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ogre

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ogre
(in folklore) a giant, usually given to eating human flesh


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Grendel indeed was slain, but his mother, an ogre almost as fierce as he, was ready to avenge him.
The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
"Why have you brought such excitement into my theater;" the huge fellow asked Pinocchio with the voice of an ogre suffering with a cold.
 
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