Synonyms for family-way


Grammar : Noun


Définition of family-way

  • As in family way : noun being pregnant
Example sentences :
  • The princess became in the family-way; and the king was obliged to go to another kingdom.
  • Extract from : « Basque Legends » by Wentworth Webster
  • She is in the family-way, this summer 1737, a very young lady still; result thought to be due—When?
  • Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • If a woman in the family-way looks into the window, where there is a corpse, the baby will be dumb.
  • Extract from : « The Folk-Tales of the Magyars » by Various
  • Oh, in order that the overseers may not work the women in the family-way overmuch.
  • Extract from : « Pictures of Southern Life » by William Howard Russell
  • Mrs. Stoddart conjectures she is in the family-way again, and those kind of conjectures generally prove too true.
  • Extract from : « Mary Lamb » by Anne Burrows Gilchrist

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