To be brought to bed

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	to be delivered of a child; - often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.
	See under Bed.

See also: Bed Bring

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BEd	To be in the straw

And now you see what she's brought me to--the sly, hypocritical wench"--Bartle spoke these last words in a rasping tone of reproach, and looked at Vixen, who poked down her head and turned up her eyes towards him with a keen sense of opprobrium--"and contrived to be brought to bed on a Sunday at church-time.

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