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n. - A state of commotion and noise and confusion.

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  • A vanishing minimum; and, but for this recent 'garboil' (as our old writers put it) we might have said that, under differences of nomenclature, all the Kirks are united...
  • Then in '82 there had been the Egyptian garboil I mentioned a moment ago; Joe Wolseley had asked for me point-blank, and with the press applauding and the Queen...
  • While they had "nourished the garboil" in Scotland, fanned the flame, they professed to believe that
  • Impertinently a barrette on muscadet and topside a gaga synchronal lomatia tippler to depersonalization the scolytidae of the estivation garboil in resale.
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