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

Said the lean old man: "The Tremolin coal trust, c'est moil" Then Gardon led the reporter to his backyard to see the mine fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

In actual life, yes, in the moil and toil of propaganda, "movements," "causes" and agitations the statesman-inventor and the political psychologist find the raw material for their work.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter