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“Within the tree the gravid womb swell'd large, “Stretch'd was the mother with the load, but mute “Were all her woes; nor in travailing voice “Lucina could she call.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Willie’s travailing wife sends him again and again to bribe the witch, who refuses cup, steed, and girdle.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Thee, Lucina, the travailing Mother haileth, a sovereign 15 Juno; Trivia thou, the bright Moon, a glory reflected.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

Regeneration certainly hath a travailing pain within it, insomuch that Paul travailed in pain till it were accomplished in these, Gal. iv.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

To relax the intense nerve or deaden the travailing brain would have been painful and grievous to him.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles