At the cottage door there was about four-pennyworth of mauled garden stuff upon an old tray.

When the huntsman who had leapt the wall got to them and had whipped off the hounds Mr. Tebrick had been terribly mauled and was bleeding from twenty wounds.

Three faces were still intact, but the fourth had been caved in, and badly mauled, without its comrades being able to help it.

These arms shall be a brazen ring, With no escape, no rest, howe'er he whine And curse his mauled ribs, till the Queen is mine!

They told me that we killed a great number of the Spaniards at Moosa, and that they were dying by fives and sixes a day after getting into the town; so miserably were they cut by our broad swords; yet by their great numbers they got the day; but were sadly mauled, otherwise they would have pursued me.

Indeed for an immediate illustration of the products of the business toward which he was hastening I might have taken him by the arm and led him across two sets of tracks and shown him men in the prime of life who were hatcheled like flax, and mauled like blocks, and riddled like sieves, and macerated out of the living image of their Maker.

She left the kennel panting, and in rags and tatters, some of the muslin and lace hanging about her in strips a yard long, but the greater part remaining in the possession of the terriers, who had mauled and munched her finery to their hearts' content, while she was reading the Riot Act.

This place had been badly mauled.

In the early months of 1915 this wood was in a pretty mauled-about state, and as time went on of course got more so.

As to the fourth he yet lived, but altogether mauled and shaken, for his thigh was broken, and a spear head remained in his side.

Wherefore Halkett's sudden appearance, mauled, begrimed and breathless from his late tussle with the two enginemen, was the first intimation of wrong-going that had penetrated to the inner sanctum of the private car.

You then again, and again contrary to my advice, embarked in perfect wild-cat affairs, which ended in ourI say 'our' heregetting severely scratched and mauled.

There were few woolly lambs and such-like idols, but instead Cossar, without explanation, had brought one day in three four-wheelers a great number of toys (all just too big for the coming children to swallow) that could be piled up, arranged in rows, rolled about, bitten, made to flap and rattle, smacked together, felt over, pulled out, opened, closed, and mauled and experimented with to an interminable extent.

Thereupon Doctor Moreno showed me a scar on his face, and told me that he had himself been attacked and badly mauled by a puma which was undoubtedly trying to prey on him; that is, which had started on a career as a man-eater.

"Rough-housing" is throwing your neighbour's bread across the table at someone else, and he throwing his table napkin back at you, and yelling and screaming with mirth; and it often ends with being mauled and pulled about, and water being poured down someone's neck.

Fancy, Mamma, when Ermyntrude grows up, my allowing her to pour water down a man's neck, and to be mauled and fought with in consequence!

It had not been trained in the mass tactics which hurl columns of flesh forward to gain tactical points that have been mauled by artillery fire.

The modern contest which most resembles that which was waged between the Greeks and the Persians is that war between England and Spain which came to a crisis in 1588, when the Spanish Armada was destroyed by the tempests of the Northern seas, after having been well mauled by the English fleet.

Then, when the Johnnies were driven back, I was mauled around again, but don't remember much except that I was thirsty.

Cuffed and mauled by the storm, I made a circuit of the stack, and stumbled over the tumbling-rod of the threshing-machine, which was still standing where it had been used.

Her mind suddenly filled with wild visionsof herself marched through the village by Watson, as she had once seen him march a poacher who had mauled one of Mr. Forrest's keepersof the towering walls of Frampton Gaolof a visible physical shame which would kill herdrive her mad.

"I have no patience to be mauled.

"You never can take real pleasure again in any poetry that you have mauled in that manner.

He beheld it, and forthwith vowed, with uncivil directness, that he would rather build the vicar a crack church to his mind, in the middle of the village, than help in having that dear old place mauled and tampered with.

He looked as though he had been terribly mauled by some animal.