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   Pains , n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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   And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
   Shak.
   
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   The pains they had taken was very great.
   Clarendon.
   
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   The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
   Dryden.
   
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