wurzels

From town to town we go, fair to fair, sleeping in fields, eating those awful mangel-wurzels, selling pretty smells to hypocrites, and hard-ons to yeomen.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

Was it to, you know, replace opium poppies with mangold wurzels or something?

CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009 2009

Return to the vegetable existence he had led among the agricultural journals with the life-size mangold wurzels, before this new attraction came into his life — no! He exceeded his allowance of cigars.

Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

Through a French window, under sun-blinds not yet drawn up, he preceded her into the room where he was wont to study The Times and the sheets of an agricultural magazine, with huge illustrations of mangold wurzels, and the like, which provided

Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

Mangel-wurzels, a basket of cherries, even fresh fish.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

I was confronted by a large flabby individual, who grasped a cabbage in one hand and a number of mangel-wurzels in the other.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

It wasn't a _h_ouse, Jerry, I wish you to understand; it was merely a little 'ouse standing in its own grounds like, with a brace or so of chickens and a few mangel-wurzels a-climbin' round the place.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various

The rumour that the hippopotamus demanded a pailful of jam with its mangel-wurzels, in the belief that they were some kind of homoeopathic pill, appears to have been baseless.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

"But in Shropshire, they tell me, they are having trouble with the mangel-wurzels."

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928

Twenty paces brought us to a spot where a stack of mangel wurzels stood at the roadside.

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper Sax Rohmer 1921