wangle

• I hassled and hassled until I manage to wangle a few images from her. —  Style Bubble
• The "Happy journey" and ear to ear smile of the flower-shirted man at the ticket office, to our heart-felt thanks, as he sent us off with night train tickets he managed to wangle after some secret behind the scenes shenanigans. —  WordPress.com News
• If they must use water in their milk we are glad to think that the Nile is only their second choice The Sunday schools must try to 'wangle'--that was, a project their in-to 'wangle'--that was, to project their in-enlarged task, and attempt to do what seemed impossible." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916
• S. orientals is grown in the West Indies under the name of "wangle." —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.
• The men keep an eye on the watches and "wangle" for the last second We passed through two ruined villages with the battered walls sticking up like broken teeth and the gray moonlight shining through empty holes that had been windows. —  A Yankee in the Trenches

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