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
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
Facing the awesome grandeur and cruel humors of the weather, ancient man was forced to attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities.
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
It was this period of his life which Robert afterwards described, as combining "the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of galley-slave."
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
