Example Sentences

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I have groaned; I have travailed: I am weary.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Do not their mothers blush for such; to have travailed so much, and to have achieved so little?

From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by Saleeby, C. W. (Caleb Williams)

For the water-side—where we stand with those for whom we have travailed in soul, when for the first time they publicly confess their faith in Christ—is a sacred place to us.

From Lotus Buds by Carmichael, Amy

O earth! we have toil’d, we have travailed:    How long shall we travail and toil?

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

For the rest," he wrote, "when you have travailed and wearied your thoughts on all sorts of worldly cogitations, you shall sit down by sorrow in the end.

From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Coleridge, Stephen