Do we say mall or maul

mall 356 occurrences

While the last century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.

* THE MALL, CHISWICK, June 15, 18.

Madam: After her six years' residence at the Mall, I have the honour and happiness of presenting Miss Amelia Sedley to her parents, as a young lady not unworthy to occupy a fitting position in their polished and refined circle.

This letter completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name and Miss Sedley's in the fly-leaf of a Johnson's Dictionary, the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars on their departure from the Mall.

On the cover was inserted a copy of "Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton's school, at the Mall; by the late revered Dr. Samuel Johnson."

She could not only sing like a lark, and dance divinely, and embroider beautifully, and spell as well as a "Dixonary" itself, but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Miss Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery and the one-eyed tart woman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.

The world is before the two young ladies; and so, farewell to Chiswick Mall.

Although she exhibits the diamond tassels sparkling in St. James's sun or the musk and amber that perfume the Mall, she never penetrates beyond externalities.

Cromwell was abiding in a house in Pall Mall.

] According to the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. Lloyd George's double was seen at Cardiff the other day.

Subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. ELIZABETH FOSTER, granddaughter to JOHN MILTON, are taken in by Mr. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Cox and Collings, under the Royal Exchange; Mr. Cave, at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell; and Messrs. Payne and Bouquet, in Paternoster-Row. FOOTNOTES:

abroad in Pall mall magazine, May-Sept. 1927, Nov.-Dec. 1927)

(Pub. abroad in 6 installments in Nash's Pall mall, Feb.-July 1930)

(Pub. abroad as Butterflies in Nash's Pall-mall magazine, Apr. 1935)

abroad in Pall mall magazine, May-Sept. 1927, Nov.-Dec. 1927)

(In Mystery stories, Apr. 1928) (Pub. abroad in Pall Mall magazine, Mar. 1928)

(Pub. abroad in Pall mall magazine, Mar.-Apr.

(Pub. abroad as The prisoner's story, In Nash's-Pall Mall magazine, Sept. 1931) © 15Aug31, AI-15540; 14Jan32, A47038.

How to make the mall order business pay, by Walter Greb & John Fiescher.

(In Hearst's international-cosmopolitan, Apr. 1936) (Pub. abroad in Nash's Pall Mall magazine, Oct. 1935) © 18Sep35, AI-20763; 10Mar36, B293542.

(Pub. abroad in Nash's pall mall magazine, Dec. 1935-May 1936.

He urged me to write short stories for the Pall Mall Budget, and persuaded me by his simple and buoyant conviction that I could do what he desired.

Mall Gazette.

" From the Pall Mall Gazette.

NOTES: Oxford Lecture, reported in the Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 10, 1884.

maul 53 occurrences

<Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash, flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.

Villain, I'll maul thee for thine old offences, And grind thy bones to powder with this pestle!

'It seems,' said he, 'you met him on your road hither, when he was in the hands of some base fellows that had a mind to maul himdo you remember such a matter?'

Nun sag ich dir etwas ins Ohrdu nun mirnun machen wir dass Maul auf und zu immer mehrund mehrendlich sagen wir;es ist wagen SlampiStrampi, du kannst dir nun dabei denken was du willst das ist ebben die Comodität.

He turned on the light and found the maul leaning against the corner where he had left it.

He swung the maul and tossed the wood and pretended that Suzanne wasn't sitting in her quiet living room, pretended that nothing had happened.

There was only the splitting, the thunk of the maul into the chopping block, the klokking sound of pieces thrown on the pile . . .

"You kin go out over the perairah yander," said the farmer, dropping his maul beside a rail he had just split off,"there's a plain trail from Sykes's that'll bring you onto the road not fur from Sugar Crick."

No miscreant now Creeps Thug-like up, to maul the passer-by.

So I hope | from hencefor | -ward you ne'er | will ask, can | I maul

" "How finely would the sparks be caught to-day, Should a Whig poet write a Tory play, And you, possessed with rage before, should send Your random shot abroad and maul a friend?

Our airliners, by Irving Crump & Norman Maul.

Our airliners, by Irving Crump & Norman Maul.

MAUL, NORMAN.

They maul each other's faces with savage violence, and if one is knocked down her friends assist her to regain her feet, and the brutal combat is renewed until one or the other is driven from the wigwam.

"Misnomer," B.; Rex v. Billinghurst, 3 Maul. & S. 254.: but these passages throw no additional light upon our immediate subject.

"He might maul him a little, but I won't.

It was hottest there around the bend of our line, from our view-point; for there they must maul the trench into formless debris and cut the barbed wire in front of it before the charge was made.

So I went to him and told him that if he said a word about it, I should maul him into a slop and feed him to the hogs.

Suppose in Pennsylvania one thousand men meet and say: "John Smith has taken a job and is a scab, and we will go around and maul him to-night," and they do, or they don't; if they are tried, the fact whether they did maul him or not has nothing to do with the matter of the conspiracy.

Suppose in Pennsylvania one thousand men meet and say: "John Smith has taken a job and is a scab, and we will go around and maul him to-night," and they do, or they don't; if they are tried, the fact whether they did maul him or not has nothing to do with the matter of the conspiracy.

There is a death-maul painted below in black; it shows how she was killed.

(12) Twelve of women; one unbraideda very fine scalp (bought of a Wyandot from Burgoyne's army), which I paid full price for; nine braided, hoops blue, red tear-marks; two very gray; black hoops, plain brown color inside; death-maul marked in red.

A horrified silence followed; the chief reeled back, dropping the death-maul.

Such is the action on the felloes and spokes of a wagon wheel passing over a rough road; on a hammer handle when a blow is struck; on a maul when it strikes a wedge.

Do we say   mall   or  maul