"Moil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he had choice of angels and stars and a good woman, he'd choose the woman. The star is mighty far away and cold and steely. The angel's a deal too perfect to know sympathy with faults and blunders. I tell you, Little Statue, life is only moil and toil, unless love transmutes the base metal of hard duty into the ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor his ...
— Gathering Jewels - The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. • James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles
... hard on a fellow," he complained. "I'm always busy. And, fixed as I am, I don't see why I should grub and moil at ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper |
