| But round the throat of the still-born babe I tied a string of fibre as though I had strangled it, and wrapped it loosely in a piece of matting. |
| There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion. |
| With the ideological polarity of the cold war, the UN procedures for collective security were still-born. |
| They fell still-born upon the unreceptive soil of European culture at that epoch. |
| In his own ears it sounded like the still-born narrative of a debauchee. |
| The woman was a blowsy creature of middle age, who had had a long succession of still-born children. |
