2. Verb. (third-person singular of toil) ¹
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Definition of Toils
1. toil [v] - See also: toil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toils
Literary usage of Toils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1881)
"CHAPTER X THE PRINCE IN THE toils WE left John Canty dragging the rightful prince
into Offal Court, with a noisy and delighted mob at his heels. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"What make you here from aid so far, 470 Before you walls, around you war ?
That in the toils the lion 's caught. Tour foemen triumph in the thought Already ..."
3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1853)
"Expensive charities.—The Griffiths and the " Monthly Review."- toils of a literary
hack.—Rupture with the Griffiths. ..."
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