travailing
- present participle of travail.
Example Sentences
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We can, at the present moment, experience its stirrings in the womb of a travailing age—an age waiting for the appointed hour at which it can cast its burden and yield its fairest fruit.
From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi
With the rest of the travailing creation, she was groaning in hopeful pain—not in the pain of the mother, but in the pain of the child, soon to be forgotten in the following rest.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
Both are directly hastening the emergence of the spiritual World Order stirring in the womb of a travailing age.
From Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi
And at last she could distinguish faintly, far-away, as by some new sense, a murmur of the twilight universe, the never-ending moan of this travailing nature.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
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
