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Definition

a difficult experience — especially one involving hard work or pain

Much less commonly, travail can refer to a woman in labor during the birth of a baby.

a time of economic travail

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
Jack London -- Burning Daylight
Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?
William Shakespeare -- King Henry VI, Part 1
Here's the beginning of love at the end of our travail.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
One's own personal doings look small indeed, when faced with the momentous travails of History, which we can only trust are for the greater good.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Come Lord, and gather of the fruits of thy travail and thy pleading.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
God safely quit her of her burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
She will have to have others, more remembering the young strong body from out whose travail even there shone something tranquil and unafraid.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Though I couldn't claim to read the mind of a horse, I had the strange notion that this one was enjoying my travails.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
All women, he thought, from the youngest on up, seemed fascinated by his travail and agony.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But not for that dream I on this strange course, But on this travail look for greater birth.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
On March 18 Tex Stanton, who had endured and witnessed so much travail, received his final wounds.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
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.
The Bible -- Genesis
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.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
France seems travailing in the birth of freedom [wrote William Maclay].
David McCullough -- John Adams
Out of his travail he had climbed on stepping-stones of his dead self.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
Suffered the Indignities and Travails of this World for 42 Years, 4 months, 9 Days, and went to Rest at Last February 12, 1884.
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
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.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

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