261 examples of travail in sentences

"If a man will not turn, He will whet His sword; He hath bent His bow, and made it ready," against those who travail with mischief, who conceive sorrow, and bring forth ungodliness.

But all human stain, all trace of earthly travail, was hidden beneath the spotless mantle mercifully flung from above.

Gr. 607 A, edited by M. Treu, Ohlau, 1880, p. 29 ff.), who seems to have used Dio as a source: a) The mother of Augustus just one day previous to her travail beheld in a dream how her womb was snatched away and carried up into heaven.

If in spite of terrible cares they had always conquered, it was because their love, their toil, the ceaseless travail of their heart and will, gave them the victory.

Given an abundance of firewater and tobacco, Red Dog was the happiest Indian between the northern boundary of the United States and Lake Gary; deprived of them both he hunted vigorously, thinking all the while of the coming hour when, after a long journey and much travail, he should be in what was his idea of heaven again.

A churn or a cheese-press gives one the same deep, uncanny thrill of the terrible vista of time as Stonehenge itself; and from such implements, too, there seems to breathe a sigha sigh of the long travail and unbearable pathos of the race of men.

O foul corruption of base palliardize, When idiots, witless, travail to be wise.

Who would travail and toil with the sweat of his brows?

JOHN MANDEVILLE About the year 1356 there appeared in England an extraordinary book called the Voyage and Travail of Sir John Maundeville, written in excellent style in the Midland dialect, which was then becoming the literary language of England.

It had driven him with endless travail out of Niggertown, through school and college, and back to Niggertown,this untiring Hound of Heaven.

He speaks best on the present apprehension, for meditation stupefies him, and the more he is in travail, the less he brings forth.

When Foliot beheld that he said: "Lady, here meseems is great trouble come to us, for methinks something hath befallen my lord, and that he is in sore travail, for here is his horse without him.

"Great travail is created for all men, and an heavy yoke on the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's womb, unto that day they return to the mother of all things.

Labour for all, peoples of the world, each man taking pride in the work of all the rest, for the travail, the genius of the whole earth is ours also!

He knew in that moment all the pains of someone hopelessly and irretrievably lost, suffering the lust and travail of a soul in the final Loneliness.

However, the bodies here were not numerous, most, as before, being foreigners: and these, scattered about this strict old English burg that mourning dark night, presented such a scene of the baneful wrath of God, and all abomination of desolation, as broke me quite down at one place, where I stood in travail with jeremiads and sore sobbings and lamentations, crying out upon it all, God knows.

it seems unholy travail, monstrous birth!

"The woman thus situated had been for more than a day in travail, without any assistance, any nurse, or any kind of proper provisionduring the night she said some fellow slave woman would stay with her, and the aforesaid children through the day.

If, as honorable senators tell us, Maryland and Virginia did verily travail with such abounding faith, why brought they forth no works?

Groans and travail-pangs must continue to be the order of the day throughout "the whole creation," till the rod of despotism be broken, and man be treated as manas capable of, and entitled to, self-government.

Je sais bien que, dans le langage ordinaire, on dit fort comme un Turc; cependant j'ai vu une infinité de chrétiens qui, dans les choses il faut de la force, l'emportoient sur eux; et moi-même, qui ne suis pas des plus robustes, j'en ai trouvé, lorsque les circonstances exigeoient quelque travail, de plus foibles que moi encore.

The lab'ring Pile now heaves; and having giv'n Proofs of its Travail sighs in Flames to Heav'n.

"Shakspeare," said Dryden, not having the fear of Locke before his eyes, "was naturally learned"; but whoever is quite destitute of natural learning will never achieve winged words by dint and travail of other erudition.

It was a spirit of peace that was not of death, but of smooth-pulsing life, of quietude that was not silence, of movement that was not action, of repose that was quick with existence without being violent with struggle and travail.

"Laidly and awsome ye shall wane Wi' toil, and care, and travail-pain.

261 examples of  travail  in sentences