travails

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Himadri Roy, an associate professor at the School of Gender and Development Studies, just published a book, Travails of Entrapment, featuring a gay love story.

From Newsweek • Nov. 26, 2012

The Market Travails of an ambitious Turkish trader.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

Suffered the Indignities and Travails of this World for 42 Years, 4 Months, 9 Days, and went to Rest at Last February 12,1884.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Dying, forlorn, in dreary sorrow, Wrapping the mists round her withering form, Day sinks down; and in darkness to-morrow Travails to birth in the womb of the storm.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy

Whereof three have beene formerly translated into English by R. Eden, whereunto the other five are newly added by the industries and painfull Travails of M. Lok.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus