Laborious tasks

Usage examples of travails.

After our travails with the Old Ones, I was willing to head back into the Five Galaxies, and risk contact with oxy-civilization once more.

The combined torments of her recent travails and the Langothe's savagery had smothered her life-spirit until only a spark remained.

Coming on the heels of all her other travails, it was no wonder such strife had engendered a melancholy mood.

Without divulging the complexities of her past, he expounded upon her travails in the wilderness in such eulogistic frames that, listening with amusement, she began to wonder whether it was she he was talking about, or some stranger.

In the uncertain gloom, it was impossible to make out the three strands of hair that had faithfully served to keep open the Gate during her travails in the world of humankind.

Exhausted as I was by the day's travails, I was up half the night confronting the most sullen and difficult batch of rodents it has ever been my displeasure to encounter.

I appreciate your loyalty and can only commend you for your selfless desire to share my perils and travails, ill-equipped though you are for the task.

But his attention was still fixed on the travails of the tiny roly-poly creature.

Final destruction of the g'Kek, alone, would make our travails worthwhile.

My many travails in this land have made me unduly suspicious and quick to judge.