What is "in labor"

Usage examples of "in labor".

Then she looked back over a sea like a long range of mountains in labor, white water from horizon to horizon except in the troughs between the great waves.

I have three women in labor now and what with the insurance thing I'm the only one around at the moment willing to deliver their kids.

They were healthy, quite free of an air with no factory smoke in it, and, which was most of all, their heart's interest was bound up with their skill in labor.

I was trying not to shriek, and I found myself panting like a woman in labor, attempting to master the pain.

Kathy was in labor for fifteen hours before the doctors decided to perform a cesarean.

If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways.

She showed her daughter, and we could see she was pregnant and she was in labor.

He did not mind tending the sheep and cattle, bending his back in labor to shore up rotten wood in fences, repairing roofs.