Definition of "toils" []

• Plural form of toil. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of toil. (verb)

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• "We rested from our mountain toils - toils in a double sense - in a beautiful valley twelve miles long, and from four to five broad, intersected by several willow and aspen bordered streams, tributary to Salmon River, which flows through the valley in"
• "The insatiability of the desire prevents that which is the only end proposed in toils, namely, self-gratification; "the man" thus gets no "good" out of his wealth (Ec"
• "Young clergymen have this way of falling, at sight, into the toils, which is vastly refreshing to middle-aged observers."