Both Uses of
travail
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow….†
Chpt 3 *
- But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(travail) a difficult experience -- especially one involving hard work or pain