mangel-wurzels

From town to town we go, fair to fair, sleeping in fields, eating those awful mangel-wurzels, selling pretty smells to hypocrites, and hard-ons to yeomen.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

The rumour that the hippopotamus demanded a pailful of jam with its mangel-wurzels, in the belief that they were some kind of homoeopathic pill, appears to have been baseless.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

It wasn't a _h_ouse, Jerry, I wish you to understand; it was merely a little 'ouse standing in its own grounds like, with a brace or so of chickens and a few mangel-wurzels a-climbin' round the place.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various

I was confronted by a large flabby individual, who grasped a cabbage in one hand and a number of mangel-wurzels in the other.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

"But in Shropshire, they tell me, they are having trouble with the mangel-wurzels."

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928

She did not know that it was a mother rat with young ones outside squeaking faintly in the stack of mangel-wurzels; she did not know, as it hopped round and round, that its beady eyes were glittering with a great agony, and that the Mother of all was powerless to break down a mere wire or two and save it.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Either the pheasants were preying on the mangel-wurzels or the mangel-wurzels were preying on the pheasants.

Europe Revised 1910

It won't hurt it, it's had mangel-wurzels in already.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

Easier said than done, now that every wisp in the drought-afflicted South is worth its weight in mangel-wurzels.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

It smelt of rot and old mangel-wurzels—but what it didn’t smell of was petrol and burning fuselage.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010