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1. They finished exchanging pleasantries, Herndon showing off how well he could still mangle the old tongue in the process
2. While seeing two dogs mangle the life out of each other was considered
3. That the ability of students to perceive and describe other people, ideas, or events is diminished if the censors mangle their vocabulary does not appear to trouble these mentors of our young
4. I can mangle and spit out a Dutch sentence here and there, much to the amusement of my
5. He thinks maybe he’s dreaming and he’ll wake up again in the hot spring, probably with another large mountain cat standing over him ready to mangle his other leg, with his luck
6. that I would mangle her into a million pieces,” Bethany said, still smash-
7. "And the property of love, I have observed, is often to mangle and kill the soul of its object
8. The fence and gates that had surrounded the building were strewn about in a mangle of steel
9. His face had a hard edge to it that looked like he wanted to mangle something into pieces
10. Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper, in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or if not, ember days or something like that
11. 'Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman,' she called out, 'and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!'
12. The roof was mended, a kitchen maid was found—a crony of the village elder’s—hens were bought, the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in the
13. The roof was mended, a kitchen maid was found—a crony of the village elder's—hens were bought, the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in the maids' room
14. " But men are the builders of their own destiny, and more especially of the destiny of their children; and so when we ask, "Why do you bring together millions of troops, and why do you make soldiers of yourselves, and mangle and murder one another? Why have you expended, and why do you still expend, an enormous sum of human energy in the construction of useless and unhealthful cities? Why do you organize ridiculous tribunals, and send people whom you consider as criminals from France to Cayenne, from Russia to Siberia, from England to Australia, when you know the hopeless folly of it? Why do you abandon agriculture, which you love, for work in factories and mills, which you despise? Why do you bring up your children in a way that will force them to lead an existence which you find worthless? Why do you do this?" To all these questions men feel obliged to make some reply
