-eight!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Not abandonment in the Tribal desert hours after birth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He is one of the first of the new soldiers, the cold-eyed men who have sensed the birth of the new war of machines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two months after we moved to Blythe, when Mom said she was twelve months pregnant, she at last gave birth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked at her and wondered if this woman with the black hair and laughing eyes was the woman who gave birth in my dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized that I would need a passport, and that without a real birth certificate, I was unlikely to get one. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If birth was a sleep and a forgetting, what was death? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is the birth of a star. The single most important thing that can happen in space. Well, the single most positive thing, anyway.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She looked like a dolphin, being born into the water, swimming away just seconds after birth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z My time of birth wasn't listed on the certificate, then got lost again amid other people's bad memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Now all of these 106 cherubs did what babies usually do at birth: they lost three or four ounces and it took them the better part of a week before they got it totally back. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When Pearl was born—on an unseasonably warm May afternoon, at the hospital, after fourteen hours of labor—Mia took the birth record card from the nurse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And just think. If we had named you at birth, we might have called you Orange! What a disaster that would have been.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She goes to prison and gives birth there right before she dies. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And they read, each in turn, of the birth of Jesus, and reading, they thought of Johnny dying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z —Virgil In the summer of 39 BCE, Octavia gave birth to a daughter. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I lie on the floor, breathing too fast, then slower, evening out my breathing, as in the Exercises, for giving birth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “I imagine our births were rather similar, except that on the same night I came into this world, the Angel of Death took my mother from it. Ever since then, I’ve had a gift.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z On Seminole, the birth celebrations were tempered by the prospect of death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This is caused by damage to the brain stem during birth. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just skip ten and go right to eleven? Or tell everybody your birth certificate was wrong and you just found out you’re really twenty-one.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The older ones and those that die at birth have boxes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And there is a whole subgenre of ancestor research—sons and daughters flying to New York clutching scrapbooks, tracking down letters of indenture, photographs, birth certificates. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His thoughts had turned to Frolic’s birth and how close to death the pup and his mother had been. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z After the birth of Princess Rhaenys, her mother had been bedridden for half a year, and Prince Aegon’s birth had almost been the death of her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The poet returned home after a very long trip to find that his wife had given birth to a daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By May, when the strawberry harvest started, she was only a few weeks away from giving birth, so she did not join Papa in the fields picking strawberries for Ito. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn had ordered garments sewn to her measure, handsome gowns to suit her birth and sex, yet still she preferred to dress in oddments of mail and boiled leather, a swordbelt cinched around her waist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It is a child whose birth his mother did not wish for.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The few overworked doctors of the country did not often get to the ranches for a birth unless the joy turned nightmare and went on for several days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Like everyone in South Vietnam, when she had turned fifteen she had begun carrying a small laminated card with her name, birth date, and photo on it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And she questioned Ma Costa about every detail of the story of her birth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My mother had left her job to give birth to another child, her seventh, a pretty, dimpled girl named Linah. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Amma tells how, on the night of Lord Krishna's birth, the guards fell asleep, and the prison doors magically swung open. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I wash my hands and say to her, “Why did you give birth to me in November? It’s such a gloomy time of year.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, but my mom and dad aren’t my birth parents. They adopted me when I was a baby.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “But she’s had them insured since birth—a nickel a week policy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She cradled baby Lai on her chest, and her mother spread a shirt over them, as if Nguyen had just given birth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They don’t measure time in years since the birth of Christ. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If he possesses at birth some qualities that make him less susceptible than others to poisons he is more likely to survive and produce children. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was the one Region whose population increase through immigration exceeded that through births.—And for all who came it had use. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I could not make out the face of the mother who rested from the pains of birth, but I could see the old woman in black who tended the just-arrived, steaming baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If unauthorized sex resulted in a pregnancy or a birth, the woman and her baby were usually killed, according to my interviews with a former camp guard and several former prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Gerhardt Fischer, the man listed on Bobby’s birth certificate as his father, was living in Berlin, and at eighty-two he was not in good health. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had seen others of her children die in early childhood or at birth, but none had caused the sense of loss that she felt now. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Barnsley went home that night and looked up the birth dates of as many professional hockey players as he could find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Only once—in the two years after your birth, in the first two rounds of the fight of my life—have I believed he would have been disappointed. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then, when Christmas break came, I would tell the school I was sick and go to Birmingham and live with my birth mother and have the baby there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I should have gone to Norvos to see my mother and the place that gave her birth, so she would know that I had not forgotten her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The king had it built around Dorian’s birth.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There are five different prayers: for health, wealth, a death, a birth, a sin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It took five weeks, but when the birth certificate arrived in the Richardson mailbox, it was a bit of a disappointment. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And she was thirty when she gave birth to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I saw that love in the wall of wedding photos and birth certificates. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She took and stored in her brain and her heart what she heard the midwife say and do about babies and birthing and easing pain. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus a system idealized as a great equalizer serves to reinforce the advantages of birth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The birth of modern science—the offspring of theory and observation— teetered on the precipice of their mutual mistrust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The main thing that marked Andrew’s birth for me was our first trip to meet Abel’s family during the Christmas holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Look at this report from her doctor’s appointment. It has her height and weight and everything. The last four digits of her social security number. Her date of birth.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So we always marked my birth on whatever midsummer day felt right. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Ymir slept, and while it slept, it gave birth: a male and a female giant were born from beneath Ymir’s left arm, a six-headed giant born from its legs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The citizens of Anielle were warriors from birth, and had been guardians against the hordes of the wild men from the White Fang Mountains for generations. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But now, at the age of forty-one, I feel another birth coming on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That a woman with this medical history, a woman so obviously high-risk, should be advised to attempt a second birth at home seemed reckless to the point of delusion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The only notable thing about the birth was that the infant was born with a caul which was supposed to indicate that the child was set apart to do great things in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “They should both flow through this town and out to sea where maybe they’ll make it back to the island of their birth.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She hadn’t needed much help at all, because, even in birth, Hassan was true to his nature: He was incapable of hurting anyone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You know what Sairy said? She said she had to get my birth certificate, too, and I told her I didn’t have any birth certificate.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Now, what exactly will you do to keep May Ling ‘connected to her birth culture,’ as you put it?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even as the Space Task Group worked to create boundaries with the research center that had given birth to it, Space Task Group employees still had responsibilities to their old managers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Do you think about your birth mother?” they asked her, and Maya said, “Yes?” because she thought that was the correct answer. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z "Eyes down, all right? Both of you. You're merchants now, not such an esteemed birth." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Claire had learned, already, from Alys that summer is a time of year, the time of sunshine and crops and the birth of young animals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The guard looked at the woman who’d just given birth, looked at Nguyen, then turned and stepped off the bus, gesturing the passengers to get back on. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “She’s probably another supplicant,” Cyril said, “come to beg you to take away a gift you gave her at birth.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The overwhelming dislike for the Pahlavi dynasty gave birth to the Iranian Revolution, and by then my parents were also fed up with the regime's inhumane tactics. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s—well—I’ll tell you the one thing I can think of. This is much more like a bitter, deadly combat than a birth.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Within one year of the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Weeds had gone untended while his wife had neared her time, given birth, and died. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must respect me. Don’t forget, I am your mother. I gave birth to you.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Yet it marks the birth of a new way of thinking, a way of thinking that continues to be our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Robert Graves linked these tohu to Tehomot, a primal Semitic dragon that was present at the birth of the universe and whose body became the sky and earth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The birth interval for many farm peoples is around two years, half that of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eyes that came to life in the moonblaze of sacristies and witnessed the birth of the world struggled to open against the priest’s grip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not eminent people, and there are few records concerning them except for the usual papers on birth, marriage, land ownership, and death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The site, described as a system for matching people who want to establish contact with their “next-of-kin by birth,” seemed reputable and aboveboard—nonprofit, no fee required. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I find Daddy’s birth certificate and the driver’s license from when he drove a cab. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The drug war helped to birth this system of mass incarceration and create a vast, new undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Your tongue betrays your birth with every word you say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I found a Tribal midwife. After I’d attended a few dozen births with her and learned what I needed, I poisoned her. “Then one winter morning, I felt the pains. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We met a nerve-racked Dad at the birthing center, which was nothing like a doctor’s office. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles was so thrilled that he put aside his anger and wrote to FitzRoy about the birth of his son. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z These things were tied together with a bit of dirty string from the corset of a woman who had given birth to twins after only ten minutes of labor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “After a while, when I was deemed ready, I moved into the birthing unit.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Without a birth certificate I would have never been allowed to enroll at any of the tribal schools in Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At midnight on the Eve of our dear Saviour’s birth, the kids gathered where there were unsold trees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu’s mother asked, as they sat in their living room, still digesting the news of the birth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Within a month Bibi had recuperated from the birth, and with the money that Haldar had left her, she had the storage room whitewashed, and placed padlocks on the window and doors. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Or that’s what Mama always said about birthing mothers, and I think it must be close to the same thing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Before Gogol’s birth, her days had followed no visible pattern. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Úrsula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “What about Supreme? And those shoes didn’t give birth to you. Look at me when I’m talking to you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She was hoping her husband might actually be at the hos-pital when she gave birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At birth, Orléans citizens are marked with permanent imperial identification ink that not even Belles can cover up or erase. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Stanton scaled back her work on temperance reform after 1842, when she gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Daniel Cady Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It felt to Tamara “that we had both been given birth again.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I had never seen a house decorated with tree branches to celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus, but it did pretty up the place. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hard delivery, long and painful; Helen felt as if she were giving slow birth to a rock. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All together, my mama gave birth to thirteen children. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z That sounded like because, like I already told you, my mother died giving birth to me, and my father is mad at me, and that's the only reason I run, but I didn't do nothing. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I’m going to meet my birth mom tomorrow. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Grace went downstairs, her stomach empty, her hair wild, and she said to her parents, “I want to find my birth mother.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks’ gestation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Except for the birds and reptiles, all these animals were marsupials—like kangaroos, they gave birth to tiny, helpless, fetus-like young which they then nurtured with milk in abdominal pouches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Galazza Galare arrived at the Great Pyramid attended by a dozen White Graces, girls of noble birth who were still too young to have served their year in the temple’s pleasure gardens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few days later, in an attempt to clean out her courtyard, Petra Cotes exchanged the rabbits for a cow, who two months later gave birth to triplets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I’ve been obsessed with candy since birth, practically. And same with Pigeon and—pigeons.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I am beginning to suspect that nothing that happens is fortuitous, that it all corresponds to a fate laid down before my birth, and that Esteban Garcia is part of the design. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had begun a new notebook right after the baby’s birth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Recognizing the gravity of his predicament, he had abandoned the cocky moniker he’d been using for years, Alexander Supertramp, in favor of the name given to him at birth by his parents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we are the original nine, Jason Grace, the ones who attended the birth of your father.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What she didn’t tell him was that she couldn’t bear to touch the thing, so she had given the blanket to Sara Jane, a slave who had recently given birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, of course, the women left briefly, to wed, to give birth, or simply assigned to some other temporary task. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several hours later, his first wife, Alice, died in his arms from kidney failure, a day after giving birth to their daughter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and color to fulfill both of those obligations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And black power births a kind of understanding that illuminates all the galaxies in their truest colors. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I tell him about our years with Ringling and how we left after the birth of our third child. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A long list of data appears—birth date, home address, phone number, credit card information, calendar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mami had strung a nugget of coral and an onyx bead on a safety pin and attached it to Raymond’s baby shirt at birth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When they told Jaime he was not allowed in the birthing room, he smiled and asked which of them proposed to keep him out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cristiana was of high birth, for her father was the queen’s cousin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "The Lamb Woman knows the secrets of the birthing bed," Irri said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We must take with us the blood that comes after the birth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an unyielding homage to ancient Greece and Imperial Rome, the birthing grounds of civilization. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It's not my fault Americans are overfed from birth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Three years later, he discovered her birth certificate in a trunk and pitch-forked her to death. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “We carried these jokers, birthed them, and now they got the nerve to be ashamed of us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the birth of her third child, she has cleaned a sister’s house for $35 a month and food. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She gave birth on the sand; the barbarian women were said to be able to birth in the saddle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth of the PAC did not come as a surprise to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned my call while I was out and told Gay that he very well might be my birth father. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z No one knew it then, but it was the birth scream of a legend. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite published reports, Bobby’s name was not listed as the father on Jinky’s birth certificate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had spent a third of my life traveling from the place of my birth to the North just to talk freely, to escape the pressure of fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as Nhamo was riveted on the story of her birth, her stomach demanded that she pay attention to dinner. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “My parents, well, I don’t even know if they have my birth certificate because they don’t really read—” “Neither do my parents!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-size puppies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She once told him that she did not have that fabled female longing to give birth, and her mother had called her abnormal until Kainene said she didn’t have it either. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The whole birthing center felt tropically humid, even though it was forty degrees outside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor asked necessary questions; the full name and place of birth and date of birth and so on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an envelope with my social security card and my birth certificate. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She argues that strange facts came first and plain facts came later; first, there were Siamese twins, hermaphrodites, furry babies and virgin births, then there was Boyle’s air pump. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Full name, date of birth, and social security number.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then she laid herself down upon her bed and gave birth again, although still she would have no one with her; even though she could hire whom she chose, she chose to be alone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One common method throughout history was to simply slaughter the calves and kids shortly after birth, milk the mother for all she was worth, and then get her pregnant again. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was no third baby, Crow. Just Jason, who was sent away. And Morgan, who died at birth. You are not from Penikese.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to think too much about blame, though, because it would remind him of Master and Olanna during those weeks before Baby’s birth, weeks he preferred to forget. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For this reason I never saw him leave, but each night as I drifted off to sleep I would hear them, anticipating the birth of a nation on the other side of the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My citizenship is an accident of birth, my mother delivering me on this end of a long plane ride from Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bigger, sometimes I wonder why I birthed you,” she said bitterly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had made great strides from his log-cabin birth, though his path to this point had not been easy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In those days it was rare for young people, really for anyone, to leave the town of their birth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Maybe I should’ve forgotten the birth part, since for my mother, it didn’t turn out well. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “Why, she’s birthed lots of folks around here for years. My mama says my oldest brother wouldn’t be here at all if it wasn’t for Sister Redempta.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I went back the second time to recover from Martin’s birth, since I’d gotten dangerously anemic, and to get the boys their booster shots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had sent five lordlings as well, whose names and high birth would add weight and honor to her mission. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Davos was a slight man, his low birth written plain upon a common face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But they have different birth dates. Also, one has a different name.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Every family must decide by tonight, when fireworks will explode in honor of America’s birth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Something about death reminds me of birth, I guess. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Reuven, it was in these mountains that Israel gave birth to Hasidism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She testified that her conclusion of a live birth was a "diagnosis of exclusion"—that is, she could not find evidence that the baby was stillborn and did not have another explanation for his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She’d wondered about her birth parents and if they ever wished for her, if they knew what had happened to her, if they knew she was half a world away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I seen plenty a womens get the baby blues after they done birthing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She wasn’t allowed into the class until her mother brought in her birth certificate to prove who she was. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Upstairs, I sometimes see my mother’s ghost on Mama Ya-Ya’s bed, her belly big, like she’s forgotten she already gave birth to me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are more than frantic moments of chaos. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It had been six years now since the day she had been carried in from the sea, and five since the morning that Elen’s birth returned the memory of her son to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Do you know what happened to my birth mother?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The nuns await the day of Christ’s birth, only weeks away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We were about to celebrate the birth of our first grandchild. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At birth I was not expected to survive past my first birthday. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nobody would ask for a birth certificate here, he said; people were in and out of the school all the time because of the oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, we’re just celebrating the birth of the Corps same as him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had given birth in one of the beds—or remembered with fondness the peeled paint places, because that’s what the baby, when he learned to pull himself up, used to pick loose. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z From darkness and from death Love was born, and with its birth, order and beauty began to banish blind confusion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still wondering at the birth of my niece when Erin’s response appeared. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Hurt you? Why would I do that? I’m here because of you. You and your clever names inspired my birth. You’re almost like my dad.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z While I waited I thought of the other births this very hut had seen. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarcely a man now alive had yet been bom when Malleon had compiled his dusty lists of weddings, births, and deaths. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That fall, when I was nine, I went with Mother on a birth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In Berlin, he knew, an ambitious liberal democracy with socialist leanings was shedding the husk of its past and guiding the birth of a new republic in the thirties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every man of the party was of better birth and higher station than Davos Seaworth, and the great lords glittered in the morning sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If May Ling could choose, don’t you think she’d choose to stay with her real mother? The mother who gave birth to her?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Whatever pride his lord father might have felt at Samwell's birth vanished as the boy grew up plump, soft, and awkward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Its eggs are cement-coloured and particularly hard-shelled; the young club their way out using their tails, whose spikes are well developed at birth. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1844, she gave birth to a second son, Henry Brewster Stanton Jr., and decided that she and her husband needed to settle the family in a home of their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z One of the red-robed justices—Justice Engert—asks the boys simple questions—name, birth date, residence, occupation—and then reviews the charges against each boy. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s still on my birth certificate, but at school, my mom thought it’d be easier to go by her last name. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z That night she dreamt she gave birth to a baby who gave birth to a baby and so on and so on until morning. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They snogged in the corner and Duncan Priest stood right by them and did his imitation of a cow giving birth. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She’s birthed babies, and when they grew up, helped birth their babies. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z For the sake of Gogol and Sonia they celebrate, with progressively increasing fanfare, the birth of Christ, an event the children look forward to far more than the worship of Durga and Saraswati. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Our father milked the mother goat only once in the first week, to let us taste the special richness of birth milk. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Even though scientists might never unlock the secrets of the universe’s birth, they are on the brink of understanding its death. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That was the real date of her birth for her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was still trying to convince my mom that the move away from the country of our birth, away from all our friends and family, would be worth it in the end. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She found a guilty pleasure in the humility he had cloaked himself in since Amala gave birth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After all, Pa always told the story about his birth and the dragon to everyone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am afraid of pain, of being tormented, even unto death, in giving birth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The news was that Elaine of Corbin had given birth to a fine son, whom she had christened Galahad —which was Lancelot’s first name, as you remember. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She needed to do something so impressive that it would overshadow any rumors about her birth—something so incredible that no one would dare speak ill of her family. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mix a few numbers up on your birth certificate, show up with what appears to be the appropriate license, and you’re set. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Agent Orange was later linked to cancer and birth defects in Vietnamese and Americans who were heavily exposed to it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “At least I gave birth to my daughter on the night that my mother was taken from me,” she would say. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I guessed that was why Afua was not on Fern’s birth certificate or school papers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Only the greenwitches remained, and their magic was limited to saying the old rites for birth and marriage and death. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Up until Milton’s birth, Lefty and Desdemona had enjoyed an unusually close and egalitarian marriage for its time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It is an accident of birth that can influence the outcome of a life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He could not behold the fiery heart without thinking of the shadow Melisandre had birthed in the gloom beneath Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Washington sympathized with whites who recoiled at “the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But mostly because Ali was immune to the insults of his assailants; he had found his joy, his antidote, the moment Sanaubar had given birth to Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Though Scottish by birth, he grew up in the far south of England, in the New Forest of Hampshire, because his mother was convinced that Scots were feckless drunks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Among the Dothraki, mothers stayed on horseback almost up to the moment of birth, and she did not want to seem weak in her husband's eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They left a daughter, which, at its very birth, Charity received in her lap—cold as that of the snow-drift I almost stuck fast in to-night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I wrote to the Swiss embassy asking them where my father was, but because my father is not on my birth certificate I had no proof that my father is my father. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At home we listened to aguinaldos, songs about the birth of Jesus and the joys of spending Christmas surrounded by family and friends. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I gave birth in the woods behind my house and put the infant up for adoption just as soon as I'd cleaned myself off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In our culture, when a woman gives birth, the husband does not enter the house where she is confined for ten days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She never saw her father, who had run off to Australia weeks before her birth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Some people have suggested that Mirabelle will lose touch with her birth culture,” the producer said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No. She’s still trying to birth you. Wants to make sure you can survive on your own.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Germany required all civilians to legally register and carry documentation that contained our name, photograph, nationality, race, birth, and family details. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This silence, continuing like a corridor, carried Gabriel back to the silence that had preceded his birth in Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Do you really think I can be a mother of sons? Don’t you think they’ll be loyal to her, since she gave birth to them?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Exactly the same planets were rising at their births. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had witnessed birth, but I’d been given none of the facts of conception. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Next they recorded the birth of Tica’s two children, a boy and a girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Minnie tells me she was bom in Toledo, Ohio, the last of thirteen children, and that her mother died giving birth to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once people began to produce food and become sedentary, they could shorten the birth spacing and produce still more people, requiring still more food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, though, colleges have come to reinforce many of the advantages of birth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z About eight months after Wes’s birth, Mary was awakened by a loud banging on the front door of the home she shared with her sister on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She keeps it cleaned, locked with all her birthing stuff inside. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z You have to come to this side because this new family of mine is both familiar and strange—just like how I am American by birth and Haitian by blood, bones, and tears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Even before his birth he was a strong feeling—a feeling about the nasty greenish-gray powder Pilate had given her to be stirred into rain water and put into food. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When the youngest daughter gave birth to a baby girl, the king and queen were overjoyed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It was before the beginning of history, so paleontologists have had to piece together the tale of the birth of mathematics from bits of stone and bone. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The time passed slowly, uneventfully, as I waited for the birth of the child I hoped would be Hagar. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “We want to be regarded as human beings in the land of our birth. And the present political system denies us that right.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Love knows no limits; it sees no distinctions based on birth or any other characteristic. A prince may love a seamstress as much as any princess.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z This view of things is compatible with the very old notion that a framework for meaning is somehow built into our minds at birth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa’s sad demise and death, by their own numer-ous business failures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Or my father, who never knew of my birth? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The story talked about my birth and my parents’ roller coaster of emotions, but focused mainly on the planning of the operation and the procedure itself. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She looked under baby in the dictionary and found little; she looked under birth and found less. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Shawn and Tyler, the next oldest after Tony, had birth certificates; it was only the youngest four—Luke, Audrey, Richard and me—who didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z All on top of the long and monotonous years spent learning the basics of the machine that had given birth to the space program. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He would be Biafran in a way he could never have been Nigerian—he was here at the beginning; he had shared in the birth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On one side of the gulch was a fine old adobe and on the other the house of the doctor who handled all the sickness, birth, and death in the town. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Large numbers of malignant tumors are discovered clinically in children under the age of five, but it is an even grimmer fact that significant numbers of such growths are present at or before birth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She named her newborn Robert James Fischer, and Hans Gerhardt Fischer was listed as the father on the birth certificate, despite the fact that he’d never entered the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “But I looked through it, and what she was saying just jumped out at me. For some reason, there were an incredible number of January, February, and March birth dates.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the first line he filled out the name he wished to change, and his place and date of birth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In chorus one morning the irony of celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace suddenly seemed too much. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "You like to spread the rumor that she was of noble birth," Fenoglio went on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I doubt that anyone in Ankara would take my name, my date of birth, my height, to help my family find me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A name given to him at birth with love and seriousness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z After each futile birth, her love of children grew stronger. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day that the social worker picked up Baby Emma to bring her home to her birth mother, Mama let us each hold her for a few minutes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s almost as if she gave birth to that baby herself. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of her Unsullied reclaimed their birth names after she had freed them; others chose new names for themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen that nasty film on menstruation four times and that disgusting film on birth at least three.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was quite a scandal when they married. She had no money and no connections, but at least she abided by the law. Not like your birth mother.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Instead, he descended into the structure’s basement—cold, dank, poorly lighted—to inspect birth and death registers kept there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Reznak, see that the prince and his companions are given quarters suitable to their high birth, and that their wants are attended to.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps one of them has given birth before, can tell her what to expect. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had always told him to beware the law behind closed doors, the yellow-toothed men behind silver badges who had been betrayed by their chromosomes and their birth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The birth of mass incarceration can be traced to a similar political dynamic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her age was a mystery, since she didn’t possess a birth certificate. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For such a seminal moment in a field that demands rigorous procedural records, the full circumstances of the cyclotron’s birth remain frustratingly indistinct. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I considered the year of my birth, and wrote: WE WON THE WAR. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Siblings are not however allowed to vow kemmering, nor keep kemmering after the birth of a child to one of the pair. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Overcrowding was becoming a grave problem, and this despite the fact that many of the does were re-absorbing their litters before birth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had by then shared with me the most wonderful event in my life, the birth of our daughter, Kellie. