Ogre

(noun.) (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings.

录入:门罗

• Ogre that he was, he spoke like an epicure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• You might suppose him to be an ogre from what he says, and I believe he has the reputation of one with some people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Do you suppose I eat like an ogre or a ghoul, that you dread being the companion of my repast? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To hear her speak of you, her protectress, her mother, would bring tears to the eyes of ogres. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We might have been a party of Ogres, the conversation assumed such a sanguine complexion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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