| On washing day it was my job to wring out the washing by turning the mangle for her. |
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| She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated mangle. |
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| Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him. |
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| Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment. |
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| Where men bark at passing forklifts, women hiss and mangle any creature offensive enough to browse for shoes the same size as our own. |
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| Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes. |
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| At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle. |
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| Now I slur my words and mangle the language with the best of them, though people close to me do still tease me for my tendency towards pomposity. |
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| It is easier to understand mangled grammar than new vocabulary, because people mangle grammar constantly. |
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| And when institutions routinely mangle language is it any wonder that individuals will too? |
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| The first continuous process involved squeezing a ribbon of molten glass through two hot rollers, similar to an old mangle. |
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| But while the validity of moulding the myths from separate classical poems is questionable, he is not the first to mangle the work of Homer in the name of cinema. |
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| As Joe points out, I somehow managed to totally mangle this question. |
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| If I can mangle John Donne just a bit, when it comes to water, no jurisdiction is an island unto itself. |
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| After they make their resounding statements of principle, put the Grits through the mangle and their real intentions gush out. |
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| You can smash in a man's head with a hammer, you can mangle your own thumb with it, or you can use it to build a house. |
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| However, having been through the Council's mangle, it undeniably looks less impressive. |
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| Here we still use a giant mangle of 1600 is unique in the world for size and weight. |
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| To create the fitting casual vintage-style of this table linen, do not mangle or iron. |
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| He made a linocut about the raid and printed it on his mother's mangle. |
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| Pilager is a malleable stumblebum who's never met a sentence he can't mangle. |
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| There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine. |
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| Three mangle wrappers with specialist experience, working to a regular schedule, Messrs Hermann Kalt, Bruno Gafner and Jean-Claude Zevacco look after several hundred mangles throughout Switzerland. |
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| Just mangle with the French and enjoye this typical French sport. |
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| You can export your patterns and songs as AIFF audio files and MIDI files, mangle the sound of each channel beyond recognition, get funky with the swing feature, and more. |
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| I was wondering if he saw it as something he wanted to mangle or attack. |
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| Its active principles are obtained from the plant Rhizophora mangle L., in an extraction process in watery environment and properly formulated with the presence of preservers and emollient. |
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| Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line. |
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| The two girls are shown trying out an old mangle as they learned about the days before automatic washing machines and spin dryers. |
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| The builders also shared with the children their finds, including a half penny and a mangle. |
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| In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark. |
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| Traditional cleaning methods from washing windows with newspaper and vinegar to washing clothes in a dolly tub, posser and mangle are the order of the day. |
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| To see how it might work, Heatherwick's studio devised a bespoke crumpling device, like a heavy Victorian mangle, its roller kinkily studded with rubber nodules. |
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