Read full poem →out of their several qualities, may be questionable. If so, we must say he
managed to scratch his own fingers with the pin, to miss his shot with the
bolt, and to spill the liquor extracted from the essence of knavery. The
Dictionary Entry
To direct or be in charge of.
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Common Phrases
care managed. managed
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Poetry examples for “managed”
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Read full poem →graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up
on both sides, and swiitly managed : And this our forefathers (if not we)
have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection than
Read full poem →And rough jades' mouths with stubborn bits are torn,
But managed horses' heads are lightly borne.[136]
Unwilling lovers, love doth more torment,
Read full poem →Malty had managed to get next to Latnah, and put
his arm round her waist so quietly that it was some mo-
Read full poem →themselves to wine and song. However, after a little
well-managed, persistent persuasion, one of them, a
swarthy, thin-faced, middling type, was carried off.
Read full poem →ries about them. They liked especially to show how the
weaker animals managed to get on with stronger ani-
mals. In the stories the animals talk like men, but they
Read full poem →I've managed the needful to borrow,
Read full poem →And I--soon managed to find
Weak points in the flower-fence facing,
Read full poem →I guess they thought I'd spiked him in the temple
Before I buried him, or I couldn't have managed.
They excavated more. 'Go keep his wife
Read full poem →forehead in a pool, the Chief Engineer of the Kashi Bridge was
wondering how he had managed to fall upon the island, what chances the
day offered of return, and, above all, how his work stood.