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Example sentences for "travail"

Lexicographically close words:
trauma; traumatic; traumatism; traunce; traurig; travaile; travailed; travaileth; travailing; travaille
  1. From the travail of the suffering girl was born a woman--but not a mother.

  2. Passionately, with bursting sighs, she strained at her chains, wildly challenging the marriage institution which has slowly evolved from the travail of a thousand generations.

  3. Better than the calm of achieved indifference (if that, indeed, is possible to man); better than the ecstasy which contemns the travail of earth in contemplation of bliss to come.

  4. Fellows,” he said, “sen I come last fra hame In travail I was our land, and uncouth fame.

  5. He had been privileged to see something of the travail of soul by beholding some step into the Kingdom.

  6. He knows from experience that the salvation of these precious ones has meant much travail of soul and deaths oft.

  7. Yet, in these there is abundance of talent, of subtlety, and of acuteness—all in the travail to sustain a theory.

  8. The necessities of toil to the man, the pangs of travail to the woman, and to both a consequent abbreviation of the term of life, are all the effects of which the original speaks, and to which Josephus refers.

  9. And this attitude of the world towards the pain of travail has been extended to all the sufferings attending motherhood.

  10. Through the dim twilight the Lord clearly foresaw what was awaiting Him--the agony and bloody sweat, the cross and passion, the foresakenness and travail of His soul.

  11. Jesus shall see of the travail of His soul, and be satisfied.

  12. Bourse du Travail or a local or departmental Union of Syndicats grouping different associations.

  13. A Bourse du Travail is a local organization, not of any one trade, but of local labor in general, intended to serve as a Labor Exchange and to perform such functions for labor as Chambers of Commerce perform for the employer.

  14. It was the purpose of the new organization to secure twice over the membership of every syndicat, to get it to join both its local Bourse du Travail and the Federation of its industry.

  15. And now I see Norman Rutherford at the door; go and take counsel with him for your further travail and leave me to my meditations.

  16. At rest after the hourly warfare and deadly travail of a lifetime--I thank God.

  17. The long, languid, summer travail had ceased and the season of dreams begun.

  18. If in spite of terrible cares they had always conquered, it was because their love, their toil, the ceaseless travail of their heart and will, gave them the victory.

  19. A song of glory seemed to sound, glory to the source of life, glory to the true mother, to the one who nourishes, her travail o'er.

  20. Then if the same hap should chance unto you again, I counsel you to travail [trouble] yourself neither with Father Dominic nor our Lady, but to go straight to our Lord Himself.

  21. If there be an other world where they be set straight, there shall be some travail to iron out the creases.

  22. But God, the all powerful, Who knoweth all, and bringeth to a good end the travail of the just, suffered not that spears should meet in that encounter.

  23. But the world dims our fine gold: the minstrel is slothful, and singers forget to sing, because of the pain and travail which go to the finding of their songs.

  24. This travail I do for you alone; so help me God, for you, Lady, and your Son.

  25. It was thou that didst nurse me there at thine own breast, and now after travail and much pain I am come in the twentieth year to mine own country.

  26. There I saw Argive Helen, for whose sake the Argives and Trojans bore much travail by the gods' designs.

  27. And the most pitiful thing was this that mine eyes have seen of all my travail in searching out the paths of the sea.

  28. No other woman in the world would harden her heart to stand thus aloof from her husband, who after much travail and sore had come to her, in the twentieth year, to his own country.

  29. No other woman in the world would harden her heart to stand thus aloof from her lord, who after much travail and sore had come to her in the twentieth year to his own country.

  30. So spake I, and that fair goddess answered me: "Man overbold, lo, now again the deeds of war are in thy mind and the travail thereof.

  31. Then Odysseus of many counsels spake among them craftily: 'Friends, an old man and foredone with travail may in no wise fight with a younger.

  32. And there stood casks of sweet wine and old, full of the unmixed drink divine, all orderly ranged by the wall, ready if ever Odysseus should come home, albeit after travail and much pain.

  33. Mine is the travail of the idea; evil, full of pride and seductiveness.

  34. With confidence and joy I commend the story to all those in whose heart burns the passion for the coming of the hour when our adorable Redeemer shall "see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied.

  35. How many rove about the mark on every side: How many think to hit, when they are much too wide: How many run too far, how many light too low: How few to good effect their travail do bestow!

  36. Consider and talk together with these, And you shall find in your travail great ease.

  37. Once in my life I have an odd half-hour to spare, To ease myself of all my travail and my care.

  38. He is full both to chide or to check, And I am as willing to serve at a beck, He orders me well, and speaks me so fair, That for his sake no travail I must spare.

  39. Trust me, and have no doubt, Thou canst not choose but speed with travail and with time: These two are they that must direct thee how to climb.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bear; birth; birthmark; cast; childbearing; confinement; delivery; dig; drop; drudge; drudgery; effort; employment; endeavor; essay; fag; fatigue; fawn; flounder; foal; grief; grind; grub; hammer; handiwork; hardship; hatching; have; industry; kitten; labor; lick; litter; moil; pain; parturition; peg; plod; plug; pup; slavery; sorrow; stork; strive; striving; stroke; struggle; sweat; task; throw; toil; travail; treadmill; whelp; work; wrestle