Sample Sentences fortravail (auto-selected)
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Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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The travails of John Mallon Waterman, however, attracted less attention.† (source)
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Though Chacko was not a card-holding member of the Party, he had been converted early and had remained, through all its travails, a committed supporter.† (source)
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He saw him through his travail of celibacy and felt that he was guiding him into calm waters.† (source)
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He stood and I could see the travail of his spirit in how he took off his glasses and kept polishing them as if they'd never come clean.† (source)
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The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.† (source)
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Then said the fiend: Thou hast travailed me greatly; now tell me what thou wilt with me.† (source)
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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)
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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."
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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)
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She thanks God for giving her strength to get through the day's travails.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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