Wiktionary
n. Any of the repetitive spasms of pain associated with labour
Usage examples of "birth pang".
Hari had time to marvel at how accidents of the universal birth pang had shaped these serene geometries, like exhibits in some gods Euclidean museum of the mind.
Hari had time to marvel at how accidents of the universal birth pang had shaped these serene geometries, like exhibits in some god’.
Hari had time to marvel at how accidents of the universal birth pang had shaped these serene geometries, like exhibits in some god's Euclidean museum of the mind.
Sapientia's sniveling ceased and, once a birth pang had passed, she grasped the king's hands in her own.
But here, as on Earth, the death of a major religion was the birth pang of a new one.
It is not easy to stop there, when there are other stories in the volume to talk about, and I remember so well every birth pang, every cranky teething through the typewriter.