English example sentences with "maul"

Chimpanzees have been known to maul their owners.
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"I want to see a dinosaur!" "Which one: the one that will brutally maul you or the one that will accidentally crush you beneath its feet?" "N-not all dinosaurs are like that!"
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For some half-hour he tried to comfort himself with an idea that he could get hold of Captain Marrable and maul him; that it would be a thing permissible for him, a magistrate, to go forth with a whip and flog the man, and then perhaps shoot him, because the man had been fortunate in love where he had been unfortunate.
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Translators are the sworn enemies of jokes; the exigencies of their deplorable trade cause them to maul the poor little things about while they are putting them into new clothes, and the result is death, or at the least an appearance of vacuous senescence; but jokes are only the crystallization of humour; it exists also in less tangible forms, such as style and all that collection of effects vaguely lumped together and called "atmosphere."
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