Example Sentences

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Listen, O people, over whom my heart yearns, as the heart of a mother over the children she has travailed for!

From Romola by Eliot, George

Since Adam and Eve went hand in hand out of the gates of Paradise, the world has travailed under an infinite succession of house-hunts.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)