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come, let’s go to my house. I will ask Maman to make some puffs for us to celebrate the birth of the new Ruthie.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Since Aureliano Segundo had taken charge of the house those festivities were a common thing, even when there was no motive as proper as the birth of a Pope. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had to bring his birth certificate in to the League director to prove he was only twelve. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When the hour for birth drew near he said to the woman, “We must have someone to help at the time—some woman.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Southern California had recently given birth to an entirely new lifestyle — and a new way of eating. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z It was a girl and a very easy birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Belky tells him she has just given birth to a baby boy in Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It would be too upsetting for her to make this speech to her husband just before she gives birth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I tried, but I never showed a birth registration, and I need a new photograph.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Of giving birth or the stuff that comes after?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “They didn’t have birth certificates in them days. You were just born, and people accepted it.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “No,” said my mom, and then back at my dad, “We don’t have birth certificates.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I just, yeah. I just wanted to tell you. About my birth mom.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z By birth, he’s every bit as Jewish as I am. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the time they get there, Sien has given birth to a “very nice little boy,” and mother and baby are recovering. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He has a family name and a personal name given to him at birth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d wished to inspect one of the pregnant hounds, though he knew it was impossible to predict the outcome of the litter until she gave birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “In those of noble birth, virtuous behavior resides within. Others can practice and learn it, but the difficulty is very great.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Dionysius decided that the year of Christ’s birth should, thenceforth, be the year 1 anno Domini, or the first year of Our Lord. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, does he have a birth certificate or something like that?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In July, with Emma recovered enough from the pregnancy and birth to travel, she and Charles took the family to London for a week. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where are you going to get one? Is there a birth certificate shop or something?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, the Hole is a kind of sacred high place, where insights are birthed and clarity comes to visit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Princesse felt like she had helped to give birth to something that would have never existed otherwise. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But the relationship between Mary and Bernard didn’t even make it to their child’s birth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Born on March 13, 2001, in the birthing shed across the road, 534 and his mother were turned out to pasture just as soon as the eighty-pound calf could stand up. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This family is, like so many others today, attempting to grapple with the many questions and the moral and ethical issues that surround the “birth” of HeLa, and the “death” of Mrs. Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I counted the days and measured her progress as best I could and then sent word to a doctor in Staunton that I would need help with the birth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The same question, the answer to which she already knew, who had lived on the land since birth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Astrology contends that which constellation the planets are in at the moment of your birth profoundly influences your future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each gave birth to its own dark cloud. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There must be some gene that switches on at the birth of the firstborn child, and suddenly stuff like that starts to come out of their mouths. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She gasped several times and shook her head in disbelief as my mother told her about our trials and tribulations in attempting to obtain my birth certificate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Being,” said Mama, “that we lost Christmas this year, let’s skip the part we’re supposed to read and go to the birth of the Baby Jesus. We’ll take turns reading. You start, Francie.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z People called it when her grandmother’s assistance was needed—in a birth, maybe. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z At last, seven years old, I came to believe what had been technically true since my birth: I was an American citizen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In time, she managed to give birth to my oldest brother, Heritage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We all have the same beginning—birth—and we all have the same end—death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s worse for her than it is for me — birthing the twins near killed her. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Water surged across the once-dry floor of the sink, inundating farms and settlements, eventually drowning four hundred square miles of desert and giving birth to a landlocked ocean. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It seemed hard to believe that he was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women’s skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his “personal niche,” lost before birth and unrecovered since. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell the story of the birth of science, of its infancy, and of its extraordinary transformation into the great colossus under whose shadow we all now live. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ana Diaz, a student who, like Miguel, wore the insignia of the raised fist, observed that only rich women suffer from such pains; proletarian women do not complain even when they give birth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobias was his only child—and his only family, since his wife died giving birth to their second child. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Amil and I usually sleep through our birth minutes and then when we wake up, we stand next to the last mark we etched into the wall with a sharp rock. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He’d been working in the Ford River Rouge complex for the last five years when Ruth gave birth to their first child in the middle of a snowstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She’s referring to the complications she had when she gave birth to me, as if it were my fault I almost died and took her with me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z After chugging through a bit of math, he decided that the current year was the 525th year since the birth of Christ. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On November 10, 1966, Deborah gave birth to Alfred Jr., who she named after his father, Alfred “Cheetah” Carter, the boy Galen had once been jealous of. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On June 23, Cleopatra gave birth to a son, whom she named Ptolemy Caesar. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Since Hamlet’s birth we have lived in a stone cottage near the convent gate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “God blessed me with another child I didn’t have to birth or burp,” she’d say, and laugh. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z If somebody gave birth when Jaja first came here, the child would be talking now, would be in nursery school. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z All this says nothing of the fact that Prohibition was directly responsible for the birth of organized crime in America and the introduction of the American gangster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But women at sex hazarded birth and hence lifetimes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Two parents, contemporary pop and contemporary classical, gave birth to a child that was a perfect mix of them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The only babies I have ever seen right after birth are baby mice. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Or Lauren. I wanted to tell you first. But a couple of months ago, I went with Joaquin and Grace to visit our birth mother.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Autumn was born a few days earlier than expected, and I was relieved that we would not have the same birth date. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He used to arrive late to their accounting class with singular excuses—a cow’s lack of appetite, the difficult birth of two foals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grandma, please introduce yourself and tell us your year of birth, and where you were born. Then tell us an important event from your life. Specifically, your time during the war.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Anna worried the first wife might hurt her baby, so she returned to her father, where she gave birth to twins, though only one would survive the harsh winter on the frontier. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Another daughter and three sons followed, although one boy died of diphtheria shortly after birth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is the custom to have a ceremony on the tenth day from birth: this is the custom, and I had followed it for all my children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been asking to go for months, reminding her that Maria had seen a dozen births by the time she was my age. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I studied hard, got straight A’s, but nobody seemed to see that I was smart and had nothing in common with this monster, this birth defect. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She opens up the folder and examines the immunization record, the birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z More than likely Tisquantum was not the name he was given at birth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In November Malachy got drunk and decided it was time to register the child’s birth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “All this nonsense comes from the Dark Ages. We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For one thing, Dionysius got the date of Christ’s birth wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet the increase in births still outpaced the increase in deaths; humans kept having larger numbers of children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then perhaps there was someone who had known me since birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It had hurt her too much to be alive then, hurt even more to give birth to Jam’s mother, whose existence was the result of a monster’s monstering. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On everything from official census forms to sworn statements, she put her birth date down as 1893 instead of 1892, and she went on doing this for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the government had appointed someone in his stead, a chief is a chief by virtue of his birth and wields authority because of his blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles wrote to his cousin Fox telling him about the birth of their last child. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be the third consecutive year they had held their own private celebration of the birth of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I’m nervous, Nora, it’s a presidential election and the president gave birth to me.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They were arranged by their original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Pitipiti loved her husband and it made her sad to see his affection for her vanishing as he waited for the birth of children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The plan was for her mother to alter Zindzi’s birth documents to show that the girl was turning sixteen, not fifteen, and therefore able to see me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She confided in her when she asked her to write out the names for the birth certificate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side a man jumped into the water, trying to drown himself; on the other, a woman was giving birth, as her husband shielded her with his coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had a birth mother who wasn’t sure whether she wanted to keep her baby or put her up for adoption, and she needed a week or so to make the decision. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Some astronomers now think that a series of similar conjunctions at the time of the birth of Jesus may have been the phenomenon known as the ‘star of Bethlehem’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She bore twin sons to Poseidon—but fearing her father’s displeasure if he learned of the children’s birth, she abandoned them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I can imagine her straining her arms, pushing against the ship as if birthing herself from the bow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z So my birth certificate doesn’t say that I’m Xhosa, which technically I am. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It be like knowing you can always start again, that you can always create and make something because you are made for birthing. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “The law is very clear. All clones are classified as livestock because they’re grown inside cows. Cows can’t give birth to humans.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it had something to do with my birth order. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Helen, for instance, had become friends with Janis again, who had happily given birth to a son, Alexander, about Mona’s age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth of a son, the death of a patriarch—these events likewise affected the state of a household’s garbage. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She was not like other people, never was from birth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My first thought is that the bishop has already learned of Hamlet’s birth and has rendered a decision about my future. