In the course of this affair I fell very ill, and my melancholy really increased my distemper; my illness proved at length to be only an ague, but my apprehensions were really that I should miscarry. I should not say apprehensions, for indeed I would have been glad to miscarry, but I could never be brought to entertain so much as a thought of endeavouring to miscarry, or of taking any thing to make me miscarry; I abhorred, I say, so much as the thought of it.

While they were thus deliberating upon our fate, we were imploring the succour of the Almighty with fervent and humble supplications, entreating him in the midst of our sighs and tears that he would not suffer his own cause to miscarry, and that, however it might please him to dispose of our lives--which, we prayed, he would assist us to lay down with patience and resignation worthy of the faith for which we were persecuted--he would not permit our enemies to triumph over the truth.

To say the truth, in discovering the deceit of others, it matters much that our own art be wound up, if I may use the expression, in the same key with theirs: for very artful men sometimes miscarry by fancying others wiser, or, in other words, greater knaves, than they really are.

Would not the prospect of a total indemnity for all the preliminary steps be a greater temptation to undertake and persevere in an enterprise against the public liberty, than the mere prospect of an exemption from death and confiscation, if the final execution of the design, upon an actual appeal to arms, should miscarry? Would this last expectation have any influence at all, when the probability was computed, that the person who was to afford that exemption might himself be involved in the consequences of the measure, and might be incapacitated by his agency in it from affording the desired impunity?

"There was always a chance I was going to miscarry because I've had lots of problems since my daughter, who is 16, was born by an emergency C-section," she said in a filmed interview.

In analyzing data from the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment, which included more than 500 couples from Michigan and Texas, researchers found that a woman is more likely to miscarry if she and her partner drink more than two caffeinated beverages a day in the weeks leading up to conception.

Every year sheep are killed, maimed and miscarry because of being chased and attacked by dogs.

"I am positive those pills made me miscarry. There isn't a doubt in my mind and someone, somewhere, needs to tell us why this was allowed to happen."

Mumsnet is calling on the Government to draw up a code of care for mums who miscarry and is urging Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to raise standards.

ALMOST half of women who miscarry have to wait 24 hours or more for a scan, and this lack of "human kindness" needs to be addressed, a survey has found.

They calculated that 77.8 percent of single embryo pregnancies that miscarried were growth restricted, while 98.1 percent of single embryo pregnancies that did not miscarry were not growth restricted.