Sentence Examples:
Everything is all balled up, the managers are sore at me, and afraid of being sent to jail, and pa thinks I ought to be mauled.
At first curiosity attracted this animal, and later the hunting instinct caused him to maul his prey.
Three faces were still intact, but the fourth had been caved in, and badly mauled, without its comrades being able to help it.
He was horribly mauled of course; in fact I believe he lost his arm, but he saved his life.
The Poodle was tried for retrieving with some success, and he showed considerable aptitude in finding and fetching wounded wild duck; but he, too, was inclined to maul his birds and deliver them dead.
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.
This same person got offended with another of his slaves, knocked him down, and struck out one of his eyes with a maul.
They looked on helplessly, and one said to the other, "Here we've been mauling each other all this while, and no one the better for it except the Fox!"
The people cut strips of green hide, and tied stones in the middle, and made large mauls, and broke in the skulls of the buffalo, and killed them.
Had Jerry, with a broken leg or so, still retained power of movement, then he would have mauled him, perhaps to death.
It was because I could not control the muscles of my neck which that day had been so mauled.
Then, when the Johnnies were driven back, I was mauled around again, but don't remember much except that I was thirsty.
She can turn it about to get the full, side, and back view of her performance, without touching the article in question, which, if it is mauled about ever so little, soon loses its freshness.
I've seen times when a ship mauled about like this would have been bled for four times the amount before a tug would pluck her in.
A minute was mighty short time in which to recover fighting trim from such mauling as had been exchanged.
They were terribly mauled, and a great number of prisoners taken, whose heads the Shah struck off immediately.
They had heard stories of vicious rams many times, and knew that only the year before a girl had been almost mauled to death by such an animal.
Let the ball emerge near one of these, and he will whip it up and be ten paces off before those in the "maul" even know that it is gone.
There can be no doubt, he says, that an untouched bear will often charge, while a tiger will rarely do so, and there are numerous instances of people having been mauled and sometimes killed by them.
He'll take all sorts of mauling from any of us boys or from anyone whom he likes, but let a person whom he distrusts point a finger at him, and he's at their throat in a minute.
I clutched the desk, struggled to my feet, passed down the aisle, the sound of my shoes echoing through the silence like the strokes of a maul.
He had been rather badly mauled by one of the lions; but was now able to walk alone, though he was extremely weak from shock and loss of blood.
The puppies at once set upon little Sandy Chow, and had thoroughly mauled his starched sailor suit in the driveway before two minutes were past.
They sneaked up on 'em while I was away from camp, mauled 'em something fierce, and tied 'em up.
Then the battery opened upon her, and we could see that she was hulled more than once, and, as she kept her wind along the shore, the other batteries opened upon her, and she got a good mauling.
Shakespeare has been fiercely mauled by the critics for confusion of metaphor in speaking of taking up "arms against a sea of troubles."
The wretched stranger was instantly set upon, his journal torn from his hand and his limbs very severely mauled.
At the minute Gilles could have leapt at him and mauled the great shoulders with a dog's weapons.
I hope he is lucky enough to get a fatal shot in, then; for one of those gentry is apt to maul a fellow good and hard if only wounded.
After considerable use, the face of the maul will become somewhat rounded, and when this takes place it should be sent to the shop to be redressed.
And the last ash was felled, the oxen for the last time scrambled through the wood with the heavy logs, and for the last time ax and maul and wedge did sturdy service.
An ax, a maul, a yoke of oxen; these are the great requisites for him who would build a rail fence through a forest.
He did not swing the maul late the next Saturday that came, but took up his journey and reached home in early evening.
He swung his ax or maul, and commanded the red oxen in country speech, and deeper and deeper into the forest grew the fence.
As he followed the latter, he saw Barrington's three ships unduly separated and doubtless visibly much mauled.
The larger vessel's rigging we could see was badly mauled, the smaller ship dodged round and round her, and off and on, plugging her as fast as the guns could be loaded and fired.
It is a little hard on the poor fellow whom you have probably mauled, if you have not shot each other.
He was beaten, badly mauled, and thrown to the ground, where a number of them held him hand and foot, whilst others produced ropes to bind him fast.
He ran forward and threw himself on his knees at the very brink of that cracked and mauled sea cliff.
A Parson and neighbor Prat interfere to convey them to jail for the disturbance, but are themselves badly mauled.
He is not to rush, like a madman, at the lie, and try to maul it to death by sheer force of arm and hand.
The badly mauled brigades hastily took to the boats and ran the rapids, stopping at the first harbor below.
The common word maul may mean to beat and bruise a person, but it means more often merely to handle something carelessly and roughly.
His vest and shirt were torn to ribbons so that they did not cover the mauled and bruised flesh at all.
It opens because it is sick of being mauled about; and, as likely as not, it opens at the moment when she is holding it upside down.
Bold leaped forward, sinking his teeth into the meat as it was still falling, shaking and mauling it.
The dog leaped up again and tried to come to the assistance of its master, but turned upon Hodge when he struck at it again with the maul.
The bird was rescued, and is alive still, but it was severely mauled before I could rescue it, having been seized by the neck.
Arthur turned then to face Tim, his hands doubled into mauls; but the other men interfered, and the encounter was over.
He was mauled and thumped, but not for many seconds, because the girls rushed to his rescue and clubbed his attackers off.
The man left behind was so badly mauled that he died before he could be carried to the hospital tent.
At the same time it seems a thousand pities to leave him now that we have given him such a terrible mauling.
Get a maul, Poole, and you and I will start forward, whilst you, Kit, with another hand, commence aft.
Exclaimed Mr McCarthy, rising to his feet and shaking out his legs to see how far they were capable of movement after the mauling he had received.
The other boys, too, were just as disgusted at the turn events had taken, for they had looked for rare sport in seeing me mauled by their champion.
And it was only after months of suffering that Williams finally recovered from the mauling.
I expected to see a long, lean flash of yellow body and to experience the sensation of being mauled by a lion.
I wondered why the Englishmen had not come out to get the lions themselves, and then remembered that one of them had been mauled by a lion and had henceforth remained neutral in all lion fights.
There must be some poison in a lion's teeth, otherwise how is it that when your wounds are healed they break out again, generally, mark you, at the same time of year that you got your mauling?
He mauled the thing pretty considerably, and cross-examined me as to how I come by it, ending by upsetting half a tumbler of gin and water over it.
The nearer was the voice of the wind in his ears rising and falling as it mauled and thrust him hard or softly.
He argued that a whirlwind might have taken an animal up from one place, mauled it around, and have precipitated its remains somewhere else.
The young Wolf was bitten and mauled nearly to death on several occasions, but he recovered, and each month there were fewer Dogs willing to face him.
I didn't rightly know what was going on any more than if I'd got mauled by a pack of lions.
Pausing a moment, she would stretch her body to its extreme length, and, lying upon her side, pound the floor with her head as if it were a maul.
Any'ow they got fighting and mauled each other pretty severe; in fact Peters is in hospital.
Got it cornered in a stable at last, somewhere in East 19th Street; but it attacked and mauled a valuable horse there, and I understand is still at bay.
Peter Cooper's body was marked by the falls, mauls, hauls, and scars of burns and explosions.
It was his mauled and bruised shape, his half-bestial face that they were torturing and tormenting.
I saw this morning a proclamation offering a reward of fifty pounds for your capture, and I have no doubt that Finlay will earn it if he can, even if the soldier you mauled does not trace you here.
Maul, after whom the town was named, arrived early and took his seat, his earnest face wearing the look of a determined man sure of his course.
Anxious, alert, and not hopeful, Johnnie had been watching the two, this from the farther side of the table, so that he should not be handy in case his giant foster father wanted to maul him.
Mauls were ringing at the last spikes when the head flat car moved cautiously out on the new track.
I have worked here on a small salary and done everything but maul spikes to keep down expenses on the division, because we had to make some showing to whoever wanted to buy our junk.
Instead of fighting or "mauling," they approached the back porch of the Day house as though on pleasure bent.
True, we were not captured, and had very few losses, and had severely mauled the enemy, but they had crossed the drift.
Everybody pulled out boxes and searched, got down on hands and knees and poked, and the rest mauled Louisa from head to foot.
His gallant conduct saved the convoy, and the Bonhomme Richard was so severely mauled that she sank the next day.
There were moments when he would have liked to maul her; and yet he saw himself obliged to hold her in check with kind words.
They brought me numbers of small birds in exchange for beads or tobacco, but mauled them terribly, notwithstanding my repeated instructions.
Nothing less than a broken leg could enable a man to knock off work; and there were two such, who had been mauled and pulped by the seas that broke aboard.
An Emir who, horribly mauled by a shell, lay pinned under his dead horse waved his hand and fell back a corpse.
There's no virginity of mind left, mauled as they must be and half-stewed all the time, and they're wild to get rid of the other.
He struck and bit and worried with his hard bill; but the dog, half-shutting his eyes, took the mauling grimly and dragged his troublesome captive into the water.
"He has been pretty well mauled up, but I think he'll come around with proper attention," answered the young Southerner.
I draw the line at having my hair pulled out by the roots; it is quite enough to have my nose mauled all out of shape.
Through the window I could see a trim fellow laughing with a girl, and I said to myself, "If I can catch you out somewhere I will maul you."
And she was prevailed on by some money from the Sectaries, who were mauled by him, to suppress them.
Tugged at so and mauled, the magic of the universe slips away from out of our very fingers.
Joe was mauled and pounded until he was almost out of breath, and it was a relief when at last he had made his way back to his mother and sister.
He was a tower of a man, for all his sixty years; and he had mauled three of the crew severely before Cunningham arrived.
He had been somewhat badly mauled in the preliminaries, and now it seemed to him that he was a prisoner in the hands of these people.
One of the dogs was being mauled, but the day was muddy, and Shelton, like any well-bred Englishman, had a horror of making himself conspicuous even in a decent cause; he looked for a policeman.
I should like to stick the lost pens into them and turn them out, blind-eyed, to be scratched and mauled by those thousand hungry cats.
They were sitting in the cellar entrance to a house in a little town which had already been somewhat mauled.
He only had to put in a few hours of patient overhead sawing and split out the chunks with wedges and a maul.
Sometimes, when Bernadine was badly mauled, she lost her temper, and threatened to tell mamma.
He places a die in the shape of the glove upon the leather, gives one blow with a heavy maul, and the glove is cut out.
To see two gentlemen of his acquaintance thus brutally mauling each other was deeply shocking to Harry.
The only helps they seem to have employed was fire, traces of which are found everywhere, and stone mauls and axes.