What is "moils"

Usage examples of "moils".

W’d thae be th^ simplest solution, an‘ avoid all of Sten’s moils, toils, an’ machinations?

He had once been imprisoned there, as part of the twisting moils of the Hakone plot, with most of the Gurkhas.

So, on the ovarian trolley there was this voyage of man and bull-frog composed of identical stuff, neither better nor less than Dante but infinitely different, the one not knowing precisely the meaning of anything, the other knowing too precisely the meaning of everything, hence both lost and confused through beginnings and endings, finally to be deposited at Java or India Street, Greenpoint, there to be carried back into the current of life, so-called, by a couple of sawdust moils with twitching ovaries of the well-known gastropod variety.