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  • Abstract collages and enamel pieces by Norma Jean Wangle.

    Museums Post 2010

  • 'Wangle' yourself an invitation to this landing party.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • 'Wangle' yourself an invitation to this landing party.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • 'Wangle' yourself an invitation to this landing party.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • I've been reading Lear aloud to my daughter, and she with her literal mind keeps asking, "What does this word mean?" and "What is a Quangle-Wangle?"

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Not Simply Silliness tanita davis 2008

  • For the first ten days they sailed on beautifully, and found plenty to eat, as there were lots of fish; and they had only to take them out of the sea with a long spoon, when the Quangle-Wangle instantly cooked them; and the

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

  • Meanwhile the Quangle-Wangle threw back the pumpkin with immense force, so that it hit the rocks where the malicious little boy in rose-colored knickerbockers was sitting; when, being quite full of lucifer-matches, the pumpkin exploded surreptitiously into a thousand bits; whereon the rocks instantly took fire, and the odious little boy became unpleasantly hotter and hotter and hotter, till his knickerbockers were turned quite green, and his nose was burnt off.

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

  • Quangle-Wangle, who had to cook the dinner and make the tea; for which purposes they took a large kettle.

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

  • Quangle-Wangle, the tea-kettle and churn placed in their respective positions, and the Pussy-Cat stationed at the helm -- the children each took

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

  • Quangle-Wangle crept softly, and bit off the tail-feathers of all the sixty-five parrots; for which Violet reproved them both severely.

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

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