Then soldiers appeared—good-looking, undersized men—wearing each a knapsack covered with mangy fur, and a great-coat which had been cut for some larger soldier.
" That mangy old half-blood has been stealing Black heirlooms? " said Phineas Nigellus, incensed; and he stalked out of his frame, undoubtedly to visit his portrait in number twelve, Grimmauld Place.
I was down here reading the paper, and I heard this commotion up in your room. So- so naturally, I go running up there. And this mangy raccoon had busted through your screen.
She came bounding down again in a great hurry, opened a battered and mangy old hair trunk, found it empty, and looked round with her hands clasped and her face full of terror.