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    1. ruck and maul the young prince and his lady wife spotted a tired


    2. In the dwarf's giant hand was a hammer, which was, in human terms, a maul


    3. As he pushed locks of his auburn hair out of his face, he grinned at the two Nords - even as the bears prepared to swipe and likely maul the man beyond repair


    4. If she rushed her shot, it would only wound the animal and the beast would undoubtedly maul her before she could reload


    5. neighbour's house; in case he is weary of you, and so hate you; the man who bears false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a


    6. Mitch to help hoist it from the bed and right it under the maul of the sand bin


    7. They wanted to maul him and ripped his limbs from his body


    8. This was Shevatas, a thief among thieves, whose name was spoken with awe in the dives of the Maul and the dim shadowy recesses beneath the temples of Bel, and who lived in songs and myths for a thousand years


    9. His devotees died about that tomb in a crimson holocaust, but the barbarians could not burst the door, nor ever mar the structure by maul or fire


    10. Freddie did not know what he would do if he saw her or worse still, if one of these filthy rich Middle Easterners started to maul her

    11. Dogs have been used to maul and kill the enemy


    12. This was a white enclave which was only just beginning to open its doors to other races and even then the new intake was also rather precious; sons and daughters of a new black middle class which also wished to guard their offspring from the realities of urban sprawl and maul


    13. "That lecherous slime? And have him paw and maul me?


    14. be haphazard events resembling a loose maul


    15. He beat the floor with a splitting maul, shattering the wood, screaming at the audacity of it, to soak her up as it had


    16. couldn't send bears because they might maul someone, they couldn't send wild


    17. nevertheless in that same black darkness they see black things as devils, that ever maul them and


    18. And nevertheless in that same black darkness they see black things as devils, that ever maul them and afflict and harass them with all kinds of tortures; and tailed drakes, horrible as devils, that devour them whole and spew them out afterwards before and behind


    19. The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves key, The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words


    20. scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul,

    21. After several days, a pair of crows take to standing on his shoulders, chiseling away with their beaks, and eventually the custodian comes out with two third-year boys and they hack the corpse’s feet out of the ice with a maul and tip him into a cart and roll him away


    22. He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness


    23. He hiked deep into the northwest woods, climbed up steep mountain inclines, and scrambled over jumbles of fallen trees, hauling with him a chainsaw, a peavey, a splitting maul, and assorted iron wedges jammed into his pockets, in search of salvageable wood


    24. Victor suggested that I nudge it with my foot but I was afraid it might maul me so instead I poked it gently with a pool noodle while saying, “Hey, possum


    25. Therefore, the ship's maul and the pounded nail and the bright sun-symbol of power and reward banged to the mast with the promise that gold will pour from Moby Dick's wounds into their outreached cupping hands


    26. The men do not know it, but the sound they hear of the maul striking the coin's fastening nail is their sea-coffin lid being hammered flat shut


    27. Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before


    28. He had struck a former hand once with a heavy maul


    1. And then that he mauled some EMTs and wandered off


    2. instructions to tell his wife, Mary, that one of his batty old Aunt’s cats had mauled


    3. Later that morning, with Johnny restored to some sort of order, and with firm instructions to tell his wife, Mary, that one of his batty old Aunt’s cats had mauled him during the night, she bade him farewell


    4. The mechanism of the water irrigation system mauled his body beyond recognition


    5. “The commander was mauled by a wild animal in the desert, according to the men who brought him in


    6. “Because that’s exactly how my father died! He was mauled to death by a wild animal a few days ago!”


    7. Maybe the two men were both mauled by the same animal


    8. When my family registered with Ashpenaz he told us that my father had apparently been mauled by a wild animal and that he’d died of his wounds


    9. “Also because the troops on V Beach got badly mauled as well that there is no chance of us joining up with each other as for the objectives of the Dardanelle Forts I think that Krithia will now be our goal and may just be more obtainable


    10. When Amaranthe moved around the end, she almost stepped on a mauled body

    11. —Citizens of this rural village are on the lookout for a cougar after a horse was mauled at a nearby farm


    12. “The horse was mauled by an animal with sharp claws


    13. Constable Doug Griffiths said police take such reports seriously after a horse was reportedly mauled by an animal with sharp claws, consistent with a cougar attack


    14. One of the cops that released the dogs caught up to where Nugget was being mauled


    15. He reminded me that his people had been badly mauled in the very first campaign undertaken by the Mongols and had been crushed again in a second campaign


    16. However, should you come upon the bear while he is mauling another man, do you, so poorly armed, attack the bear to help the man or slip away, glad it is he and not you being mauled?”


    17. they said, “I can be mauled by a tiger, raped by a bear, drink green


    18. being mauled by a wild animal


    19. His name wasn’t Rupert, nor did he believe that Laura was a grubby little peasant girl to be mauled around


    20. The guards, interpreting the rapid encirclement of the men that they had just mauled as recognition of their victims by the rapidly growing assembly, beat a wary retreat back toward the still-open gate, brandishing their weapons at all who might be encouraged to move in that direction

    21. The guards, interpreting the rapid encirclement of the men that they had just mauled as


    22. 'We have been so mauled, bitten, scratched and rended, and are so weary from fighting and running, that not one of us can lift a sword


    23. "The man was mauled in the same manner that took the life of the cookie cutter I just told you about


    24. Howie and the two children were taken to hospital, badly mauled


    25. He noticed a leather thong which was blackened with dry blood and tangled around the exposed vertebrae below her mauled head


    26. The bear is basically mauled


    27. -5 year-old Pablo Hernandez was mauled to death by the


    28. The ‘POP’ of the launch was nearly inaudible in the middle of the grenade explosions and the screams from men being mauled by the blasts and fragments


    29. This kitty mauled the daughter of a Kansas State Trooper


    30. The screaming Kiri and her infant, the latter already mauled to death inside the jaws of the beast, were then dragged away by the powerful predator, to be eaten outside the cave

    31. Now, after sending his conventional forces to fight what had appeared at first to be a minor war in Asia, he was seeing these forces being severely mauled by communist forces, while the full extent of the Soviet Union’s involvement and duplicity was becoming painfully obvious


    32. The Wehrmacht although badly mauled, was spared the fate of Napoleons Grand Army


    33. All he new at that point was the sound of the rather large dog still ringing in his ears and that he was not prepared to be mauled that day


    34. He was rather amazed that he and Paula weren’t mauled by the patrons, as they seemed to all fit into the demographic profile of viewers for their shows


    35. Surely Dale was not going to leave me there being mauled by that lusty gang? The on-screen me,


    36. “You know, after its tussle with the matador, if let out, the mauled beast becomes wiser to his ways with the green herring, should they find themselves in the ring again, they wouldn’t be fooled any longer, and so as to avert the threat these creatures pose to the matadors they are slaughtered after the spectacle is over


    37. Eventually, after only five of the unwilling participants had been mauled and eaten, the lions grew tired and, to everyone's amazement, simply lay down upon the ground with no more interest in the other humans huddling together in fear in the arena


    38. If Andrew gets overrun, beaten, chewed, mauled, killed, eaten—”


    39. It wasn’t good, because I knew we’d never make it to the other Jeep without being mauled to death


    40. His big hands found her breasts, squeezed them painfully with all is strength, mauled her nipples with his fingernails until blood started to dribble to the floor

    41. “Denver Zookeeper not the only one mauled by a bear? Reports have been looming around the city of Denver, and other nearby cities, of brutal attacks similar to the attack on Zookeeper Janet Hobbs


