All 14 Uses
ogre
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and taloned man-devouring ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.†
Chpt 4
- Now as to this castle, with forty-five princesses in it, and three ogres at the head of it, tell me—where is this harem?†
Chpt 11 *
- My expedition was all the talk that day and that night, and the boys were very good to me, and made much of me, and seemed to have forgotten their vexation and disappointment, and come to be as anxious for me to hive those ogres and set those ripe old virgins loose as if it were themselves that had the contract.†
Chpt 11
- But it never occurred to one of them to reflect that if I was such a wonderful necromancer as I was pretending to be, I ought not to need salves or instructions, or charms against enchantments, and, least of all, arms and armor, on a foray of any kind—even against fire-spouting dragons, and devils hot from perdition, let alone such poor adversaries as these I was after, these commonplace ogres of the back settlements.†
Chpt 11
- We couldn't seem to meet anybody in this lonesome Britain, not even an ogre; and, in the mood I was in then, it was well for the ogre; that is, an ogre with a handkerchief.†
Chpt 12
- We couldn't seem to meet anybody in this lonesome Britain, not even an ogre; and, in the mood I was in then, it was well for the ogre; that is, an ogre with a handkerchief.†
Chpt 12
- We couldn't seem to meet anybody in this lonesome Britain, not even an ogre; and, in the mood I was in then, it was well for the ogre; that is, an ogre with a handkerchief.†
Chpt 12
- I was ready for any giant or any ogre that might come along, now.†
Chpt 14
- CHAPTER XX — THE OGRE'S CASTLE†
Chpt 20
- She said we were approaching the ogre's castle.†
Chpt 20
- The ogres, Are they changed also?†
Chpt 20
- All I need to know is, how much of an ogre is invisible; then I know how to locate his vitals.†
Chpt 20
- He knew somewhat about the warfare of the time—bushwhacking around for ogres, and bull-fights in the tournament ring, and such things—but otherwise he was empty and useless.†
Chpt 25
- Then we would make up the rest of the standing army out of commonplace materials, and officer it with nobodies, as was proper—nobodies selected on a basis of mere efficiency—and we would make this regiment toe the line, allow it no aristocratic freedom from restraint, and force it to do all the work and persistent hammering, to the end that whenever the King's Own was tired and wanted to go off for a change and rummage around amongst ogres and have a good time, it could go without uneasiness, knowing that matters were in safe hands behind it, and business going to be continued at the old stand, same as usual.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(ogre) a frightening giant from fairy tales, especially one who eats people; or a cruel or terrifying person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)