2. Verb. (third-person singular of travail) ¹
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Definition of Travails
1. travail [v] - See also: travail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Travails
Literary usage of Travails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"Account of travails in Holland and Germany. First edition. Lond., 1694. 8vo.
Old cf., Smith, A., May 24, '20. (443) $12.50. An Address to Protestants upon ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"The whole Creation travails in Pain. The whole creation is, as it were, earnestly
waiting for that day, and constantly groaning and travailing in pain to ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"The whole Creation travails in Pain. The whole creation is, as it were, earnestly
waiting for that day, and constantly groaning and travailing in pain to ..."
4. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"... meaning to conclude his long travails with a certain victory, fearing neither
the peril which so many gallant souldiers throughly resolved might bring, ..."
5. Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish Nationalism by Moses Hess (1918)
"... Immortality — Rabbi Jochanan — Nachmanides — Messianic travails — Pater nosier —
Solidarity — The call of France and the rumbling of the reactionaries. ..."
6. Antitrinitarian Biography: Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of by Robert Wallace (1850)
"William Penn'i travails, 12mo. 1004, p. 213. Mon. Rcp. Vol. XII. pp. 440—464.
341. JACOB or JAMES OSTENS was a native of Holland, and Minister of the Church ..."
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