Example Sentences

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Kondwana, and Senzanga had travailed heavily since we left them on the night after the slaughter, in the elephant-pit on the northern bank of the Limpopo.

From Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Little did the first explorer dream that the day would come when individuals would claim private ownership of that which prolific nature had travailed through centuries to bestow upon mankind.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph

I wot not of the tribe wherefrom can come So fell a legion, nor in what land Earth Could rear, unharmed, such creatures, nor avow That she had travailed and brought forth death.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

She, too, sprung up, as if with the intention of throwing herself on the neck of her son, for whom she had travailed and sorrowed.

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir

He was filled with a pitying, passionate adoration of this beloved creature who had travailed and been impregnated with the suffering of the soul.

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert