Citations:travail
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English citations of travail
| 1678 | |||||||
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- The man whose picture this is, is one of a thousand; he can beget children [1 Cor. 4:15], travail in birth with children [Gal. 4:19], and nurse them himself when they are born.
Middle English citations of travail[edit]
♦ travail as a transitive verb, "to torment":
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- 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XV, Chapter i, leaf 328v
- […] & with that they sawe in an hydous fygure & horryble / that there was no man soo hard herted nor soo hard but he shold haue ben aferd / Thenne saide the fende thow hast trauaylled me gretely /
- " […] and with that they saw in an hideous figure and horrible, that there was no man so hard-hearted nor so hard but he should have been afeard. Then said the fiend: Thou hast travailed me greatly;"