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A mangy carpet. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hide, and they out-distanced the boys who herded them. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
In a corner, on what had once been a bed of spruce-boughs, still wrapped in mangy furs, that had rotted to fragments, lay a skeleton. From Wordnik.com. [THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK] Reference
I'm gettin 'mangy an' mad. From Wordnik.com. [SHORTY DREAMS] Reference
Because how could I go through a game with a hairstyle known as "mangy"?. From Wordnik.com. [EveryJoe] Reference
I have forgotten whether she said they looked "mangy," or "measly," or "peaky;" but she conveyed her idea in some such graphic phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches] Reference
He's a player, and as ugly as an old mangy carthorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
I've never seen such a bunch of blank-mangy-looking men. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
A mangy stray dog barked in protest far outside the hut. From Wordnik.com. [Story to Forget] Reference
I'm however no better than a wallowing pig or a mangy cow!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
'Have it back, you mangy dog, have it back?' screamed Antkowa. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
An idle dog will be mangy; and how shall an idle person escape?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
You know a little dirty and mangy looking, but they were babies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2004] Reference
The loss of the mangy-looking dog was more than Heath could stand. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
She remembers a mangy mutt dog, wasn't the type you wanted to pet. From Wordnik.com. [Weasel] Reference
Esther found entertainment in the mangy cur's rejoicing in the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
When his mangy friends accompanied him, she found herself standing alone. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Ape Girl Baby] Reference
"Sovereign of Constantinople" -- (and of all its mangy, flea-bitten dogs). From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
She was holding a mangy silver tabby, its coat matched the color of her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Fergus Incident] Reference
That's like having a mangy dog category at the Westminster Dog and Kennel Show. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003] Reference
We had a dog on board, but he was a lazy, mangy fellow, and gave us little trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
"And a better death than to die, lying on damp straw in yonder cave like a mangy tyke!". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
When he fires that, take out your pistols and shoot him down like the mangy scoundrel he is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2004] Reference
My heart grows sick over this mangy, scrofulous period of our national disease; give me air!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He was sitting in the back seat and still nibbling away like a white-topped mangy old squirrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
They are the old mangy bears that bother tourists, Jesse James bears, that they want to get rid of. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
As if that weren't strange enough, next she wrote a book with that damned, mangy, ill-tempered dog. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2001] Reference
Mr. Allan, "earnestly," he ain't mangy, an 'he's the most willin' dog I ever seen fer any one that loves him. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
Not that we're insular, mind you, but to hear some of these mangy foreigners talking about the Brotherhood of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference
Powell's heart leaped as he noted that the Silver Belts were still draped over the mangy old monarch's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference
"It has a name," replied Pao Ch'ai; "the mangy-headed bonze also told it me; he called it 'cold fragrance' pill.". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
'That is so, but when he has looked round to see that no one is listening, he tells you that a German is a mangy dog. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
They settled on a mangy plantation up the coast, north of Davao, but they aren't working: just loafing around all day. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
But a second look showed him those ribs starting through mangy fur in visible hoops, the skin tight over the skull, far too tight. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
She had been shown Sheiks in Biskra who drove hard bargains to hire out mangy camels and sore-covered donkeys for trips into the interior. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
You know the one: an overweight Rooney, with a white vest and a mangy beard, living in a caravan, peering out behind greying net curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Rooney must put World Cup behind him as he kicks off his season] Reference
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