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Kapugen had seen them walk long miles in spring, with legs and ribs for the mothers who stayed in the ground with their pups for almost ten days after birth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “There ain’t no such thing as virgin birth,” Florence said looking down at the decapitated doll. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “If she writes a paper about any of that I’ll sue her for everything she owns, including her birth certificate. If she has one.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She learns to like and then to love the country of her birth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Then they move into the round grassy structures to give birth to their own young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost from birth, a child is taught the values of the Dinka, which my great-uncle had in abundance. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A century earlier, a similar political dynamic had resulted in the birth of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was not present at Ruth May’s birth but I have seen it now, because I saw each step of it played out in reverse at the end of her life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One woman was soon to give birth; perhaps that would happen tonight, and the others would attend her, muffling her cries and assessing the value of the infant. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The birth had taken place at home and, according to Mother, Emily had nearly bled to death before they could get to a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z No one had told her what “birth” meant. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For the first time since her birth, Ira no longer slept under our roof. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I fear this: that you will not be able to give birth. I think it has been taken from you.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We’re committed, as she gets older, to teaching her about her birth culture. And of course she already loves the rice. Actually, it was her first solid food.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You mean like you want to see your birth mom?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A meeting of the Rhododendron Society was announced, as was an evening of square dancing at the Grange and the birth of a son, Theodore Ignatius, to the Horatio Marches of Cattle Point. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Edith planned to give birth here, with the assistance of a midwife. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Papers? Wait a minute! Did any of you bring your birth certificates? I know I didn’t.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Our birth names were irrelevant, as were our past acquaintances and past accomplishments and past failures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Or rather my mother thought she was around that age, as there is no formal record of her birth. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z On September 9, 1931, a young woman named Daisy Nation gave birth to twin girls. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But what was proper for this child, fatherless and marked from birth? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I suppose we are. But that’s not the point. Grandma never knew her parents, but she wasn’t orphaned at birth. Her parents gave their baby to the nuns to save her life.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Women who gave birth earlier, when the infant’s brain and head were still relatively small and supple, fared better and lived to have more children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, when Tyler was born twenty months later, the birth took place in a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On the next birth, she used the bulk of her fee to hire a second midwife, to supervise her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Events in the years before my birth: after dancing with Zoe at my parents’ wedding, Father Mike pursued her doggedly for the next two and a half years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But Herod died in 3 BC, years before the supposed birth of Christ. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The princes’ efforts to breed cheetahs in captivity failed, and not until 1960 did even biologists in modern zoos achieve their first successful cheetah birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The information in books is not preprogrammed at birth but constantly changed, amended by events, adapted to the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No—Lillian was a lady, and a man with as much honor as Perrington would never harm one of noble birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Four months before my visit a very exciting thing had happened in this community—one of the females gave birth to twins! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She had learned, with Izzy’s birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We had Christmas there with my birth mother’s family and visited some friends. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Samuel’s hands were so good and gentle that neighbors from twenty miles away would call on him to help with a birth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "It just so happens, my sow gave birth to a litter of piglets yesterday," she said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z When I got to the line that asked for the place of birth, I suddenly felt the same suffocating fear I had felt for many years of being caught by la migra. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In ancient Greek mythology, the Three Sisters of Fate spin out a person’s destiny within three nights of their birth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But after the first year of marriage, First Wife had given birth to a girl with one leg too short. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z By the rules, a boy had to be at least sixteen to ride, but no one ever asked for a birth certificate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo had to cast two horoscopes, work out which seemed better to fit the life of Ferdinand so far, thus decide his date of birth and so predict his future. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She looked back with longing at the land of her birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Satan’s interaction with Eve can be seen as the archetype of the birth of rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For the birth of her beloved grandchild was just as the dragon had told her, the greatest joy and sadness at the same time. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The birth had left her too raw and tom to take him inside of her, as she would have wanted, but Doreah had taught her other ways. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And that a birth certificate needs a name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Reggie was a polite boy, and the son who’d already survived a few challenges— the concussions in football; that goofy, lovable awkwardness; the odd birth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Bands are the tiniest societies, consisting typically of 5 to 80 people, most or all of them close relatives by birth or by marriage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Ortizes had three teenage birth daughters and four adopted children, plus a constant stream of foster children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was soon evident that Clara was in no condition to spend her pregnancy in the country and give birth in the village, so they began getting ready to return to the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To go through all that and give birth to a shredder: it wasn’t a fine thought. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was very base birth, having once herded sheep in Thrace. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z She had helped at her birth and was the only one who really understood the child’s eccentricities. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was my mother, she had given birth to me, she was closer to me than I was to myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One woman who had just given birth lay where she was with her infant, too weak to get up. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I heard Father O’Malley’s sermon about how the birth of a baby transformed the world. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He answers that the INS has no records of birth or entry or naturalization for nearly three dozen of them and their families. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z You may think that of course Shakespeare must have known his own date of birth, even if we do not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like hundreds of women who give birth while in prison, Trina was completely unprepared for the stress of childbirth. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z During these five years she is almost constantly pregnant, and is fertilised within 60 to 120 days after giving birth in order to preserve maximum milk production. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She gets pushed aside when she’s disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, her beauty is gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Robbie stared at the woman, the girl he had always known, thinking the change was entirely in himself, and was as fundamental, as fundamentally biological, as birth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The other celebration, the Bengali one, is held on the closest Saturday to the actual date of his birth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not possible to give birth without touch,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Major Major had three strikes on him from the beginning— his mother, his father and Henry Fonda, to whom he bore a sickly resemblance almost from the moment of his birth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He trotted over and joined the game, and Runt welcomed him as though they had played together since birth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I grew inside a cow. Did she give birth to me like a calf?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their women died giving birth, and the newborns died too. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Given name, nationality, date of birth...she turned herself upside down. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At least, she thought, she had one new piece of information: Mia’s birthplace, listed as Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on the birth certificate next to Mia Warren. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The birth date on the card showed that “Janice” had been born just two years before me, though from his appearance, I would have guessed that he was at least ten years older than that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No tree has ever grown long enough to birth such a pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, the now thirty-seven-inch cyclotron gave birth to a powerful beam. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Healthy fat caribou cows gave birth to many calves. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was saying with his eyes: “Look at my hump, then. I have no reason to be proud of my birth.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One mud hut had a lighted window, and the vision of my dream swept me towards it to be witness at the birth of a baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 20, 1852, Stanton gave birth to her fifth child, a girl. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If you analyze the odds of being given away at birth and then losing another full set of legal guardians 147 months and 7 days later, I'm right on the edge of the graph. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Since birth had he ever lived in a home? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that she gave birth to me on a Thursday, the twelfth of August, 1937. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At the birth of the child, named Jinky, no name was recorded on the birth certificate as the father. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I only know that in my short lifetime I have done things which would have been considered clearly impossible in the year of my birth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful bay mare in the process of giving birth alone on the hillside. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After hours of waiting, someone was able to dig up a copy of my birth certificate, and they told Mr. Kamara to come back for the passport in four days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The smells of life and richness, of death and digestion, of decay and birth, burden the air. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The proper line, the one leading to the office responsible for issuing birth certificates and other documents, turned out to be longer than the other one, so we waited another hour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an event on the level of a birth or a death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Before his confinement in the secret prison and before his teacher and schoolmates began picking on him, Shin hadn’t thought to blame anyone for his birth inside Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That he made the mistake of entertaining an evil desire and that desire gave birth to sin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Less than a week after she gave birth, she was out hunting the streets for work. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When the end of the month arrived with no birth, Jody grew frantic. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Trevor, Jasmine, and Maya knew my birth dad was in prison, but not why. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Before he left for his month at The Lovely Condominium, Branwell had shown me a birth announcement that he had designed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the phoenix does not die, and monstrous births do not resemble their parents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z French reappeared shortly before the baby was born, but the months of worrying had weakened the developing fetus; Ann lost the child soon after the birth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During those early years of marriage, she birthed five daughters for her hardworking husband. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It took a few tries before a wisp of smoke curled up to signal the birth of a flame. