The voice of the Travailing earth played on her strung nerves as if they had been banjo-strings.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
"Only you must positively write this book which everybody wants-this book which will do justice to the share our 'worthy fellow-labourers' have had in the groaning and Travailing of the world towards the birth of the right and fair.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Alert to seize every opportunity which the revolutions of the wheel of destiny within their Faith offers them, and undismayed by the prospect of spasmodic convulsions that must sooner or later fatally affect those who have refused to embrace its light, they, and those who will labor after them, must press forward until the processes now set in motion will have each spent its force and contributed its share towards the birth of the Order now stirring in the womb of a Travailing age.
"The Advent of Divine Justice"
Shoghi Effendi