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

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

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

In a short time, "The heavy moil that shrouds the dead" was entirely removed.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay