Vocabulary Word
Word: mangle
Definition: tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies
Definition: tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies
Sentences Containing 'mangle'
I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.''
When, under cover of the night, I flew to Miss Mills, whom I saw by stealth in a back kitchen where there was a mangle, and implored Miss Mills to interpose between us and avert insanity.
When we cried, and made it up, and were so blest again, that the back kitchen, mangle and all, changed to Love's own temple, where we arranged a plan of correspondence through Miss Mills, always to comprehend at least one letter on each side every day!
If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.
However, it was so much to him that for India he was bound, and Julia with him; and Julia went into the country to take leave of her relations; and the house was put into a perfect suit of bills, announcing that it was to be let or sold, and that the furniture (Mangle and all) was to be taken at a valuation.
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