1. travail - Noun
2. travail - Verb
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
To labor with pain; to toil.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
To harass; to tire.
Source: Webster's dictionaryArt is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
The work of creation is never without travail. T. S. Eliot
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail. Julian of Norwich
Forget not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Thomas Wyatt
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. Mortimer Adler
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. Jim Bishop