TRAVAIL in a Sentence

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Example sentences for TRAVAIL, such as:

1. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
2. Nor did Cisseus' daughter alone conceive a firebrand and travail of bridal flames.
3. How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?.
4. For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAVAIL
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travail
 n.  painful labor; work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort
Classic Sentence:
1  For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
2  She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVII
3  The very mothers now, the very men to whom once the sight of the sea seemed cruel and the name intolerable, would go on and endure the journey's travail to the end.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
4  Nor did Cisseus' daughter alone conceive a firebrand and travail of bridal flames.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
5  Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence:
1  How long do you think a man can endure such travail and degradation without rebelling?.
2  The provenance of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960) is perhaps less well known than the novel itself, which has come to be even less remarked upon than the legal travails and self-imposed isolation of the author who penned the work.