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  • verb Present participle of turmoil.

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Examples

  • This is a specimen of such internet scam or fraud mailalmost every internet user are getting - if we do care this issue seriously one day internet would the kingdom of such frauds doing their turmoiling activities to make fraud common people.

    SCAM GIRL 2008

  • Woe, woe, by what steps was I brought down to the depths of hell! toiling and turmoiling through want of Truth, since I sought after Thee, my God

    The Confessions 1999

  • Wedding-night will be ended, that she might carry up some water to the young couple, and have a feeling of those liberal gifts that she shall receive from the Bridegroom and the Bride, for all her attendance, running and turmoiling.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • Do but think now by your self what you have a mind either to eat, or drink; the first and worst daies are with the tossing and turmoiling passed by; neither can you recover any strength with eating of Water-gruel, sugar-sops, rosted Apples, and new laid

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • The restless little city, turmoiling in its boom, swarmed around us; we had to wait half an hour, our gripsacks in our hands, for the surface-car to the prison, three miles or more beyond the town.

    The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • What needeth all this travail and turmoiling (Wilbye)

    Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age 1888

  • Many times in the crowded din of the Living, some sight, some feature of a face, will recall to you the Loved Face; and in these turmoiling streets you see the little silent Churchyard, the green grave that lies there so silent, inexpressibly wae.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • Living, some sight, some feature of a face, will recall to you the Loved Face; and in these turmoiling streets you see the little silent Churchyard, the green grave that lies there so silent, inexpressibly _wae.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • But I think ANC still have a room for bitter people, who especially seek to self enrich them by turmoiling the whole process of transition.

    Muti 2008

  • Economic turmoiling is hard work, but we're in good hands, people-in fact, probably the best for working hard on economic turmoil.

    Shakesville 2008

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