Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Old spellings of toil.
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Examples
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They rub'd and stir'd him up and down, and oft did toyl and ture
Archive 2008-08-01 Carla 2008
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They rub'd and stir'd him up and down, and oft did toyl and ture
John Barleycorn Carla 2008
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May 8, 2008 at 3:39 am dibble, bibble toyl n tribble cauldrun full ov kitteh kibble!
*POOF* - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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They who are perfect ought always to be desirous of dying and suffering, being always in a state of death and suffering: vain is the man who doth not suffer: because he is born to toyl and suffering; but much more the Friends and
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Good reason have the Saints to say, that Meditation operates with toyl, and with fruit; Contemplation without toyl, with quiet, rest, peace, delight, and far greater fruit.
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God, and that a Soul to be internal, ought rather to act with the affection of the Will, than the toyl of the Intellect.
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There is another entry for companyweb. toyl.com that is for http.
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or is dat to mix meta fours gilding teh liliesofthefield which toyl nawt, neederdodeyspin, yet ,Solol mon in allahs gloree wuz not adornded as wun ob deez…
Teh Ten Commanments of Ceiling Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The fairy-tale marriage of huff and puff followed the pairing of the two rhyming verbs in John Phillips’s 1678 parody of Virgil’s Aeneid: “And puff and huff and toyl and moyl.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The fairy-tale marriage of huff and puff followed the pairing of the two rhyming verbs in John Phillips’s 1678 parody of Virgil’s Aeneid: “And puff and huff and toyl and moyl.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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