Example Sentences

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During the first six hundred years of the Christian era the woman had been "travailing" to bring forth a holy progeny.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

But the hour for which the whole cosmos had been travailing in pain could not be indefinitely delayed.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville