ogress

Example Sentences

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In the case of voracious Slapu, elders warn the children to come home before nightfall because of the ogress waiting in the woods skirting Port Gamble Bay.

From Seattle Times

The ogress and the orphans do the ridding, with cleareyed ingenuity.

From New York Times

The lace is sometimes vicious, the blood sometimes dainty, but everything is always graceful and pretty — even an ogress fantasizing about eating people is actually dreaming of marzipan and butter.

From New York Times

When he said it, the ogress jerked her head up.

From Literature

No, she had never been the ogress he had thought her a year ago.

From Literature