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lie in

To be brought to bed in childbirth.
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he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery.

Submitted on July 07, 2010

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lie inTo stay in bed.
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