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- noun Plural form of
moile .
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Examples
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Then she added apologetically "... it's jest a few few moiles droive from here".
Oh Christ I`m Related To Harriet Harman Newmania 2008
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The telegraph loine from Scott to Kearney runs just twenty-foive moiles beyant here to the southards.
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In the meantime, our Captain having taken two or three Spaniards in their flight, commanded them to shew him the Governor's House, where he understood was the ordinary place of unlading the moiles [mules] of all the treasure which came from Panama by the King's appointment.
Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols
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An 's'posin' he found th 'bum-legged driver froze shtiff on th' tote-road phwere he'd made out to hobble a few moiles on his crutch -- phwat thin?
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In the meantime, our Captain having taken two or three Spaniards in their flight, commanded them to shew him the Governors House, where he understood was the ordinary place of unlading the moiles [mules] of all the treasure which came from Panama by the Kings appointment.
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"It's hundreds av moiles from here Oi thought th 'professor wur this minute."
Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905
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He wants to go _jildi_ to the Padsahi Jhil '-- 'twas about tu moiles away --' to shoot snipe -- _chirria_.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'It's sartin to me he ain't within fifty moiles av us this blessed minute.'
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898
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But it is said that from that hyll there passeth yerely of that commodity fifteen moiles laden, and that those regions notwithstanding lacke sufficiency of that commodity.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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We mought 'a come twelve moiles, or we mought 'a come no more than six.
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