Synonyms for family way

Grammar : Noun

Définition of family way

noun being pregnant

Example sentences :

She was in the family way by Rion, but hid—it as much as she could.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon

I ought perhaps to have told you sooner that she is in the family way.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

Shooting is the quickest, but then hanging is more what I may call my family way of dying.
Extract from : « In Greek Waters » by G. A. Henty

Should party be in family way an easy confinement may be expected.
Extract from : « Bliss, and Other Stories » by Katherine Mansfield

May this pot of four half choke me, cried Costello, if she aint in the family way.
Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce

It began to be whispered that Mrs. Bassett was in the family way.
Extract from : « A Terrible Temptation » by Charles Reade

But during her papacy she became in the family way by a familiar.
Extract from : « Curious Myths of the Middle Ages » by Sabine Baring-Gould

This particular time grandmother Sylvia was in "family way" and that morning she began to pray as usual.
Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 » by Work Projects Administration

I stept down at my usual time, that it might not be known I had not been in bed; and gave directions in the family way.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

I knew two of those nuns personally, and I knew them both far advanced in the family way, in their own country, when I left it.
Extract from : « Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries » by William Hogan

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