moil

Example Sentences

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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

Ill-health having retired him from the moil of politics, he has been teaching law at the University of Colorado since 1917.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 New York Herald Tribune hissed: "L'Universite, c'est moil" On the bulletin board of Columbia's Law School appeared a scrawl: "Heil Butler!"

From Time Magazine Archive

If you think I'm going to moil and toil and cook for you down here as I do at home, you're mistaken.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert