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.
She was dressed very poorly and she had what looked like a sort, some kind of fur hat, a rather mangy fur hat, and on this hat was fixed a ra, a crook-like feather, a very, very long crook-like feather.