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “The encoded numbers are followed by announcements, births and baptisms and engagements and deaths.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Soon afterward, the middle daughter gave birth to a girl of her own, and the celebrations were repeated. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z "Right after you was born. He must be a magician, because as soon as he heard the magic words 'birth defect,' he disappeared." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t seen any harm in doing that job for Trepid, except that he couldn’t locate a birth certificate so he’d had a friend forge one. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A doctor stopped Mother and asked why she’d been at the birth in the first place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In his stubborn ignorance, he had not even known he was being mocked; the carts were for eunuchs, cripples, women giving birth, the very young and the very old. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was wild-eyed, like a woman who gives birth to an unwanted child. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have seen barren woman give birth, stomach worm transformed to innocent babe, dragon defeated by a girl who appeared from nowhere!” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s true what they say, it’s a trance state, giving birth or being there, you lose track of the rest of your life, you focus only on that one instant. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Wall was no place for a woman, much less a girl of noble birth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And so he had obtained a Commonwealth of Massachusetts change-of-name form, to submit along with a certified copy of his birth certificate and a check to the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "I mean, I do, but she's gone. She passed away giving birth to me." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He had never imagined birth, would not have guessed at what it was like. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z North Carolina passes the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, requiring people to use public bathrooms according to the biological sex on their birth certificate. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Day of Sacrifice was weeks away, but there would be no more births in the ensuing time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I explained that it was customary to note down the witness’s particulars, such as name, age, address, and place of birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting fixed abode contributes to denser human populations by permitting a shortened birth interval. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are now led by men from Virginia, I am told,” she said, “land of my birth. I assure Your Honor that in Virginia, we do not tolerate the rebellion of slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They say she is desperate to birth an heir. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I had told the Blairs I wanted to follow one of their steers from birth to slaughterhouse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Although births are not exactly actions, they easily slip into the realm of historical facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reserve’s hungry, thin female tigers gave birth so rarely nowadays. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z "Men fish the sea, dig in the earth, and die. Women birth children in blood and pain, and die. Night follows day. The winds and tides remain. The islands are as our god made them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And, after only a year and a half together, even before Miranda’s birth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby’s birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He may have had something to do with your birth, but that’s it.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z People who taught me that no accident of birth—not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless—would ever define or limit me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With the birth of Gabriel, which occurred when she was five, her future was swallowed up. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The tender budding of our new year, the periwinkles and the jasmine, the soft, scented champak blossom, had yielded place to the fierce flowering jacaranda and gold mohur, before Ira’s time came for giving birth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only to insure the survival of one accident-prone small boy, but to insure my family’s survival, my own birth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z For they learn that in America, a baby cannot be released from the hospital without a birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yakov, would you be so kind as to tell us who killed you? Give us his name, height, and birth date, please, just so we can be sure.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ben saw his father looking over at him as though he was witnessing the birth of something wild and schizophrenic in the psyche of his oldest son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before her birth, her father was taken by beasts,” Jamison explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We gave it to Mr. Grant, who reviewed it, looked at my birth certificate, studied my report card, then wrote on the top of the form “7–18.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Folks is saying you birthed a set of twins ’round a year or two pass. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She was glad it was a birth announcement rather than a notification of a death. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The composer was Claudio Monteverdi and the new style of singing gave birth to opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Papá sent a telegram to Fito, my cousin in Guadalajara, asking him to secure our birth certificates and to send them to us by mail. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Soon Mother will send word of his birth to the bishop, who will rule on our future, but for now my delight in Hamlet overcomes any fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “He lost his birth mother. He learned how to ride horses, use and make weapons, be a hunter and a warrior. Had his first girlfriend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We had not seen her, nor did we know her family, and the marriage, in the second year after Sacrabani’s birth, was solemnised at her parents’ house without either of us being present. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The invention of airplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switch-over in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A short time after the birth of their daughter, the unexpected jubilee for Colonel Aureliano Buendía, ordered by the government to celebrate another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, was announced. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Dependents have to be under the age of eighteen. You’ll need to bring your birth certificates and proof of residency.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z To her embarrassment, she could not remember the baby’s birth name. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z However, one evening in November that year, shortly after the birth of my daughter, Lucy, I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty- five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her calves are separated from her shortly after birth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My friends were having children, friends of friends were having children, pregnancy and birth and first birthday parties were everywhere. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I really wanna be a Tiger or a Dragon, but my birth year makes me a Horse. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The guards were carrying him, feet first, like a breech birth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Because Sien is still recovering from the birth of her son and not yet able to pose, Vincent is working on landscapes, scenes from around The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mandy had never told me that fairies liked to go to weddings and births. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They had not been particular friends, just acquaintances and schoolmates who had happened to share a birth year. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One result of this act would be the birth of Robert Pilgrim, who would become a problem in high school, but who would then straighten out as a member of the famous Green Berets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They fudged the dates on my birth certificate so that I wouldn’t be held back for a year. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the end, I got my birth certificate long before Luke got his. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But, alas, there is no correlation between the date of one’s birth and scores on any standard personality test. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Christopher Columbus, an Italian by birth, switched his allegiance to the duke of Anjou in France, then to the king of Portugal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Long enough to watch the city of my birth recede from view on the road behind us as we rolled through the sea of wind turbines that surrounded it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I be a fine midwife’s apprentice now. I know about babies and birthing, singing songs and cooking chickens, crying and laughing and reading.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But while the replacement legislation eliminates the requirement that people use the bathroom for the gender they were assigned at birth, it keeps state legislators in charge of future bathroom policies. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Have there been any births or deaths in this family this year?” the taller of the two asked. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “And how should he know? He has not been out of this town since his birth.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He was forty by birth certificate and forty by appearance—but it was a healthy, well-nourished good-natured appearance of forty; one that automatically drew the teeth of the bromide about “looking one’s age.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z By being on the spot, troubles are seen at their birth and can be quickly remedied; not being there, they are heard about after they have grown up and there is no longer any remedy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The emperor sent curacas, special men to take a census of the number of births and deaths and marriages that had taken place during the year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z So after each birth, Mrs. Richardson had returned to her job, crafted the pleasant, wholesome stories her editor demanded, come home to fawn over her little ones, waited for the next baby to arrive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By the time the leaves started to fall she’d helped with a dozen births. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not long after I was born, everyone in the county pretty much suspected Momma had birthed me, the height of scandal in a place like Haller County, Kentucky. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Aside from severe birth defects, it was also linked to depression, suicidal tendencies, and bowel disorders. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Consequently, if humans cut down even one diprotodon every few months, it would be enough to cause diprotodon deaths to outnumber births. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For some it might be hard to tell which lines were there from birth and which ones immigrated from countless jobs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z As word spread in Seoul of his birth in and escape from a no-exit labor camp, he began to meet many of the South’s leading human rights activists and heads of defector organizations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Every American was a rifleman by birth, and one American was worth ten or twenty foreigners in a fight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He probably never knew his date of birth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like when it was going to rain or snow or when somebody would be close to death or birth. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How can you tell the story of my birth? Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Preserved Maya writing was similarly devoted to propaganda, births and accessions and victories of kings, and astronomical observations of priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Vincent sees his reaction but hopes that he will act friendly, if not for his sake, then for Sien’s, who has so recently given birth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The bad news is that they are told by Mr. Wilcox, compiler of hospital birth certificates, that they must choose a name for their son. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had spent the past week mostly on her computer, going back and forth between researching Melissa Taylor and researching teenage birth mom support groups. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Worries about the evils of alcohol were as old as the birth of the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I think my birth was a miracle,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a birth record, and I can’t afford the photograph. Not for a while. It took two weeks to save up the train fare...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Some months later, her mother, giving birth to Poppy, had died, too. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She drove to the birth in dark glasses, trying to peer through the waves distorting her vision. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Elton’s situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and without low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z All my children had been baptized the country way, within the first cycle of the moon after their birth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Mother, and of the many times she’d told me that antibiotics poison the body, that they cause infertility and birth defects. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We could set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Kepler had none of the advantages of birth which had given Tycho a head start in life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was true; unmarried girls, especially my age, weren’t allowed in the birthing area. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Ten days after our birth, despite the winter wind and a threat of being iced in, my mother took Caroline on the ferry to the hospital in Crisfield. