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fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat peopleor:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
- Shrek, the lovable green ogre.
ogre = a giant from a fairy tale
- One day, a giant ogre attacked the village.
- There might be ogres and giants under the stairs, —but, as I tell Hannah, there MIGHT be elves and fairies and enchanted frogsKate Douglas Wiggin -- Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
- ogres with monstrous teeth, and...C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Ella, it's not safe here with the ogres.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- "You don't know my father," I said, like he was some big ogre, chasing boys across the yard with a shotgun.Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
- "David," Rudy said in a reassuring voice as he held my shoulders, "I know I bark at you quite a bit, and you may think I'm an ogre."Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
- There's an Ogre or two and a Hag that we could introduce you to, up there.C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- Monstrous shapes have been sighted in the woods—rumors of ogres and werewolves are rampant.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Yes, I know what some of you have read about ogres, but our Bob is a reformed ogre and...Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- Snatching the spade, the ogre abruptly snapped it in two and seized Max by the collar.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- When I left the plantation, I drew a long breath, and felt as if I had escaped from an ogre's den."Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The ogres are in the suburbs.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- He looked out of place among humans, like an ogre in a storybook.Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
- The line of javelins chewed through the enemy like a set of giant teeth, felling ogres and snake women and hellhounds.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- The ogres shuffled forward.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
- 'Parenting experts' make women feel like ogres if they slip out of the house to work or skip a reading of Goodnight Moon.Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- How I loathed this sleeping ogre!Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
ogres = frightening giants
ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people
ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person (in fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people)
ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person
ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant
ogres = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
ogre = fairy tales: a frightening giant — especially one who likes to eat people
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
or:
an evil, hideous, and frightening person
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