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Definition of Ogreishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogreishly
Literary usage of Ogreishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Labor Catechism of Political Economy: A Study for the People. Comprising by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1878)
"There appears, ogreishly rising before the industrial world, another threatening
spectre, in form of two, or three extraordinary inventions. ..."
2. The Man of Iron by Richard Dehan (1915)
"He surveyed the small slight figure before him rather ogreishly from under his
shaggy brows. '' And so,'' 'he said, with his wounding irony, "you thought to ..."
3. In the "Stranger People's" Country: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree, Charles Egbert Craddock, Harper & Brothers (1891)
"A great, distorted silhouette of his own head appeared upon the wall, leaning
ogreishly over the pillow. IIe noted these things in the midnight. ..."
4. The Myopes by Marmaduke William Pickthall (1907)
"When he did return, it was to stop her breath with the proposal, ogreishly made,
to bear her off to Paris the following week. Thus obliged to look forward, ..."
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