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A memory rose like a ghost between them, and Kaede could see it just as the Queen did: a birth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A round-faced man carefully examined the documents and asked for my birth certificate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Lights overhead, bright and round, as at my birth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Lady Artemis does not discriminate by birth. All who honor the goddess may join. Half-bloods, nymphs, mortals—” “Which are you, then?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But Molly, as the daughter of a physician, understood that she was witnessing the birth of team science; a new paradigm of a research lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This last fact made it possible to identify the hundreds of thousands of California mothers who had themselves been born in California and then to link them to their own birth records. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But eventually he found their birth certificates and baptismal certificates. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there is a certain pattern to the births and deaths of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No way, mate. I was there when my oldest sister gave birth to my nephew? That’s hard-core.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was the only thing the women held in common—the sure knowledge of the pain of giving birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The authorities were given additional power over black people, as if they didn’t already have absolute power over our lives from birth to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. That’s just it. Mr. Hamilton, I’ve been at births before, a good many of them, but this is something new to me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Pilate had become extremely depressed and lonely after the birth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When she felt the birth coming, she thought that she had been hurt. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay awake at night thinking that she could die giving birth, and I would closet myself with Dr. Cuevas trying to figure out the best way to help her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “After you give birth, you take the pills again, until you're ready for the next time,” Nancy had said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My mother was only seventeen when she gave birth to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z These are the used sections—broken bones, cuts, bruises, mumps, measles, backache, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rheumatism, female complaints, hernia, and of course everything to do with pregnancy and the birth of children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So when Elizabeth arrived at Gower Street to help her sister with the birth, she had two patients to deal with—Emma and Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z You must have just been born, for I as yet had had no news of your birth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father, whom she scarcely remembered, had departed that way one morning not many months after the birth of Gabriel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Most kids bom with these types of birth defects have problems with their middle ears that prevent them from hearing, but so far August can hear well enough through his tiny cauliflower'shaped ears. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And naturally, as he discussed wells with Cathy, his talk was all of birth and child care at the well head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s very important to us that Mirabelle stay connected to her birth culture. But we think the most important thing is that she has a loving home, with two loving parents.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z While she was gone, Sarah birthed her baby boy in the 2,;8 cellar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same cry of futile despair he had uttered when Sissy had insisted that she had given birth to the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle was right in one respect: in a typical household in the Kenema District of southeastern Sierra Leone, West Africa, my birth would not have been cause for celebration. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Then late that fall, Farzana gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The 31 capsules for January birth dates were placed in a large bin, then the 29 February capsules, and so on up to December’s 31 capsules. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The reds and yellows of common flame warred against the emeralds and jades of wildfire, each color flaring and then fading, birthing armies of short-lived shadows to die again an instant later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The mutation in the hemophilia gene, which affects the clotting of blood, had likely arisen spontaneously in Queen Victoria at birth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So then, since no one was around to watch us and Nelson seems incapable of embarrassment, I brought forth a shameless pantomime of a mother giving birth to one baby, then—oh my!—another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But Nelson glowered, still waiting for evidence that my birth had not brought down a plague upon my house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you're between births, and taking the pills. Nothing is much fun. You don't really notice it, though.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Since its heyday as a planter’s mansion, parts of the house had been used as an army bunker, a birthing hospital, and a goat barn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stood and looked at the home of my birth, it looked sad and lonely. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They went off to find the Afrikaner in the barn, supervising the birth of a calf. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she had begun the paperwork for Luke, Mother decided she might as well get birth certificates for all of us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Hmp. Who was there when he couldn’t pay for a doctor to birth them? Who was there to grow them up in all the right ways? Who? Who?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z On this night, they drank to the birth of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother died giving birth to me,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Mom keeps all her important stuff locked in a filing cabinet: her passport, my birth certificate, her engagement ring from Dad, which she lets me try on. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Once I have given birth, I will give my child to some gentlewoman more fit and more deserving to be a mother than I am. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She had been indulged from her birth, but was not absolutely spoilt. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Regina gave birth to a second child, a daughter, and Louis’s urgency grew. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Gene signified beginning, giving birth, while bbeu indicated existence and growth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke was fifteen when he asked Mother if he could have a birth certificate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He worked fast, and as with the first the birth was incredibly quick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Jasmine had a blood disease since birth—sickle cell anemia—which can affect almost every part of the body. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z When a culture grows big enough, it acquires an elite, which needs to monitor things it considers important: money, stored goods, births and deaths, the progression of time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It tasted of blood and birth, and of the world upon which we had walked together for a little space. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z No one could prove he was lying since he’d been born on the home-house floor and didn’t have a birth certificate or social security card. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her disastrous birth experience, and her decertification, had been so sudden and startling that no one at the Birthing Unit had thought to supply her with pills or instruct her to take them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom explained that we’d left Phoenix in a teensy bit of a hurry, you know how that goes, and unfortunately, in all the commotion, she forgot to pack stuff like school records and birth certificates. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please, it’s enough for me to have to birth this baby. I don’t need to deal with him, too. We’ll call him when I’m ready to pop. I’d much rather have you around.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the birth of my son makes me remember. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We made up stories about how they’d given birth to monsters in attics. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a good reason to want to fight the Nazis: in 1941, her baby was killed when a German bomb hit the maternity hospital where she’d just given birth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A few days after the baby’s birth, though, Weylin called him into the library and gave him a new dress for Carrie, a new blanket, and a new suit of clothes for himself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Pap laughed and shouted, “Man alive! That ol’ dog done birthed three hunters! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Given the lack of previous investigation, it may have been inevitable that when Dobyns traced births and deaths in Lima he would be staking out new ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That evening, after supper, we all sat on the side of the mattress and listened to Mama tell us the story about the birth of Jesus and the Three Wise men who brought Him gifts. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The last boy she'd liked got her pregnant, left her alone, and took another girl to homecoming on the same night she gave birth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Would you not grieve too,” I said, “if the woman who gave you birth was no more than a handful of dust?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z With those heavy words, I bade farewell to Horatio, to the country of my birth, and lately the place of love and its companion, loss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Although Nabokov was the scion of a Russian noble family, he detested the class-bound servility ubiquitous in the land of his birth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His father, also called Edmond, was a prosperous businessman and landlord who married his mother, Anne Robinson, in a church ceremony only seven weeks before the birth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Sissy wanted the birth certificate to be in order. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pretty pigbaby, pretty piglet,” she and the mother would croon, fooling the ghosts on the lookout for a new birth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Last, the eldest daughter gave birth to twin boys—but alas, all was not as one might hope. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They had only one, though, after much effort; they lost a second at birth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Would you have her give birth here on the street, brother?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z TaShon, the last baby she birthed, was born with extra fingers. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson ticked off the box for an “informational” copy and filled in Pearl’s name and birth date, along with Mia’s name. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A woman who was also on the list was giving birth to a baby. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The couple remained together and two years later Ann gave birth to a healthy baby. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He heard the child crying lustily from the birthing hut and he gave a leap of delight when he recognized the cry as the cry of a male child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z A colt can trot shortly after birth; a kitten leaves its mother to forage on its own when it is just a few weeks old. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother, the woman who gave birth to me, the one who was supposed to love and protect me, almost killed me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A white doctor came to the home-house with his derby and walking stick, wrote “stillborn” on Day’s birth certificate, then drove his horse-drawn buggy back to town, leaving a cloud of red dust behind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Nothing as singular or as important had happened since the day of his birth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Somewhat to Dad’s disappointment, there were no twins or other multiple births. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z So one day, not long after one of Bristol’s mutts gave birth to a litter, the men all went to the barn to put their tools away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In it she carried our birth certificates, immunization records, and school papers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth, and reward others for a privilege they did nothing to earn? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s one theory I like that says in order to understand death, we have to look at birth.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done to my sweet country of Narnia on the very day of its birth?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Generose had managed to keep a part-time job as a stacker at a local drugstore for a while, but since giving birth to Alyah six months before, she had been unemployed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I know my date of birth: my parents told me, it is recorded on my birth certificate, my driving licence, my passport, and in all sorts of official records. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I need birth dates, death dates, marriage dates...Facts, Comfort, not opinions. If everybody reported the news with an opinion, who could we believe?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “So they finally gave you the birth certificate and the papers,” the principal addressed my mother as he returned to his chair. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At birth my new brother weighed only two pounds. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She told the midwife that the paper was to be turned over to the Board of Health immediately after the birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not with the big bang that birthed them, but with a whimper and a gasp. