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OE Genesis A (1931) 2286 Þu scealt, Agar, Abrahame sunu on woruld bringan.

OE tr. Wonders of East (Vitell.) §11. 192 Þonne hy cennan willað, þonne farað hy on scipum to Indeum, & þær hyra gecynd on weorold bringað [L. prolem reddunt].

c1580 Howers Blessed Virg. 105 For then should I be..Now brought into the world, and streight againe outsent.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 126 Thy Mothers wombe That brought thee to this world. View more context for this quotation

1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 62 Those pretty Fawns, Prickets, Sorrells, Hemuses, and Girls..which I [sc. a Hinde] brought into the world.

1703 R. Calder Vindic. Serm. 10 I with great Reluctancy condescended to the desire of these Gentlemen to be the Mid-wife of bringing this once thought, abortive Child into the World.

1848 S. Bamford Early Days i I was brought into the world on the 28th February.

1888 Morning Post 12 Sept. Where men are brutalized, women are demonized, and children are brought into the world only to be inoculated with corruption.

1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xxix. 324 I still cannot understand why you have insisted on the new-fangled idea of having my grandson..brought into the world in the delivery room of a hospital.

1999 T. Gilling Sooterkin (2000) 21 ‘Get a hold, missus,’ says William Dyer, not wanting to peer too closely at the thing his wife has brought into the world.

2000 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 6 July 8 If you were born at the Queen Mary Maternity Home..chances are you were brought into the world, nursed or nannied by one of these women.