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Updated: May 11, 2025
With a voice broken by the effort he had to make all the time to keep from crying, Stephen read, "MADAM Put away your mangle-that son of yours is worth mangling for; but it is time to rest now. The note is for your present wants; in future your son may supply you. I let him go to-night; but I did not mean him to stay away, if he chooses to come back. I don't see that I can do well without him.
Burgh House is now a private residence, and the cells where insubordinate soldiers were confined are converted into the drying and mangling rooms of a laundry. The Wells Tavern is on the site of the Green Man, of ancient date.
Fifty feet between the youngster and those mangling hoofs twenty five! the crowd gasped they were blotted together! Not so. A mighty hand had snatched the boy away in that instant of time. He was safe and very indignant in a howling, huddled heap in the ditch by the roadside, but alas, for horse and rider!
All the cruel, tormenting, defined devils in Dante tearing, mangling, choking, stifling, scorching demons are they one half so fearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him
If, reader, you have ever looked through a solar microscope at the monsters in a drop of water, perhaps you have wondered to yourself how things so terrible have been hitherto unknown to you you have felt a loathing at the limpid element you hitherto deemed so pure you have half fancied that you would cease to be a water-drinker; yet, the next day you have forgotten the grim life that started before you, with its countless shapes, in that teeming globule; and, if so tempted by your thirst, you have not shrunk from the lying crystal, although myriads of the horrible Unseen are mangling, devouring, gorging each other in the liquid you so tranquilly imbibe; so is it with that ancestral and master element called Life.
"Sylvia," said I, interrupting her, "let me give you a little piece of wisdom from my own experience: The gnawings of ungratified curiosity are often very irritating, but we should remember that the gnawings of gratified curiosity are frequently mangling." "Indeed!" she exclaimed, "is that the way you look at it?
Mr. Gladstone, from his tender concern for Zohak, is unsatisfied because the devil has as yet kissed only one shoulder, because there is not a snake mangling and mangled on the left to keep in countenance his brother on the right. But we must proceed in our examination of his theory.
On Saturday afternoons he cleaned the knives, the forks, the boots, the kettles, and the windows, patiently and conscientiously; on Tuesday evenings he took the clothes to the mangling; and on Saturday nights he attended Mrs. Simmons in her marketing, to carry the parcels. Mrs. Simmons's own virtues were native and numerous. She was a wonderful manager.
He chased his victims as though he were a mad dog, sending them crazed by his bite, or worrying and mangling them to a dreadful death.
And in order to avoid being anatomised, he affronted the court at the Old Bailey, at the time he received sentence of death, intending as he said to provoke them to hang him in chains, by which means he should escape the mangling of the surgeon's knives, which to him seemed ten thousand times worse than death itself.
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