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mangle

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Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.

They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.

In a laundry visited when the boss was out, we conferred with the engineer about one particularly bad mangle.

MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATT

The reason for the low wages listed for mangle work seems to lie only in nationality.

MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATT

From the folders the sheets are carried away to a mangle, where they are folded over again by young girls.

MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATT

When he caught a rabbit, he smashed it flat in sheer fury, as if he cared more to mangle than to eat.

KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS

I sympathized rather with the winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of the day.

CAPE CODHENRY D. THOREAU

I had thought of the great washing copper for boiling the sugar, but the mangle altogether escaped me.

Do we ever see ferocious beasts of the same species mangle and destroy one another without profit?

GOOD SENSEPAUL HENRI THIRY, BARON D'HOLBACH

Mrs. Wagstaffe, for instance, she never has no more than five days, and on the sixth she's back at her mangle.

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