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Definition of Ogres
1. ogre [n] - See also: ogre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogres
Literary usage of Ogres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"ogres OF HINDOO DEMONOLOGY. BY JT BUNCE. THOSE famous Hindu demons, the Rakshas,
are the originals of all the ogres and giants of our nursery tales. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"AN EXPEDITION AGAINST ogres From <A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's ...
and come to be as anxious for me to hive those ogres and set those ripe old ..."
3. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"In my own young days there used to be play ogres — men who would devour a ...
I believe these card and dice ogres have died away almost as entirely as the ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Were dragons the same as ogres ? monsters dwelling in caverns, whence they rushed,
attired in plate armour, wielding pikes and torches, and destroying stray ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Ugrian stock, we can adduce only the ogres of our nursery tales, and perhaps the
Hone flints. Our Klint hills, our Rime frost, our Grundl?, our Gogmagog ..."
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