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- verb Present participle of
moil .
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Examples
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Can't you picture her, this wild woods creature, quick with every old primitive instinct, yearning for the free open, and mowed up in a vile little hash-joint and toiling and moiling for four mortal years?
The Night-Born 2010
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He saw the little patio, and his mother cooking and moiling at crude housekeeping and finding time to caress and love him.
The Mexican 2010
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Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you?
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you?
Remember To Live! a Cautionary Essay by Michael Pastore 2009
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He studied with Thomas Hart Benton, the populist purveyor of "" Okie baroque, '' and turned out moiling brown paintings remarkably similar to van Gogh's early work.
Tortured Souls 2008
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Do people stay up all night moiling over such bullshit in endeavor to fool us?
It's the WAR, Stupid 2008
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I was a true bookworm and early on devoured everything I could read on the subject, so those ideas have been moiling around in my head for several decades.
Loaded Questions: "The Wich's Trinity" Author, Erika Mailman 2007
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I was a true bookworm and early on devoured everything I could read on the subject, so those ideas have been moiling around in my head for several decades.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Give up your gold-hunting, and toiling and moiling after honor and glory, and copy us.
Westward Ho! 2007
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It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.
bilby commented on the word moiling
"Being an American I had to kill. No self-respecting Dice Man could honestly write down options day after day without including a murder or a real rape. I did, in fact, begin to include as a long shot the rape of some randomly selected female, but the dice ignored it. Reluctantly, timidly, with my old friend dread reborn and moiling in my guts, I also created a long-shot option of 'murdering someone.' I gave it only once chance in thirty-six (snake eyes) and three, four times spread out over a year the Die ignored it, but then, one lovely Indian Summer day, with the birds twittering outside in the bushes of my newly rented Catskill farmhouse, the autumn leaves blowing and blinding in the sun and a little beagle puppy I'd just been given wagging his tail at my feet, the Die, given ten different options of varying probabilities, dropped double ones: snake eyes: 'I will try to murder someone.'"
- 'The Dice Man', Luke Rhinehart.
February 4, 2008