Mangles

"If you wish to have your water-fowl breed," says Captain Mangles, "have no coots, for if you have they will destroy all the eggs."

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

'Well, sir, availing myself of your permission to speak, I may remark, without offence to the young lady, that I don't happen to recollect the name Mangles among the old families of England.

Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

“Well, sir, availing myself of your permission to speak, I may remark, without offence to the young lady, that I don’t happen to recollect the name Mangles among the old families of

Uncle Silas 2003

English is a Rubick's cube of confusing possibilities, but the new book, "100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up Or Mangles" from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionary will set straight all the little linguistic hurdles that effect us, once and for all.

'Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up Or Mangles': 7 Entries From The New American Heritage Book (PHOTOS) 2010

Pam and Mangles, you see, had given me no proper directions at all: I was supposed to wheedle her into being a loyal little British subject, but I'd no power to make concessions to any of her grievances.

Fiancée 2010

The dog he bought in London from Ross and Mangles, the dealers in Fulham Road.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

Mangles, at the Board of Control in London, had described it as "tranquil beneath the Company's benevolent rule", but he was a pompous ass with a talent for talking complete bosh about subjects on which he was an authority.

Fiancée 2010

Ne'er mind - I'm glad to have had the opportunity of instructin 'you myself - of course, you'll be more fully informed, before you sail, of all the intelligence you'll need - his lordship here, an' Mangles at the Board in London, will be talkin 'to you.

Fiancée 2010

Supposedly he managed to keep the relics and still had them when he arrived in Botany Bay in 1820 as a convict aboard the vessel Mangles.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Washington Post Praises Bush Leak, Mangles Facts'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'This morning, the Washington Post published an editorial — entitled “A Good Leak” — vigorously defending President Bush’s decision to authorize a leak of classified information as part of a political effort to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Washington Post Praises Bush Leak, Mangles Facts 2006