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Ogress

noun

(folklore) a female ogre.

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"Ogress" Quotes from Famous Books

... ogress! Was she just trifling with him? Could it be possible that she saw through him? As he looked down at her the eyes fastened on him were as ...

— Santa Claus's Partner • Thomas Nelson Page

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... and it is very doubtful whether even I can do it peaceably, for that old Hagar, who, by the way, is a curious specimen, gave me to understand when I lay on the rock, with her sitting by, as a sort of ogress, that so long as she lived no city chap with strapped pants (do pray, bring me a pair, George, without straps!) and sneering mouth was going to fool with ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

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... mean Mr. Swift," appealed Mary Nestor, in a whisper, to our hero. "Can't you give some sort of a lecture? The girls are just crazy to hear about the airship, and this ogress won't let ...

— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton

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... dark-blue handkerchief. "The winter's sass is hardly put in the cellar 'fore we have to cut off the sprouts, and up the taters for planting agin. We shall all foller him soon." And she stirred the bones in the great kettle with the vigor of an ogress. ...

— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard

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... "Hammer-troll ogress has done him to death. Thirsting for blood the war-fiend came. With hard-edged blade she gaped, o'er his head, nor spared she his teeth. ...

— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown

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