moil

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Last week, he dashed into a moil of rioting Juliette Barnes fans to save Maddie when a shelf fell on her head.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2013

They say good-bye in another convenient tur moil of Zeppelins and searchlights.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scene becomes a moil of solo showing off, a gleeful choreographic cadenza that no choreographer could plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across a bridge and a pond is Erickson's most controversial creation: the courthouse, an airy, elegant edifice that opens the murky moil of the law to the light and the public gaze.

From Time Magazine Archive

For nearly two hours did they toil and moil over the narrow limits of that sea-girt rock—yet victory leaned to neither side.

From Erling the Bold by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)