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

But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed him.

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

Look here, Sarah, we toil and moil the whole year through.

From Yiddish Tales by Various