    42. It says the police think the footman was mauled to death by a stray dog


    43. It was of little comfort to know that at least I wasn't going to get mauled to death


    44. and mauled by the vultures, leading to his death


    45. That's when Alicia's face got mauled by a pillow


    46. They all bore the marks of having been viciously mauled


    47. The rest of their pack lay dead and were being mauled on by at least twenty of the zarlons, while five more zarlons circled the surviving pair seemingly taunting them with the sight of their pack being eaten before them


    48. I talked to a woman earlier whose six-year old daughter got mauled


    49. which in that moment was to somehow escape being mauled and killed…my intuition is


    50. Don Quixote did so, reining in Rocinante until his weary squire came up, who on reaching him said, "It seems to me, senor, it would be prudent in us to go and take refuge in some church, for, seeing how mauled he with whom you fought has been left, it will be no wonder if they give information of the affair to the Holy Brotherhood and arrest us, and, faith, if they do, before we come out of gaol we shall have to sweat for it














    1. I cogitated on the drive home and my leg felt all the better for the mauling those nurses had give it


    2. I repeatedly stabbed the beast in its face and eyes and after some blows, the wounded animal turned on me and began mauling me too


    3. Maybe though they took more of a mauling this morning then we thought and are lying back now licking their wounds


    4. The Nurians would be mauling us if they had any idea how weak-minded our supposed emperor is


    5. “This sighting may be closely related to the horse mauling


    6. In fact, the injured horse may have run into barbed wire while running, and panicked, mauling itself,” according to Frederickson


    7. It wouldn’t be too much of a blow to the Baron’s ego or the morale of his men, who were taking a mauling, to be rested at the routine interval


    8. It was quite a scene watching the two of them blubbering and mauling each other, but I was relieved that she was finally released, and I could get my babies out of there


    9. However, should you come upon the bear while he is mauling another man, do you, so poorly armed, attack the bear to help the man or slip away, glad it is he and not you being mauled?”


    10. rough mauling it had endured

    11. The painful thoughts of the mauling and lacerations were indelibly imprinted on the darkest recesses of his mind, however with the use of the red crystals, treatment had now become much easier


    12. Edwin realised the dog’s collar was attached to a long length of rope, and it was the rope that had saved Captain Rathbone from a nasty mauling


    13. “I’d love to get more of the brat mauling Donna, but I have a feeling the view from Sam’s apartment will be much more entertaining


    14. “Hey, Pal, that’s my wife you’re mauling,” another


    15. unexpected was to happen, I did have a ‘torrential mauling


    16. Most of his sheep were dead but a few had survived the mauling by Roger Knowles' dogs


    17. lioness mauling his leg


    18. limped from the severe mauling his leg had taken


    19. At last, while they were all, with the exception of the two bruisers who were mauling each other, in high glee and enjoyment, they heard a trumpet sound a note so doleful that it made them all look in the direction whence the sound seemed to come


    20. A move had to be made because that merry old soul, the grasswidower in question who appeared to be glued to the spot, didn't appear in any particular hurry to wend his way home to his dearly beloved Queenstown and it was highly likely some sponger's bawdyhouse of retired beauties where age was no bar off Sheriff street lower would be the best clue to that equivocal character's whereabouts for a few days to come, alternately racking their feelings (the mermaids') with sixchamber revolver anecdotes verging on the tropical calculated to freeze the marrow of anybody's bones and mauling their largesized charms betweenwhiles with rough and tumble gusto to the accompaniment of large potations of potheen and the usual blarney about himself for as to who he in reality was let x equal my right name and address, as Mr Algebra remarks passim

    1. A lion mauls my head, but he seems friendly


    2. Berunni’s people made a concerted effort to slam clubs, hammers and mauls simultaneously against the barricade


    3. mauls, and the drivers of horses,


    4. “As you would a mad dog that mauls intruders


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    Synonyms for "maul"

    maul sledge sledgehammer mangle bruise batter pound whip trample molest mallet club brawl tool

    "maul" definitions

    a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges


    split (wood) with a maul and wedges


    injure badly by beating