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  • Half-starved and disgruntled, they came from both Boston and from the British ships in harbor, and nearly always with bits of news or descriptions of their travails, word of which would spread rapidly through the camps the next day.†   (source)
  • And just as it seemed the travails could grow no worse, the telltale fog of the Gas came wafting malevolently through the shattered trees.†   (source)
  • One day, after this travail is passed, you may return it.†   (source)
  • On March 18 Tex Stanton, who had endured and witnessed so much travail, received his final wounds.†   (source)
  • And the photographer Galen Rowell, a member of the expedition, wrote a book about the group's travails, documenting one of the most rancorous high-altitude failures in history.†   (source)
  • The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.†   (source)
  • The man, the story goes, has resolved to "swim across the county," and after some travail of walking in on his neighbors and scaling property walls and crossing busy parkways, he finally makes it back to his own home, which, to his desperate confusion, he finds locked up and deserted.†   (source)
  • Now the landlord can wring from us his moneys and care not for the misery he evokes, for indeed it would be difficult for any man to see another starve and his wife and children as well; or to enjoy the profits born of such travail.†   (source)
  • The sweat parties between the evening meal and evening study period had not changed since I was a freshman, and my classmates had proven as gifted in the arts of travail as our cadre had been.†   (source)
  • When I came to my cabin after trying to help Charley in his travail, Robbie was tying a trouble light to the iron frame of my sad bed.†   (source)
  • I considered myself an agnostic, emancipated enough from the shackles of belief and also brave enough to resist calling on any such questionable gaseous vertebrate as the Deity, even in times of travail and suffering.†   (source)
  • All women, he thought, from the youngest on up, seemed fascinated by his travail and agony.†   (source)
  • But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing.†   (source)
  • Lines formed in his face, and in those lines were the travail of the North, the bite of the frost, all that he had achieved and suffered   (source)
  • Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?   (source)
  • Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice.†   (source)
  • France seems travailing in the birth of freedom [wrote William Maclay].†   (source)
  • Once she reached its gates, the worst of her travails would be over.†   (source)
  • He saw him through his travail of celibacy and felt that he was guiding him into calm waters.†   (source)
  • Reed, who seemed older and wiser than his years, had tried always to take a large, philosophical view of life's travails, and this, in combination with a natural cheerfulness and a strong, analytical mind, had put him at the head of the legal profession in Philadelphia while still in his early thirties.†   (source)
  • How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the result of the black reasoning.†   (source)
  • They begin at my feet and rise along my body to my face, and then my dress is gone: I sit naked on the seat above the unhurrying mules, above the travail.†   (source)
  • He entombed himself in the flesh of a thousand fictional heroes, giving his favorites extension in life beyond their books, carrying their banners into the gray places of actuality, seeing himself now as the militant young clergyman, arrayed, in his war on slum conditions, against all the moneyed hostility of his fashionable church, aided in his hour of greatest travail by the lovely daughter of the millionaire tenement owner, and winning finally a victory for God, the poor, and himself....They stood silently a moment in the vast deserted nave of Saint Thomas'.†   (source)
  • God save this piece of Africa that is my own, delivered in travail from my body, fed from my breast, loved by my heart, because that is the nature of women.†   (source)
  • She will have to have others, more remembering the young strong body from out whose travail even there shone something tranquil and unafraid.†   (source)
  • Suffered the Indignities and Travails of this World for 42 Years, 4 months, 9 Days, and went to Rest at Last February 12, 1884.†   (source)
  • And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs.†   (source)
  • Bring the South back, save the Union, restore orderly government, establish the principle that force cannot win out, and do it with the least cost in lives and travail—there is the Lincoln program.†   (source)
  • So there were several days of mechanical progress over the water, the horizon sea rising to grip after a cloud like a crab after a butterfly, with armored totter, then falling and travailing.†   (source)
