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Definition of Turmoils
1. turmoil [v] - See also: turmoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turmoils
Literary usage of Turmoils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... during the year 1855, was as follows: plored, and the civil turmoils of the
country have entirely discouraged individual enterprise in those «quarters. ..."
2. Through South America's Southland: With an Account of the Roosevelt by John Augustine Zahm (1916)
"1 In the heart of the wilderness, far from the ambitions and jealousies and
turmoils of the rest of the world, these unspoiled children of nature were able ..."
3. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments by Addison (1797)
"... life the hard turmoils, ' The patriot's cares, the hero's toils, In brighter
triumphs end., ... turmoils ..."
4. Public Characters by Alexander Stephens (1807)
"He himself has frequently pencilled "the many-coloured scenes" of life, and has
been engaged in its toils and turmoils, as a soldier, a clergyman, ..."
5. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1874)
"In the тегу turmoils and anxieties of this lower state the Good Shepherd can find
for bis flock "green pastores" and "still waters. ..."
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