Travail

Definition

travail /'træveÇl, trǝ'veÇl/ n [U,C usu pl ] ( arch or rhet ) ဒုကၡသုကၡ။ ေဝဒနာ။ the country's economic travails.

Examples

1. ‘Springsteen often follows a songwriting strategy that dates back to songs such as ‘Badlands’
2. with verses full of travail
3. and choruses that ring with optimism.’
4. ‘Today I'm just enormously grateful that such things exist and can be called upon in times of travail.’
5. ‘And let our hearts be stout
6. to wait out the long travail
7. to bear sorrows that may come
8. to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.’
9. ‘The pathos of the Satrean autodidact resides in the nature of his ‘appeal’
10. the gaze for which he stages his behaviour
11. the symbolic Big Other to which he submits his uncomplaining travail.’
12. ‘These included the publication of De Profundis
13. the issue of a twelve-volume edition of Wilde's collected works
14. and Ross's enormous travail for the benefaction of Wilde's orphaned sons.’
15. ‘A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow.’
16. ‘Anesthetics and antiseptics have manacled the demon pain
17. and the curse of travail has been lifted from the soul of women.’
18. ‘Our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us
19. and pain
20. as of a woman in travail.’
21. ‘Paul knew he had to labour like a woman weary after hours of labour pains to effect new life in people: ‘I travail again in birth.’’
22. ‘And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed
23. and she had hard labour.’