If she should encounter him now, he would be possessed by the demon of insatiable revenge; he would strike her to the ground and murder her cruelly, and mangle her dead body.
I'd as soon ask a railway-engine or a mangle to look after a child of mine, if I had one.
And for this body, he may dishonor it, mangle its limbs, but William Wallace may then be far beyond his reach.
You were brought with this shameless grant to mangle the body of the slain Cressingham; a deed which brought a stigma on the Scottish name never to be erased by the disgrace of its perpetrators.
They say it was a bloody cruel sight, to see how these English troopers did mangle the poor fellows.
About three years ago a mangle was sent by a cart from the warehouse, Regent Bridge, to Portobello, at which time the dog was not present.
North Back of the Canongate, and took Dandie with him, to have the mangle delivered.
Some goods come into the market with no further treatment after starching other than running through a mangle with a little softening and then drying, but in the great majority of cases they are subjected to further operations.
Rat-hunting would tend to destroy his tenderness of mouth, nay, possibly make him mangle his game.
It will fondle a human being as though its heart would burst with affection; but upon the slightest excitement--often upon a sudden sound--it will fly at andmangle the hand that was caressing it.
Had he been told that farmer Mangle was going all the way to Barchester, nothing would have induced him to get into the cart.
But he had said that he would not return to Framley Mill, and he remembered his suspicion that his wife and farmer Mangle between them had cozened him.
Farmer Mangle had told him that he would not leave Framley Mill till five, and he had got time to reach Framley Mill by that time.
The powny is so mortial good," said farmer Mangle in his foolish good-nature.
But farmer Manglewas still at the Mill, waiting in expectation that Mr Crawley might come to him.
He would have felt sure that farmer Mangle had been persuaded to pity him in his poverty and his strait, and he would sooner have started to walk to London than have put a foot upon the step of the cart.
To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
Then the old-fashioned, or the new-fashioned mangle is brought into play.
The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath.
By the afternoon, one feeding and one, stacking up, they were running socks and stockings through the mangle while the irons were heating.
We got to run the mangle to-night, but Thursday we'll knock off at six.
Running the collars and cuffs through the mangle was also Joe's idea.
I had previously told thee that, by my destructive hand, thou didst mangle the moral world worse than they did the flesh of their fellow-creatures.
They mangle the flesh of the living; and thou, by my destructive hand, exercisest thy fury upon the whole creation.
The Davis would mangle them if they ever dared go our way.
The first plant we gathered on the continent of America was the Avicennia tomentosa,8 (* Mangle prieto.
Gifted with immense power over tenderer souls, they entrap them and mangle them.
To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, tomangle a piece of music or a recitation.
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Character is the good old-fashioned roast beef of the table, which no one touches but to mangle and destroy.
Mrs. Hardy thought for a minute, and then said, "I should think that the mangle would do it.
I had thought of the great washing copper for boiling the sugar, but the mangle altogether escaped me.
The mangle in question was part of a patent washing apparatus which Mr. Hardy had brought with him from England, and consisted of two strong iron rollers, kept together by strong springs, and turning with a handle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
