He was terribly set upon playing the piano and little guessed the secret of his inner struggle-the secret of the sad spirit that Travailed against itself.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
And so far they went, till they heard a Christian woman who Travailed in child-bed in a certain house whereby they went.
"Old French Romances"
William Morris
And Josephus in his historie saieth, that the continuall exercises of the Romaine armies, made that all thesame multitude, whiche folowe the campe for gain, was in the daie of battaile profitable: bicause thei all knewe, how to stande in the orders, and to faight kepyng the same: but in the armies of newe men, whether thou have putte theim together, to faight straight waie, or that thou make a power to faight, when neede requires, without these exercises, as well of the battailes severally by themselves, as of all the armie, is made nothing: wherefore the orders beying necessarie, it is conveniente with double industrie and laboure, to shewe them unto soche as knoweth them not, and for to teache it, many excellent capitaines have Travailed, without any respecte.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli