We travailed to and fro where the ways led us, according to their own Proverb, The Beggar and the Merchant is never out of his way; because the one begs and the other trades wherever they go.
He Travailed a Nights in the Woods without fear, and slept securely.
And other folk he suffreth to ben travailed with harde thinges, for that they sholden confermen the vertues 185 of corage by the usage and exercitacioun of pacience.
Jewish panic and profligacy almost prevented the Divine purpose, and Isaiah went near to breaking his heart over the city, for whose redemption he had travailed for a lifetime.
Then said the fiend: Thou hast travailed me greatly; now tell me what thou wilt with me.
Fair knight, said he to Palomides, of me ye win no worship, for ye have seen this day that I have been travailed sore.
And so she departed from Sir Percivale and left him sleeping, the which was sore travailedof his advision.
The apartment had a hermit-like atmosphere, although there could have been but little peace for the man who travailed as Carlyle did over his gigantic tasks.
Yet others did not fare the same, Who toiled and travailed there before, And of their hire might nothing claim, Perchance shall not for a year more.
Beyond th'old Pillers many have travailed Towards the Suns cradle, and his throne, and bed: A fitter Piller our Earle did bestow In that late Island; for he well did know Farther then Wingefield no man dares to goe.
As Mrs. Stott looked at her daughter tossing in restless sleep, the natal hour came back to her, and in memory she again travailed in birth.
He was terribly set upon playing the piano and little guessed the secret of his inner struggle--the secret of the sad spirit that travailed against itself.
There is no God, I had proclaimed; no God in high heaven, no God with the world, no spirit ever moved upon the vasty waters, no spirit ever travailed in the womb of time and conceived the cosmos.
Then said the fiend, Thou hast travailed me greatly, now tell me what thou wilt with me?
Fair knight, said he unto Sir Palamides, of me ye win no worship, for ye have seen this day that I have been travailed sore.
And so she departed from Sir Percivale, and left him sleeping, the which was sore travailed of his vision.
In this, Lethington helped not a little; for he travailed to have friends in every faction of the Court.
This he promised to do; and he so earnestly travailed in that matter, that it was once brought to a conclusion and agreement, such as caused all the faithful to praise God.
In England he had travailed for the freedom of the Earl Bothwell, and by that means obtained promise of his favour.
He travailed exceedingly to keep the Lords together, and most prudently laid before their eyes the dangers that might ensue upon their departing from the town.
In the negotiation of the Secretary Lethington with the Queen and Council of England, in which he travailed with no less wisdom and faithfulness than happy success, many things occurred that required the resolution of the whole Lords.
The Queen's Majesty is informed that ye have travailed to raise a tumult of her subjects against her, and for certification thereof, there is presented to her your own letter subscribed in your name.
The most worthy servants of God that before us have travailed in this vocation have so been styled.
These remained long in England, and so travailed that all things concerning the marriage betwixt Edward the Sixth and Mary Queen of Scots were agreed upon, except the time of her deliverance to the custody of Englishmen.
When the Queen received this answer, she was not content; and travailed earnestly that she might speak with the Earls of Argyll, Glencairn, and Marischall, and with the Lord James.
Harry the Eighth, King of England, had a great desire to have spoken with our King; and with that object he travailed long until he got a full promise made to his ambassador, Lord William Howard.
Before she travailed she brought forth; before her pains came she was delivered of a man-child.
For as soon as Zion travailed she brought forth her children.
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