1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) viii. sig. BBiiii^v Some in myserie, oppressed continually, Wyth dayly moyling vexed sore..in fame obscure do lye.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 326 These men have..undertaken much fruitlesse labour in that lamentable moilyng of thinges which they have subverted.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) vi. 327 What brought first hunger and thirst,..toyling and moyling into this world?

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 205 After a great deal of moyling, turmoyling, perfidiousness, and I know not what, he laid down his head and died.

1853 H. A. Boardman Bible in Counting-house 75 Plodding and moiling may do ‘in an old country’: the only motto which befits an American is, ‘Go ahead!’

1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxvii. 2 Blesses them more in their resting than others in their moiling and toiling.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse xlii. 626 As usual a great moiling and bubbling of sand and muddy water was going on in the cut through the barrier reef.

1982 G. Godwin Mother & Two Daughters x. 440 The nauseating, unclean moiling about of all the family members in their ‘nuclear’ cauldron.

1992 J. Dickey Whole Motion 213 Looked out and saw something, a fish-flash An almighty fin in trouble a moiling of secret forces.

c1566 in Handful Pleasant Delights (1584) sig. d7^v The moyling Horse, that labours still, his burthen great to beare.

1608 Merry Devil of Edmonton (1617) sig. F2 We haue had the moylingst night of it that euer we had in our liues.

1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1198 Such moiling labour.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccv. 266 Oh the Endless Misery of the Life I Lead! crys the Moiling Husbandman, to spend all my Days in Ploughing.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund iii, in Wks. (1721) II. 81 That moyling Swain who ploughs the fertile Clod, Looks rarely to his Benefactor God.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 351 I am an abject slave, and a toiling, moiling..potter's wessel.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Miling, dirty and laborious—‘A milin' job’.

1897 Daily News 14 July 7/3 A good sprinkling of real moiling workers in their best.

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 55 Heads and shoulders in moiling silhouette against the lightglare.

1981 C. James in Observer 13 Sept. 40/9 It was plausible that he should draw first Farrah Fawcett and then Katherine Ross into the moiling toils of his obsession.

1991 Harper's Mag. May 55 I remember the first time I stood before it..the declaration of a halt to ourselves, a small promise to a vast, moiling jungle, of our absence.

1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 7 He runnes and moylingly trots vp and downe.