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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

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

IX Amid Homeric moil and treachery the city of Shanghai changed hands, last week, falling to China's best detested War Lord, Chang Tsung-chang, called "Chang of Shantung."

From Time Magazine Archive

While light and darkness moil and wrangle, the wife makes her inner decision.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Thank'ee, Miss; I'm better; but it's only a moil of trouble, one thing as well as t'other."

From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony