Citations:coil

English citations of coil

1. (English noun)
   • tumult, turmoil
     • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo

       near Rochester City, his mule threw him, dislocated his poor kneepan, raised incurable inflammatory fever; and the poor old man got his dismissal from the whole coil at once.

   • 1890, Robert Browning, Poetical works:

     
     Also hear Caponsacchi who comes next,
     Man and priest—could you comprehend the coil!—
     In days when that was rife which now is rare.