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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
travail .
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Examples
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It's no wonder that much like the troops in the trenches who travailed the terrors of World War I, they are laying down their arms and fleeing in droves.
Dan Ross: Lost Generations: The Importance of School Administrators Dan Ross 2011
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Over the hill we travailed until we saw the small steeple of the town's only church.
Sacrifice Hugh Barlow 2011
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It's no wonder that much like the troops in the trenches who travailed the terrors of World War I, they are laying down their arms and fleeing in droves.
Dan Ross: Lost Generations: The Importance of School Administrators Dan Ross 2011
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John Hyde so travailed in prayer, his heart moved its position from the left to the right part of the chest.
Fervency in prayer 2008
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She, too, sprung up, as if with the intention of throwing herself on the neck of her son, for whom she had travailed and sorrowed.
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And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
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And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
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And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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