ogress
Example Sentences
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Slapu, a 9-foot-tall ogress with long claws and sharp teeth, has one child in her basket, another in one hand — and the other is grasping for you.
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
Previous screen ogresses, such as those of Fatal Attraction, Misery or Play Misty for Me, have often been infatuated with men.
From The Guardian
At any cost of pain to herself or others duty must be done--the little ones rescued from the ogress.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