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then she turned to the pages where the family names were written in a long column with places to the right for dates of birth, marriage, and death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But to get things started he simply asked my name and address, my occupation, the date and place of my birth. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Gievers told me that foster parents are not supposed to have more than five children in a home, including birth children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Turkish hospital records list a total of eleven children who weighed over twenty pounds at birth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even if he weren’t, he’d been born in a birthing center, not a hospital, so there was no chance of an accidental baby swapping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, Mia, what is your place in the birth order of your family?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She met other women like herself who had been imprisoned after having given birth to stillborn babies. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Emma’s sister Elizabeth was still there, and she and their aunts had hoped that Emma would be healed by the birth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There she built her nest, ironed shirts, potted bleeding hearts, played with her cat, and birthed Louis Junior. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Three windows of the church have stained glass—the birth of Christ, Lazarus raised from the dead, and the teaching of those fool Pharisees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The first time Mother assisted with a birth she was gone for two days. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In careful tests, they are unable to predict the character and future of people they know nothing about except their time and place of birth.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The froth of quantum foam, the spontaneous birth and death of particles, might explain the origin of the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Despite the spread of HeLa and the flurry of new research that followed, there were no news stories about the birth of the amazing HeLa cell line and how it might help stop cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This is my sanctuary and these three—my birth mom, Sunnie; my twin brother, Mars; and the illustrious Freddie Mercury—are my spiritual guides. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He had not seen her since he was sixteen years old, until a year before the birth of his son, when she appeared in his city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z So I kept reading about shark embryos that snack on their lesser sisters and eventually devour other siblings in the womb until the fittest shark remains and the mother gives birth to only one baby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z What we need is a form of hindsight that does not impose itself arbitrarily on the mentality of the revolutionary generation, does not presume that we are witnessing the birth of an inevitable American superpower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One spiral gave birth to other little spirals, which coasted away, leaving burning grass in their wake. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “At night, I swallow the setting sun. I give birth to the light each morning.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Within hours of his birth, he had known how to run, and speed had been the measure of his life ever since. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her pregnancy had elevated her, so she could sit idly listening to the radiogram, no longer Mama’s help but now the woman who would give birth to Mama’s grandchild. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She had a theory that if the child absorbed such food before birth, it wouldn’t be so much of an Italian. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I shuffle through the papers—birth certificates, a marriage license, diplomas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the longest time, I didn’t care whether or not I knew my birth father. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He thinks, grasping for thought and reason again, of birth, and wonders, without fear, in a moment of perfect postcoital clarity, whether what he sees is some kind of illusion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In between these two low points of his birth and his success lay thirty-one dismal years of loneliness and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Of course we were born. We’re here, aren’t we? We just don’t happen to have any of those birth certificate things in our pockets.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Kira shifted her weight, resting her twisted leg, remembering the story of her birth, and wondering if she would have an opportunity to tell it here. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the way, though, he’d stepped into the fullness of his birth name—Barack Hussein Obama—and the complicated rubric of his identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yet it must, as a final step, be shared by the public in order for the birth to be successful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A duck gives birth to a duckling, not a moose. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She admired the fact that she was a Enrique’s Journey hard worker and a fighter, a girl who thrived when her own twin died a month after birth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On the tenth day from the birth he invited everybody to feast and rejoice with us in our good fortune. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The combination of mother’s milk and conversation transformed Blanca into a healthy, almost pretty child who bore no resemblance at all to the armadillo she had been at birth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z McGarrity didn’t fire them after the baby’s birth as he had planned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We do reflect the influences of birth order but, as the psychologist Judith Harris points out in The Nurture Assumption, only around our families. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Terrenon, that knows all births and deaths and beings before and after death, the unborn and the undying, the bright world and the dark one, will tell you that name.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z With the memory of her own birth pangs still lingering, she had knowledge now of what her mother had suffered when she, Katie, was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He must think that if she could be forgiving of what happened around Baby’s birth, she could be forgiving of anything. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He spoke at each birth, funeral, and wedding, as well as at unexpected special occasions like this. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall, she gave birth to a son whom she named Ptolemy Philadelphus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Of course, anything to do with babies and giving birth gave me pause. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There she would give birth to four children, my cousins, and remain for the next eight years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z To prevent such birth defects, Nazi doctors forcibly sterilized men and women considered too mentally or physically unfit to produce desirable children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The path had ended, but we kept running until the sky swallowed the sun and gave birth to the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The midwife came to visit Mother a few days after the first birth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The guardians of his republic, its elite ruling class, having deciphered the “law of births,” would ensure that only such harmonious “fortunate” unions would occur in the future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Your father had been taken by beasts. It had been several months since he went off to hunt and did not return. And so I would not give birth again. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the house might return, or the liquid black woman might wake or die or give birth or... Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived daily with the birth and death of every kind of animal, and we were expected to get used to it, or at least the boys were. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Under apartheid, the government labeled everything on your birth certificate: race, tribe, nationality. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Can’t I find out how my only daughter is doing? I’m worried about you. I gave birth to you. I will always care about you, no matter how many times we fight.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z However, I don’t know Shakespeare’s date of birth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was still fragments, some of it, though from describing it to Alys she remembered the birth now, clearly and with horror. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What happens if the baby grows up and wants to find the birth parents? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There was also a short article on rioting that the reporter claimed was “the direct result of escalating tensions between the West and East government on new birth legislation.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes, ignoring the forms from the hospital about filing for a birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dionysius was clearly wrong; today most scholars believe that the birth of Christ was in 4 BC. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I wondered if she had a New York license, and if so, what her birth date said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Nan had come to the castle as a wet nurse for a Brandon Stark whose mother had died birthing him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She usually chose to celebrate the birth of our Lord by going on a good long bender, one that started a couple days before Christmas and ended well after New Year’s. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A long line of studies, including research into twins who were separated at birth, had already concluded that genes alone are responsible for perhaps 50 percent of a child’s personality and abilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’d seen a couple of births on that cable-TV show, and people usually yelled for a while; sometimes they swore and it had to be bleeped, but it never took longer than half an hour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He provides a copy of Gogol’s birth certificate and immunization record, which Mrs. McNab puts in a folder along with the registration. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The birth order myth is an example of the FAE in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Villages filled with children and old people, midday meals to break up the workday, churches, graveyards, farmers selling crops, town halls with birth records, death notices. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was rumored, however, that Bellerophon had a mightier father, Poseidon himself, the Ruler of the Sea, and the youth’s surpassing gifts of spirit and body made this account of his birth seem likely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Voices on the phone, occasionally bearing news of births and weddings, send chills down their spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman returned several times, perching on our sofa again and again, describing the uncomplicated births of her other children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other children thought that it was the birth of her baby that kept her away. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I wait for him to absolve me of not remembering a mother who birthed me, a grandmother who saved me, friends who rebelled with me, and a suffocating fear I can’t name. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Genetics, he called it: the study of heredity and variation—the word ultimately derived from the Greek genno, “to give birth.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She was pregnant again and later that year, gave birth to Makaziwe, named after the daughter we had lost six years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to a second theory, the children had been identified at birth as the incarnations of some long-dead spirits. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At about that same time, Cleopatra gave birth to twins whom she named Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene—the Sun and the Moon. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She continued her everyday chores, helping with the gathering of plants, accompanying Alys to births and deaths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z By the time of Christ's birth, two of these early polities had become dominant: Pukara on the northern, Peruvian edge of the lake and Tiwanaku on the opposite, Bolivian side. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There couldn’t be babies without other babies who had lived an hour or less after birth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had died birthing her, and for that her brother Viserys had never forgiven her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They had been disgraced by her birth, and this was their chance to erase, once and for all, the last trace of their husband’s scandalous mistake. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Three birth- days had slipped by unnoticed and I was just past fifteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sairy whispered, “You remember Mr. Trepid said he’d take care of Dallas’s passport application and getting his birth certificate and all that?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I was there at his birth. I can vouch for him” said Scheer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I remember Salinas, the town of my birth, when it proudly announced four thousand citizens. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath that came his name, rank, and years of birth and death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The currents shifted, and she saw his birth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Including the year she gave birth to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In ceremonies of public worship, they have been moved, assured that their lives— all aspects of their lives, from waking to eating, from birth until death, all moments—possess great significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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