  • He spoke in the old-fashioned talk, and said with a full voice: "Sir, grant mercy of your great travail that ye have had this day for me and for my Queen."†   (source)
  • It was He in His infinite wisdom that restrained the tale from her dying lips as she lay surrounded by those who loved and trusted her; mine the travail by water which I sustained by the strength of His hand.†   (source)
  • They both bore it as though in deliberate flagellant exaltation of physical misery transmogrified into the spirits' travail of the two young men during that time fifty years ago, or forty-eight rather, then forty-seven and then forty-six, since it was '64 and then '65 and the starved and ragged remnant of an army having retreated across Alabama and Georgia and into Carolina, swept onward not by a victorious army behind it but rather by a mounting tide of the names o†   (source)
  • It is like a casting of fading bronze upon the pillow, the hands alone still with any semblance of life: a curled, gnarled ineptness; a spent yet alert quality from which weariness, exhaustion, travail has not yet departed, as though they doubted even yet the actuality of rest, guarding with horned and penurious alertness the cessation which they know cannot last.†   (source)
  • as he knew had never had any father but had been created somehow between that woman who wouldn't let him play with other children, and that lawyer who even told the woman whether or not each time she bought a piece of meat or a loaf of bread—two people neither of whom had taken pleasure or found passion in getting him or suffered pain and travail in borning him—who perhaps if one of the two had only told him the truth, none of what happened would ever have come to pass; while there was Henry who had father and security and contentment and all, yet was told the truth by both of them while he (Bon) was told by neither.†   (source)
  • Out of his travail he had climbed on stepping-stones of his dead self.†   (source)
  • For Johnson and Leach the travail of existence had ceased.†   (source)
  • Whatever it had been, it had left its expression of the travail of the universe.†   (source)
  • Come Lord, and gather of the fruits of thy travail and thy pleading.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL—ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND When Carrie reached her own room she had already fallen a prey to those doubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision.†   (source)
  • Woman must marry because the race must perish without her travail: if the risk of death and the certainty of pain, danger and unutterable discomforts cannot deter her, slavery and swaddled ankles will not.†   (source)
  • Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow....And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as, with startled eyes and lips parted in frightened pleasure, he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a richer rose the wakening wonder of his face.†   (source)
  • It should be clear that we are speaking about a husband's, a father's pity, about the act of birth, which Elly's travails indeed so manifestly, so unmistakably resembled chat even someone unfamiliar with birth would have had to have recognized it—someone like our young Hans Castorp, who, having never shirked life, now learned about that act of organic mysticism in this form.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, I may as well find in my heart for to forbear him at this time, for he hath had travail enough this day, and when a good knight doth so well upon some day, it is no good knight's part to let him of his worship, and, namely, when he seeth a knight hath done so great labour; for peradventure, said Sir Launcelot, his quarrel is here this day, and peradventure he is best beloved with this lady of all that be here, for I see well he paineth himself and enforceth him to do great deeds, and therefore, said Sir Launcelot, as for me, this day he shall have the honour; though it lay in my power to put him from it, I would not.†   (source)
  • With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.†   (source)
  • But she heard and remembered discussions of Freud, Romain Rolland, syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Science, and fishing in Ontario.†   (source)
  • Months of toil and pain and travail had not been enough to make him forget the strange girl he had loved.†   (source)
  • And when he came to the verse, "A woman, when she is in travail, hath sorrow because her hour is come", he missed it out.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Its beauty and sublimity were lost upon Carley now; she was concerned with its travail, its age, its endurance, its strength.†   (source)
  • I get up every morning and see the whole creation groaning and travailing in pain, as St. Paul says, and yet there am I, trafficking in glittering splendours with wealthy women and titled libertines, and pandering to the meanest vanities—I, who have health and strength enough for anything.†   (source)
