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Definition
a difficult experience — especially one involving hard work or pain
- They couldn't understand that the sort of meal they took for granted, a thirty-minute production in the land of General Electric, translated here to a lifetime of travail.Book 2 — Revelation (8% in)
- Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice.Book 5 — Exodus (47% in)
There are no more uses of "travail" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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