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And while the brain that was to rule France as a tribune-king, was thus evolving its idle progeny, the womb of a Corsican woman near him was travailing with him who was to be Napoleon!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

At that very moment, Douglass, looking at a picture that should have logically thrilled him to the core, was travailing in a morose discontent quite incompatible with his environment.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

"Now leave my bower, Willie," she said, "Now leave me to my lane; Was never man in a lady's bower35 When she was travailing."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various