in labour
in the process of giving birth
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race. Winston Churchill
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour. David Low (cartoonist)
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. Alfred Marshall
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris she brought forth a mouse. Jean de La Fontaine