  • For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface.†   (source)
  • "Accept this alms, friend," continued the lady, offering a piece of gold, "in acknowledgment of thy painful travail, and of the shrines thou hast visited."†   (source)
  • The dim forehead was crowned with a star; the lineaments below were seen as through the suffusion of vapour; the eyes shone dark and wild; the hair streamed shadowy, like a beamless cloud torn by storm or by electric travail.†   (source)
  • —What remains to you as the prize of all the blood you have spilled—of all the travail and pain you have endured—of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?†   (source)
  • She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.†   (source)
  • But owing to the superstition that the fewer the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince's household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished at that moment made itself felt.†   (source)
  • And when she was far in the forest she might no farther, for she began to travail fast of her child.†   (source)
  • Then said the fiend: Thou hast travailed me greatly; now tell me what thou wilt with me.†   (source)
  • Then Ishtar the sweet-voiced Queen of Heaven cried out like a woman in travail: "Alas the days of old are turned to dust because I commanded evil; why did I command this evil in the council of all the gods?†   (source)
  • Comparable to the throes a writhing woman suffers in hard labor sent by the goddesses of Travail, Hera's daughters, Twisters, mistresses of pangs, the anguish throbbed in Agamemnon now.†   (source)
  • Then I account her travail but lost; for though she had brought with her Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, Sir Lamorak, or Sir Gawaine, I would think myself good enough for them all.†   (source)
  • Lifting his eyes to heaven, Akhilleus cried: "Father Zeus, to think that in my travail not one god would save me from the river— only that!†   (source)
  • And once again the Trojans, overmastered by Akhaians and cowed, would have re-entered Ilion— But Heleiios Priamides, an augur better than any, halted beside Aineias and Hektor, saying: "You two bear the brunt of Lykian and Trojan travail, always, in every enterprise, war-plans or battle, first among us all.†   (source)
  • Wit you well, they said all, he had yesterday overmuch on hand, and he is weary for travail, and sore wounded.†   (source)
  • But in no wise Sir Palomides might not know what was Sir Tristram; and so after supper they yede to rest, and Sir Tristram for great travail slept till it was day.†   (source)
  • And then upon a day he said unto Dame Elaine these words: Lady Elaine, for your sake I have had much travail, care, and anguish, it needeth not to rehearse it, ye know how.†   (source)
  • Anon as the king wist that, he took the queen in his hand, and yode unto Sir Launcelot, and said: Sir, grant mercy of your great travail that ye have had this day for me and for my queen.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Dinadan told Sir Gareth how that knight in the black harness was Sir Tristram: And this is Launcelot that fighteth with him, that must needs have the better of him, for Sir Tristram hath had too much travail this day.†   (source)
  • Fair courteous knight, said Dame Lionesse, be not displeased nor over-hasty; for wit you well your great travail nor good love shall not be lost, for I consider your great travail and labour, your bounty and your goodness as me ought to do.†   (source)
  • Sir, said the knight to Palomides, that is me loath to do, for thou hast done me wrong and no knighthood to proffer me battle, considering my great travail, but an thou wilt tell me thy name I will tell thee mine.†   (source)
  • Then said King Arthur unto the damosel Savage: I marvel that your sister, Dame Lionesse, cometh not here to me, and in especial that she cometh not to visit her knight, my nephew Sir Gareth, that hath had so much travail for her love.†   (source)
  • But beware your love be not discovered, for an Sir Tristram may know it ye will repent it; and sithen my quarrel is not here, ye shall have this day the worship as for me; considering the great travail and pain that ye have had this day, it were no worship for me to put you from it.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, I may well find in my heart for to forbear him as at this time, for he hath had travail enough this day; and when a good knight doth so well upon some day, it is no good knight's part to let him of his worship, and namely, when he seeth a knight hath done so great labour; for peradventure, said Sir Launcelot, his quarrel is here this day, and peradventure he is best beloved with this lady of all that be here; for I see well he paineth him and enforceth him to do great deeds, and therefore, said Sir Launcelot, as for me, this day he shall have the honour; though it lay in my power to put him from it I would not.†   (source)
