brought-to-bed

Updated: May 10, 2025

"Aweel, Ellangowan," she said, "wad it no hae been a bonnie thing, an the leddy had been brought-to-bed, and me at the fair o' Drumshourloch, no kenning, nor dreaming a word about it? Ay, or 'said Saint Colme's charm for its sake, the dear?" And without waiting an answer she began to sing.

Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering

"You need not upbraid me with that, mother," cries Molly; "you yourself was brought-to-bed of sister there, within a week after you was married." "Yes, hussy," answered the enraged mother, "so I was, and what was the mighty matter of that?

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling