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Definition of Mangals
1. mangal [n] - See also: mangal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mangals
Literary usage of Mangals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern Life and Scenery: With Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete by Mary Adelaide Walker (1886)
"Concerning mangals.—The Origin of the Deluge.— The Old 'Woman of Knf a.—Carrier
Pigeons, and the Fate of Yezid and ..."
2. Khartoum Campaign, 1898, Or, The Re-conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh (1899)
"Fortunately, early intimation of the mangals' hostile intentions reached Fort
... with a handful of soldiers, drove before them a large body of mangals, ..."
3. The Afghan War of 1879-80 by Howard Hensman (1881)
"It is impossible to foretell when an attack will be made; but so serious did the
chance seem yesterday, of large numbers of the mangals coming down in this ..."
4. A Scientific Frontier; Or, The Danger of a Russian Invasion of India by John Dacosta (1891)
"The task being over, there remained only two alternatives— either to fight the
mangals or to retire. The latter course was decided on; the enemy were in ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1885)
"... but amongst some tribes of the mangals, headed by one Sadu Khan, a noted
freebooter. It appears that Muhammad Hasan Khan, ex-governor of ..."
6. Across the Border: Or Pathan and Biloch by Edward Emmerson Oliver (1890)
"... is one ruling that an unarmed Jadran is liable to be fined an ox, to be eaten
in full tribal assembly. The mangals—possibly hailing from ..."
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