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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fangle.

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Examples

  • She would still scorn the new fangles of the world around her, and speak of the changes which she saw as all tending to evil.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • In the smoky light of spits and fangles, new-forged pikes give a steely glow.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • In the smoky light of spits and fangles, new-forged pikes give a steely glow.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Foresters, they're English for ae thing, an 'maybe they'll bring new fangles to Braeside, which, bein' a Scotsman, I canna gie my approbation to.

    Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

  • It's a bold and impudent letter, and I suppose you've enough sense left, with all your new fangles, to see that you can't do all she asks.

    The Mermaid A Love Tale Lily Dougall 1890

  • He thinks that it is a good antidote for the "new fangles" of Luther, who is leading the vulgar to think for themselves and to reject authority.

    Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

  • Then she had her own style of tumbling over the rollers, and rebounding more lightly than many newer ones, launched with all your new fangles.

    An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

  • She would still scorn the new fangles of the world around her, and speak of the changes which she saw as all tending to evil.

    He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1848

  • For my own part, I have seen many myself, and those church members too, so decked and bedaubed with their fangles [62] and toys, and that when they have been at the solemn appointments of God in the way of his worship, that I have wondered with what face such painted persons could sit in the place where they were without swooning.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • Ada, or Ardor - 'Poor Aqua, whose fancies were apt to fall for all the fangles of cranks and Christians ...' [21], which, when you listen to it, is quite witty and of a beautiful music.

    Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com 2008

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