Citations:travail


 * 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
♦ travail as a transitive verb, "to torment":


 * 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;"