foils
Example Sentences
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A Chinese expatriate in Paris, Zao Wou-ki makes a meeting place for yin and yang, feeds planes of pastoral stillness into moils of inner frenzy.
From Time Magazine Archive
An assent Would yield the Empire many years of peace, And leave me scope to heal those still green sores Which linger from our late unhappy moils.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Suppose the weary worker toils, For scanty pittance delves and moils; Am I my brother's keeper?
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
But unless one toils and moils like a beast of burden, one cannot even live simply, some will say!
From Ardath by Corelli, Marie
But his wife moils on in the same place.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
