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are travailing

  • present progressive
    of travail.
    travail
    noun
    painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.

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How they make Lime.They have a pretty shift of making their Lime, when they chance to need it as they are travailing.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Robert Knox