Sentence Examples:
His face and his clothes were badly mauled.
Was it possible for one to take such a terrific mauling and not succumb?
Nevertheless, coming to an argument with the released convicts, whom he would have sent to his lady Dulcinea, he himself, and Sancho, too, were as mauled by the convicts as even those self-same officers.
They looked as if they could most shamelessly kiss and maul her.
He was terribly mauled, but he knew that no bones were broken, and a gasp of thankfulness fell from his lips.
It must be well beaten down with paving mauls.
And now there is a "maul" or "scrimmage."
The redwood posts are driven into the ground with mauls.
Children were often crushed by carts, trampled by horses, or mauled by pigs.
He is rather badly mauled, and whimpers a good deal.
These mauls and hammers were usually made by choosing an oval stone and pecking a groove about its shortest diameter.
It is, nevertheless, best to retire out of their way when charging sheep in packs, for they then seem seized with a blind fury, and some who have endeavored to fight them have been thrown down and seriously mauled.
Well, Squire, Tom was badly mauled and John was tired when I arrived as peacemaker.
Martin and Brown were separately attacked and slain, one with a maul, the other with a musket.
The men would be making ax handles and beating the husk off of the corn in a large wooden hopper with a maul.
The shield bears a Rose; with a Maul, as the exact phonetic equivalent for the expletive.
Six feet of maul-swinging humanity had eaten much, even in midsummer.
He "lined" the fence's course and cleared the way rudely through the forest, a work of days, and then he made the maul.
The beetle is a monster hammer, the maul a monster mace.
People could not be expected to take kindly to having their chauffeur mauled and disabled like that.
It seemed to him he was getting an entirely disproportionate reward for mauling an insolent chauffeur.
Haven't been mauled by a grizzly, have you?
It was promptly returned, and found a devious way back to its owner in a somewhat dusty and mauled condition.
Not a whimper out of the guy and him mauled to a pulp.
Thomas Jefferson had a sincere respect for his own prowess, and a boy might have been mauled into subjection.
The leopard knocked the old boy flat and began to maul him.
Basaltic maul, grooved in the middle like the preceding.
Fate does not always kill, it is true; but you have not that one chance against her which your weapon gives you against the lion, and she may maul you badly before she has done with you, even worse than the biggest cat would.
Literally it means "to hit with a hammer," and comes from maul or mall, the name of a certain very heavy kind of hammer; so that when a child is told not to "maul" a book, it is literally being told not to hit it with a heavy hammer.
When the escaped tigress is back in her cage, men look to the bars, for none wants a second mauling.
The poor beast, which the alligator had mauled, had managed to get ashore and that was all.
I met him with a maul, and parried his blow, or I should have then lost my life.
Mauled in the scuffle he ran with his meek face upside down!
The dagger made my chisel; my sword, wrapped in a cloth to muffle the strokes, furnished me a maul.
It was probably a case of numbness; you maul your thumb with a hammer, and it will hurt just so long before it stops.
Let these mauled bits be intimations of what a little care might have made a little better.
A maul or beetle is a heavy wooden mallet.
It was only after it had leaped on the hunter and frightfully mauled him that the lion succumbed to its wounds.
It is not pleasant to be mauled by a huge mastiff.
He staggered up and struck out with his maul-like fist.
"How did he happen to get you down and maul you in this startling manner?"
He found him out in a blackberry patch and mauled him to death.
A small bird shot with a rifle is not worth bothering with unless excessively rare, and a fur bearer which the dogs have been allowed to maul and chew is very difficult to put in satisfactory condition.
"You guys sure mauled me up," he said accusingly.
The panther then left mauling me to attack the dog.
At last the two ringleaders succeeded in clearing away the furious mob from the mauled and trampled body of the squire.
The team ran away, and the Indian mauled Sutherland.
Countless peaceable individuals are struck down and mauled, dragged to prison and many of them are mortally wounded.
Used for mauls and mallets, tool handles, etc., and locally for construction.
Willy looked, and not fifty yards away, with their ends resting on old stumps, were three or four "hacks," or piles of rails, which had been mauled the season before and left there, probably having been forgotten or overlooked.
In a second he was on the floor, three husky seamen mauling him.
On the way back one of the men grew sleepy and would have lain down to die except for the vigorous treatment of Burton, who mauled him and dragged him about and rubbed him with snow until his blood began to circulate once more.
However, I can forego the delights of being mauled for one afternoon, I reckon, and am at your service, fair lady.
