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  • noun Plural form of moil.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moil.

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Examples

  • He said that the debris field was about 700 moils off the coast.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2009 2009

  • But, she didn't realize that moils, the official circumciser, that's all they do.

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: Harold Ramis Goes from Ghostbusting To Getting Primitive Directing Year One 2009

  • It won Ismenias, as he [4983] confesseth, Ismene subrisit amatorium, Ismene smiled so lovingly the second time I saw her, that I could not choose but admire her: and Galla's sweet smile quite overcame [4984] Faustus the shepherd, Me aspiciens moils blande subrisit ocellis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • ANDERSON: All you're having is you have strong moils top of fat.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2006 2006

  • Tappan moils for gold, sometimes abandoning the burro.

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • And I worked and groaned, saying: 'I will be a good man, and burn nothing, nor utter aught unseemly, nor debauch myself, but choke back the blasphemies that Those Others shriek through my throat, and build and build, with moils and groans.'

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • —All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

    A Sign-Seeker 1898

  • But unless one toils and moils like a beast of burden, one cannot even live simply, some will say!

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • The whole human race toils and moils, straining and energising, doing and suffering things multitudinous and unspeakable under the sun, in order that like the aloe-tree it may once in a hundred years produce a flower.

    Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880

  • To him it seemed an evil world, full of crimes, of moils, of deceits, of abominations; the Church seemed corrupt, venal, shameless, and Rome the centre and the soul of this accursed world.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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