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2: In carnal generation nothing is essential besides a father and a mother: yet to ease the latter in her travail, there is need for a midwife; and for the child to be suitably brought up there is need for a nurse and a tutor: while their place is taken in Baptism by him who raises the child from the sacred font.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Dismal had been the hour of travail--and she feared her mother's heart would have broken, even when her own was cleft in twain.— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
The English word travail, in the time of the translators of the Bible had this signification.— Five Pebbles from the Brook

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