mangold-wurzel

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• James Mangold directed a remake of the film in 2007, starring Christian Bale as Evans and Russell Crowe as Wade.

• Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

• Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

• Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

• But these hidden passions were before young farmer Wurzel, in his blue tie and white hat, had proposed to her.

• Old Mrs. Wurzel turned confidentially to the vicar's wife and said, "Is her engagement generally known?"