  • For as the French book saith, Sir Launcelot weened, when he felt Sir Gawaine double his strength, that he had been a fiend and none earthly man; wherefore Sir Launcelot traced and traversed, and covered himself with his shield, and kept his might and his braide during three hours; and that while Sir Gawaine gave him many sad brunts, and many sad strokes, that all the knights that beheld Sir Launcelot marvelled how that he might endure him; but full little understood they that travail that Sir Launcelot had for to endure him.†   (source)
  • Sir, she said, I marvel what thou art and of what kin thou art come; boldly thou speakest, and boldly thou hast done, that have I seen; therefore I pray thee save thyself an thou mayest, for thy horse and thou have had great travail, and I dread we dwell over long from the siege, for it is but hence seven mile, and all perilous passages we are passed save all only this passage; and here I dread me sore lest ye shall catch some hurt, therefore I would ye were hence, that ye were not bruised nor hurt with this strong knight.†   (source)
  • and that little needeth you an ye were a man of worship, for ye have seen me this day have had great travail, and therefore ye are a villainous knight to ask battle of me, considering my great travail; howbeit I will not fail you, and have ye no doubt that I fear not you; though you think you have me at a great advantage yet shall I right well endure you.†   (source)
  • we have been sore travailed this day.†   (source)
  • Fair knight, said he to Palomides, of me ye win no worship, for ye have seen this day that I have been travailed sore.†   (source)
  • And so she departed from Sir Percivale and left him sleeping, the which was sore travailed of his advision.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, wit ye well that there are two passing good knights, and great worship were it not to us now to have ado with them, for they have this day sore travailed.†   (source)
  • Sir Palomides, said Dinadan, ye shall not meddle with him by my counsel, for ye shall get no worship of him; and for this cause, ye have seen him this day have had overmuch to do, and overmuch travailed.†   (source)
  • But at the last, as a man may not ever endure, Sir Launcelot waxed so faint of fighting and travailing, and was so weary of his great deeds, that[1] he might not lift up his arms for to give one stroke, so that he weened never to have borne arms; and then they all took and led him away into a forest, and there made him to alight and to rest him.†   (source)
  • And they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed at one another; their faces shall be as flames.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She travaileth" in older English, today we say "She travails."
  • For I feel it, I feel it—infinite love is suffering too—yea, in the fulness of knowledge it suffers, it yearns, it mourns; and that is a blind self-seeking which wants to be freed from the sorrow wherewith the whole creation groaneth and travaileth.†   (source)
  • 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.†   (source)
  • 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.†   (source)
  • We listened politely, and I tried not to catch Jamie's eye as the Duke squeaked out the story of his travails.†   (source)
  • Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd
    The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,
    When lo!†   (source)
  • The man hearkened to her words for he felt with wonder women's woe in the travail that they have of motherhood and he wondered to look on her face that was a fair face for any man to see but yet was she left after long years a handmaid.†   (source)
  • 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.†   (source)
  • *cause
    Mine be the travail, all thine be the glory.†   (source)
  • Who heapeth up so many new travails and penalties as I saw?†   (source)
  • But not for that dream I on this strange course, But on this travail look for greater birth.†   (source)
  • This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.†   (source)
  • And when she was far in the forest she might no farther, for she began to travail fast of her child.†   (source)
  • Then said the fiend: Thou hast travailed me greatly; now tell me what thou wilt with me.†   (source)
  • 38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.†   (source)
  • 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.†   (source)
  • God safely quit her of her burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!†   (source)
  • Her care of me in my travail, and after in my lying in, was such, that if she had been my own mother it could not have been better.†   (source)
  • Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains To go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:— And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day's error Have suffer'd wrong, go, keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction— Twenty-five years have I but gone in travail Of you, my sons; nor till this present hour My heavy burdens are delivered:— The duke, my husband, and my children both, And you the calendars of their nativity, Go to a gossips' feast, and go with me; After so long grief, such nativity!†   (source)
  • Fair knight, said he to Palomides, of me ye win no worship, for ye have seen this day that I have been travailed sore.†   (source)
  • Check thy contempt: Obey our will, which travails in thy good; Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right Which both thy duty owes and our power claims Or I will throw thee from my care for ever, Into the staggers and the careless lapse Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate Loosing upon thee in the name of justice, Without all terms of pity.†   (source)
  • Good faith, I am grieved for you, That any chance of mine should thus defeat Your (I must needs say) most deserving travails: But I protest, sir, it was cast upon me, And I could almost wish to be without it, But that the will o' the dead must be observ'd, Marry, my joy is that you need it not, You have a gift, sir, (thank your education,) Will never let you want, while there are men, And malice, to breed causes.†   (source)
  • A blight is on our harvest in the ear, A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds, A blight on wives in travail; and withal Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague Hath swooped upon our city emptying The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears.†   (source)
  • 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.†   (source)
  • 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night.†   (source)
  • Then I account her travail but lost; for though she had brought with her Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, Sir Lamorak, or Sir Gawaine, I would think myself good enough for them all.†   (source)
  • 18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.†   (source)
  • For, Sir, I will not take a penny of thee
    For all my craft, nor naught for my travail;* *labour, pains
    Thou hast y-payed well for my vitaille;
    It is enough; and farewell, have good day.†   (source)
  • This satisfied the parish officers presently, and I lay in with as much credit as I could have done if I had really been my Lady Cleve, and was assisted in my travail by three or four of the best citizens' wives of Bath who lived in the neighbourhood, which, however, made me a little the more expensive to him.†   (source)
  • But in no wise Sir Palomides might not know what was Sir Tristram; and so after supper they yede to rest, and Sir Tristram for great travail slept till it was day.†   (source)
  • Wit you well, they said all, he had yesterday overmuch on hand, and he is weary for travail, and sore wounded.†   (source)
  • The deade sleep, for weary business,
    Fell on this carpenter, right as I guess,
    About the curfew-time,<33> or little more,
    For *travail of his ghost* he groaned sore, *anguish of spirit*
    *And eft he routed, for his head mislay.†   (source)
  • 38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.†   (source)
  • Anon as the king wist that, he took the queen in his hand, and yode unto Sir Launcelot, and said: Sir, grant mercy of your great travail that ye have had this day for me and for my queen.†   (source)
  • *plunder, pluck
    Then would he say, "Friend, I shall for thy sake
    Do strike thee out of oure letters blake;* *black
    Thee thar* no more as in this case travail; *need
    I am thy friend where I may thee avail."†   (source)
  • Then said King Arthur unto the damosel Savage: I marvel that your sister, Dame Lionesse, cometh not here to me, and in especial that she cometh not to visit her knight, my nephew Sir Gareth, that hath had so much travail for her love.†   (source)
  • 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.†   (source)
  • Fair courteous knight, said Dame Lionesse, be not displeased nor over-hasty; for wit you well your great travail nor good love shall not be lost, for I consider your great travail and labour, your bounty and your goodness as me ought to do.†   (source)
  • And then upon a day he said unto Dame Elaine these words: Lady Elaine, for your sake I have had much travail, care, and anguish, it needeth not to rehearse it, ye know how.†   (source)
  • This blissful regne [kingdom] may men purchase by poverty spiritual, and the glory by lowliness, the plenty of joy by hunger and thirst, the rest by travail, and the life by death and mortification of sin; to which life He us bring, that bought us with his precious blood!†   (source)
  • 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.†   (source)
  • Sir, she said, I marvel what thou art and of what kin thou art come; boldly thou speakest, and boldly thou hast done, that have I seen; therefore I pray thee save thyself an thou mayest, for thy horse and thou have had great travail, and I dread we dwell over long from the siege, for it is but hence seven mile, and all perilous passages we are passed save all only this passage; and here I dread me sore lest ye shall catch some hurt, therefore I would ye were hence, that ye were not bruised nor hurt with this strong knight.†   (source)
  • Nor neither our spirits' ascensioun,
    Nor our matters that lie all fix'd adown,
    May in our working nothing us avail;
    For lost is all our labour and travail,
    And all the cost, a twenty devil way,
    Is lost also, which we upon it lay.†   (source)
  • 5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.†   (source)
  • Sir, said the knight to Palomides, that is me loath to do, for thou hast done me wrong and no knighthood to proffer me battle, considering my great travail, but an thou wilt tell me thy name I will tell thee mine.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, I may well find in my heart for to forbear him as at this time, for he hath had travail enough this day; and when a good knight doth so well upon some day, it is no good knight's part to let him of his worship, and namely, when he seeth a knight hath done so great labour; for peradventure, said Sir Launcelot, his quarrel is here this day, and peradventure he is best beloved with this lady of all that be here; for I see well he paineth him and enforceth him to do great deeds, and therefore, said Sir Launcelot, as for me, this day he shall have the honour; though it lay in my power to put him from it I would not.†   (source)
  • But beware your love be not discovered, for an Sir Tristram may know it ye will repent it; and sithen my quarrel is not here, ye shall have this day the worship as for me; considering the great travail and pain that ye have had this day, it were no worship for me to put you from it.†   (source)
  • *submit, shrink
    "If thou be fair, where folk be in presence
    Shew thou thy visage and thine apparail:
    If thou be foul, be free of thy dispence;
    To get thee friendes aye do thy travail:
    Be aye of cheer as light as leaf on lind,* *linden, lime-tree
    And let him care, and weep, and wring, and wail."†   (source)
  • 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.†   (source)
  • Then Sir Dinadan told Sir Gareth how that knight in the black harness was Sir Tristram: And this is Launcelot that fighteth with him, that must needs have the better of him, for Sir Tristram hath had too much travail this day.†   (source)
  • 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.†   (source)
  • A woman travailing was her beforn,
    But, for her child so longe was unborn,
    Full piteously Lucina <54> gan she call,
    And saide; "Help, for thou may'st best of all."†   (source)
  • But soothly, when that a man is not wont to strong drink, and peradventure knoweth not the strength of the drink, or hath feebleness in his head, or hath travailed [laboured], through which he drinketh the more, all [although] be he suddenly caught with drink, it is no deadly sin, but venial.†   (source)
  • For as the French book saith, Sir Launcelot weened, when he felt Sir Gawaine double his strength, that he had been a fiend and none earthly man; wherefore Sir Launcelot traced and traversed, and covered himself with his shield, and kept his might and his braide during three hours; and that while Sir Gawaine gave him many sad brunts, and many sad strokes, that all the knights that beheld Sir Launcelot marvelled how that he might endure him; but full little understood they that travail that Sir Launcelot had for to endure him.†   (source)
  • and that little needeth you an ye were a man of worship, for ye have seen me this day have had great travail, and therefore ye are a villainous knight to ask battle of me, considering my great travail; howbeit I will not fail you, and have ye no doubt that I fear not you; though you think you have me at a great advantage yet shall I right well endure you.†   (source)
  • we have been sore travailed this day.†   (source)
  • And so she departed from Sir Percivale and left him sleeping, the which was sore travailed of his advision.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, wit ye well that there are two passing good knights, and great worship were it not to us now to have ado with them, for they have this day sore travailed.†   (source)
  • Sir Palomides, said Dinadan, ye shall not meddle with him by my counsel, for ye shall get no worship of him; and for this cause, ye have seen him this day have had overmuch to do, and overmuch travailed.†   (source)
  • But at the last, as a man may not ever endure, Sir Launcelot waxed so faint of fighting and travailing, and was so weary of his great deeds, that[1] he might not lift up his arms for to give one stroke, so that he weened never to have borne arms; and then they all took and led him away into a forest, and there made him to alight and to rest him.†   (source)
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