Meanings of mental travail in English

Ossipon sat rigid, with the abstracted gaze of mental travail.

And across his mental travail floated another thought that brought him up all standing.

Was this the only meaning of life, she asked herself, this soothing of imagined mental travail?

He was a close impenetrable being, in whom there seemed always to be some active, dangerous mental travail taking place.

With much bodily toil and mental travail he wrote the decree upon half a sheet of foolscap, and then copied it upon the other.

She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.

Old Don Miguel Farrel had observed signs of mental travail in Pablo for a month past, and was at a loss to account for them.

"Zzzzzz," the Wise Man said, having dozed off after so much mental travail.