It would have been a case of 'generous opponents each working his way to the truth from opposite sides,' not the case of a 'touching though slightly hysterical victim, mauled from time to time by a sleepy tyrant in his intervals of fury
They still found some Russians there, severely mauled by the bombardment; but they could no longer present a front.
What has mauling my face got to with the resurrection of this damsel?
He ran to the dog and began to maul him joyously.
The great wedges were placed in position, and the heavy stroke of one of the mauls resounded through the valley.
Watkins, evidently on edge from his mauling by the children, whirled on the Mexican.
Many that have been mauled, "scented" by a beaver scout and left, must be replaced.
He did not trouble himself at that moment to investigate the strangeness of the disappearance of his maul.
Bob had found the maul lying on the floor in the gable.
We had to improvise a cage at night to keep him from mauling us and keeping us awake.
"Neither have I," whined Seth, "and I'm nearly dead with having been mauled about so much."
There are few things more congenial to certain gentlemen than a chance to maul an easy victim.
The general's brawny arm was mauled a long time; and even then not much blood was obtained.
Being a notorious crazy man, and very savagely mauled, they did not hang him.
He mauled her tits and felt the pressure build in his balls.
It mauled their persons like a hand, and caused every scrap of their raiment to tug westward.
Still gripping it with the tongs, a blacksmith's maul in his right hand, Joe shaped the shoe on the anvil.
He stood on my lap and mauled my face, and pulled my hair, and hugged me with his stout little arms and kissed me big, soft, wet kisses, and something sprang to life in my heart that never before had been there.
The Chief's own cook and several of his companions had been mauled out in the plain by a leopard.
We went up to her (as she paused in the doorway, with her hand on her heart, she appeared to be suffering), and told her, thinking to reassure her, that the tiger had been shot by the gardener while mauling his son.
I know that sort of Berliners; they'd have torn the clothes off her back and mauled and beaten her without mercy.
The dried meat was heated through over a low fire, and then beaten with sticks or mauls to shreds.
Now Mark, though excited with his luck, was cool enough to observe one little precaution, which was to use a fresh clean worm every time, and not to drop in one that had been in the least degree mauled.
They were freed of their bonds, and after a battle during which nearly every member of the party had been more or less mauled by the spirited beasts, the horse hunters succeeded in saddling and bridling Satan and the Angel.
His biceps and shoulders ached as though they had been mauled; his back was shot with hot stabs of pain.
Although he killed the lioness, he was seriously mauled, and was laid up for a considerable period in consequence.
Not that he loved her less, but that he felt almost irresistibly impelled to reach out and paw and maul her.
The troops were terribly mauled; the dead lay in crowds, a ghastly testimony of their impetuous courage.
Children may pounce upon and maul small moving things for a number of reasons.
Nay, if so, though they should pommel and maul me for a month to come, I shall yet be their obedient humble servant.'
The pain in his leg bothered him, but he was not going to stop for a thing like that and let a wildcat maul him.
He was badly mauled by a leopard a few months ago, and the chief brought him to the mission to be treated.
He would gladly have gone to the death for her; nor was this all boasting, for at nine years old he was severely mauled because, on this account, he would fight against ten or twelve at once, of whom three at least were older than he.
And Tess darted from the room to pounce on the cat, which did not seem to mind very much being mauled by the children.
Morty flung himself bodily upon Lad; hauling and mauling the stately collie this way and that.
The man had been so terribly mauled that his life was ebbing fast.
Edward's journey had been uneventful, except that one of his Fan attendants had been mauled badly by a wounded leopard.
He arrived with a cow, calf and three oxen, and had to support his family by mauling rails in the rain, to earn the wheat, peas and potatoes we ate, as that was all we could get, as bread was out of the question.
He had many times caught her eye fixed admiringly upon him as he mauled the retainer.
The boy had leaped from the sled and was mauling the rough coat playfully.
They mauled the poor fellows with inexorable malice and ignoble ingenuity.
Then he caught sight of the piece of cloth, picked it up, and looked at the mauled and blood-stained muck on it.
There's information to hand that one of our gunboats got mauled a few days ago.
The ladies urged fresh recruits against the pit, and each fresh levy was mauled.
As it was, the poor fellow got mauled and trampled upon dreadfully.
"Why, by building a little snow bank between the big snow bank and the house, hammering it into solid ice, with our mauls, and in that way making a ditch that will carry off the water around the end of the house and down over the cliff."