Word: travailing
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...amount of ground to be covered is not lessened by the vacation, while the closing of the laboratories means that the lost work must be crowded in during some other period. As for the lecture courses, no great rest is involved in their remission, since the amount of intellectual travail assigned is not noticeably less. The student himself gets out of the normal organization of his time, without any great gain during a day that has more resemblances to a lethal Blue Sunday than a vacation...
Your attitude towards Indian affairs . . . smacks of the sickly sentimental ism noticeable amongst those who view the travail of a lesser people from afar...
...listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing a hat with a cluster of small white lovebirds in front. "He gasped with horror, pointed his finger, and said with utter kindness...
...trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost as necessary as the stocked brain in approaching travail...
...language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though the ultimate goal be Honors...