Perhaps it is mangel-wurzel that we see in Rasputin. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
In Europe there is grown widely a large beet they call the mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Certainly there is mangel-wurzel in the music of Wagner, although it is another composer whose name begins, B-e-e-t. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
The first winter it had to consume the greater part of the ton of mangel-wurzel we had bought "to keep our cows together.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference
He skirts their fires, stealthy - All he wants is a handful of greens here, a carrot or mangel-wurzel there, just to keep him going. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
At the commencement of the winter, a cow-keeper in the neighborhood told our man that we should give our cows a little mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference
= la betterave fourragère = mangel-wurzel, fodder beet. From Wordnik.com. [betterave - French Word-A-Day] Reference
"Then I withdraw 'mangel-wurzel,'" said Simpson gallantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Holiday Round] Reference
Then he turns round and glances at the mangel-wurzel field. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19] Reference
Doves for a bishop and the little mangel-wurzel for the labouring man. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
I usually raise from ten to fifteen acres of mangel-wurzel every year. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
I should either sow the field to barley, or drill in mangel-wurzel or Swede-turnips. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
We are not likely to err in making the land too rich for mangel-wurzel or for sugar-beets grown for stock. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
Deeping they came upon Tom Cobb leaning over a gate surveying a field of mangel-wurzel with vacant amiability. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrible Twins] Reference
"This is the Royal Navy, not Newmarket"; and we carried Persimmon to the top of the mangel-wurzel clump as directed. From Wordnik.com. [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference
Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
When sugar-beets are grown for food, we may safely manure them as we would mangel-wurzel, and treat the two crops precisely alike. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
Sow the mangel-wurzel in May -- the earlier the better -- and the Swedes as soon afterwards as the land can be thoroughly prepared. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
Why, he don't know a swede from a mangel-wurzel. ". From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Is the onion or the mangel-wurzel to be your hero? ". From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
"they come up here for sartain, an 'runs out 'long the heydge to the mangel-wurzel mound, I lay.". From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
A big flower either, while "Slocum," which came without the asking, was bigger than a mangel-wurzel!. From Wordnik.com. [Sailing Alone Around the World] Reference
Out, damned mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
"And to mangel-wurzel, " added Alobar. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Another hath a mangel-wurzel nose, —. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Great Unknown] Reference
1,200 bushels of mangel-wurzel per acre, on the average. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
Experiments on mangel-wurzel 568, 569. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Vincy to write on turnips and mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
A mangel-wurzel, so he chucked that. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
A sprig of mangel-wurzel of an armful of hay. From Wordnik.com. [InstaPunk] Reference
'mangel-wurzel.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Holiday Round] Reference
83. 1. mangel-wurzel. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
mangel-wurzel, 568. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
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