"Wangle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... climbed in and took his seat beside her. "That's another thing that disguised you. How was I to guess that you'd wangle a Staff car ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... Bellews. He picked up the two machines. "Don't get me started about the kinda guys that wangle headquarters-company jobs! They got a special talent for fallin' soft. But they ...
— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... cackled Furneaux delightedly. "I'll wangle that in on a respected colleague of mine, who is a whale at deducing a proposition from given premises, but cannot induce a general fact from particular instances to save his life ... Now, stifle your romantic frenzy, Mr. Grant, and listen to me. If you ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... unostentatiously in the background until both boats are full, and then you state a piteous case of urgent family affairs to the right officer, to find yourself eventually crossing with the comfort-loving civilians in their special boat. Robert was entirely satisfied with the way he wangled it, but, meaning to wangle it again in a few months' time, he decided to tell no one about it, not even John. But he did tell John as soon as he saw him, and John told the world. Thus, a further series of G.R.O.'s got written, published, and very carefully brought to the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 31, 1917 • Various
... be done. We can't sell a man what we haven't got. Joe, couldn't you go and play golf this afternoon whilst I wangle this matter out?" ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace |
