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Travail   /trəvˈeɪl/   Listen
Travail

noun
1.
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.  Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency.
2.
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work.  Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat.  "They managed only with great exertion"
verb
(past & past part. travailed; pres. part. travailing)
1.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"






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"Travail" Quotes from Famous Books



... winning to higher ground, leaving, with pain and travail of spirit, the plane on which her twenty years had been lived. The past months of thwarting, failure, and heart-hunger had prepared for this movement, to-night it was almost consciously making. She was coming to the place where, if she might not have love, she could at least be worthy ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... astonishment they (in a lyrical burst) denounce her: her confession is the incense on the Victim's head, she shall feel the people's strong hate, and have an exile's doom.—Clyt. (calmly in Blank Verse): they denounced no such exile against Agamemnon when he sacrificed her daughter, the first of her travail pangs. Besides, are they sure they are the stronger? Perchance, though old, they may yet have to learn.—Chorus (in a similar lyrical burst): she is now maddened with the spirit of vengeance, but she ...
— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton

... take [his] lodging, Ere I in this find peace or quietness; Or that Love, or my Lady, right wisely, Leave to conspire against me wrongfully. And if I have, after such bitterness, One drop of sweet, my mouth is out of taste, That all my trust and travail ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... as a reformer began to outrun his judgment as an artist, and his later books partake more of the nature of active propaganda than of works of fiction. They comprise two series: Les Trois Villes (Lourdes, Paris, Rome) and Les Quatre Evangiles, of which only three (Fecondite, Travail, and Verite) were written before the author's death. Politics had begun to occupy his attention, and from 1896 onwards he increasingly interested himself in the Jewish question which culminated in the Dreyfus case. His sense of justice, ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous


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