With Child

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name = With Child
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author = Laurie R. King
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country = United States
language = English
series = Kate Martinelli series
genre = Novel
publisher = Bantam Books
release_date = March 21, 1997
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 320 pp (Bantam Books paperback)
isbn = 0-553-57458-2
preceded_by = To Play the Fool
followed_by = Night Work

"This article is about a mystery novel; for information about human pregnancy, see Pregnancy."

"With Child" is the third novel in the Kate Martinelli series by Laurie R. King. In the book, a teenaged girl is kidnapped while she was supposed to be in Kate's care. "With Child" is preceded by "To Play the Fool" and followed by "Night Work".

Plot summary

The stepchild of Kate's coworker Al Hawkin asks Kate to help her find her homeless friend Dio, who has mysteriously vanished. They become friends during the process, although Kate is wounded and decides to take a rest. She invites Jules on a trip to visit her lover Lee. On the way, Jules disappears. Kate realizes that Jules has been kidnapped by her biological father, recently freed from prison. The novel ends with Kate going undercover to the father's house and rescuing her.

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Synonyms:

Pregnant, enceinte, gone, sped, on the increase, in the family way

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with child — (UK) If a woman s with child, she s pregnant … The small dictionary of idiomes
with child — ► with child archaic pregnant. Main Entry: ↑child … English terms dictionary
with child — adjective in an advanced stage of pregnancy was big with child was great with child • Syn: ↑big, ↑enceinte, ↑expectant, ↑gravid, ↑great, ↑large, ↑heavy … Useful english dictionary
with child — Synonyms and related words: anticipating, big with child, big laden, breeding, carrying, carrying a fetus, expecting, gestating, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, knocked up, parturient, preggers, pregnant, superfetate, superimpregnated,… … Moby Thesaurus
with child — {adv. phr.}, {literary} Going to have a baby; pregnant. * /The angel told Mary she was with child./ Compare: IN A FAMILY WAY or IN THE FAMILY WAY … Dictionary of American idioms
with child — {adv. phr.}, {literary} Going to have a baby; pregnant. * /The angel told Mary she was with child./ Compare: IN A FAMILY WAY or IN THE FAMILY WAY … Dictionary of American idioms
with child — adjective Pregnant. I would there were no age between sixteen and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting … Wiktionary
with\ child — adv. phr. literary Going to have a baby; pregnant. The angel told Mary she was with child. Compare: in a family way or in the family way … Словарь американских идиом
with child — (UK) If a woman s with child, she s pregnant. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
with child — pregnant Standard English, and not just somebody left holding the baby: Once he had got a girl with child. (G. Greene, 1932) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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