The ogreish lack of manners had paid off in this respect. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
Then Okra set her on pillows and sang ogreish songs until Mela faded away to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
Arthur and his affections, clearly this is parental screwing up on an ogreish, fairy-tale level. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: Here Be Dragons] Reference
Immediately she regretted it, because she could tell by the reactions of the others that she had pulled another ogreish social blunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
Thus his progress was slow, for of course he was doing what it was in an ogre's nature to do: setting the world along his route into ogreish order. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
As a matter of fact, they gnawed it in an ogreish fashion, and in such haste that they could scarcely stop to plunge their bones into the salt for a flavouring. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
His mastery of folktale archetypes -- the poor charcoal burner, the ogreish Barrows, the Peter-Pan-like Brother Boy, the strange-eyed girl touched by faerie -- is compelling as well. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
"I've seen the corp!" he announced in an ogreish whisper. From Wordnik.com. [Shining Ferry] Reference
He had slits for eyes, and the great face, dough-like, was set in an ogreish smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
His turn as Batman, though surface-based, was ogreish compared to previous actors 'takes. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"I just can't understand it," he said, and rarely has this hard, sometimes ogreish man looked so human. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
As he wiped his dripping whiskers in an ogreish way, he met her eyes, and pausing, said, with no very gentle voice. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Grandmama was beating time with her hand on the arm of her chair to the merry music-hall tune and the ogreish words. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Ages] Reference
Pravda in 1985 at the National Theatre, and still vividly remember his reptilian portrayal of ogreish press baron, Lambert Le Roux. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The son, an ogreish pattern of his father, had stood with his back to the Madonna, whose overfat arms had seemed to rest on his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
"Yes, dear," and Mr. MacMahon then said "Hum" and "Ha" and "Gr-r-r-up" in a truly terrible and ogreish manner; and in her distant chamber Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Here are Ladies] Reference
Culwin had contrived to stimulate his curiosities without robbing them of their young bloom of awe seemed to me a sufficient answer to Murchard's ogreish metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes] Reference
It is a ghoulish and ogreish idea, but it really seems as if the elder Milton quartered his progeny upon his debtors, as the ichneumon fly quarters hers upon caterpillars. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
He needed a shave -- Yetsko always did, in the mornings -- and in his leather Literates 'guard uniform, he looked like some ogreish giant out of the mythology of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Null-ABC] Reference
All the while some old dame would relate the old-world ogreish stories of Blue Beard, the Sorcerer, or the Loup Garou, to fascinate the ears and trouble the dreams of the young folks. From Wordnik.com. [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference
I really could not help thinking that these monsters of the deep possessed some such intelligence, as they swam around the fated barque -- casting towards it their ogreish expecting looks. From Wordnik.com. [Ran Away to Sea] Reference
Indeed, the skill with which Culwin had contrived to stimulate his curiosities without robbing them of their young bloom of awe seemed to me a sufficient answer to Murchard's ogreish metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
Welfare Statists, One Worlders, or, at any rate, such ogreish semblances of these as may stalk the nightmares of those who think little about people as people, but tend to think a great deal in labels and effigies. From Wordnik.com. [Hub Blog] Reference
Ormskirk began, and made a tiny gesture of deprecation, "I perceive you are about to appeal to my better nature, and so I warn you in advance that the idiotic business has worked me into a temper absolutely ogreish.". From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
His reproving expression turned softer, although compassion contrasted with his ogreish appearance. ". From Wordnik.com. [Fat Tuesday]
It smirched Umlaut's arm, making it look ogreish. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed to-day.) "And you can refuse, you mean, eh?. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
It's as if Rumplestiltskin had been bested by the Queen who secretly learned his true name, such was AD's ugly ogreish passion in his attacks on Fisk, Jimmy Carter and others ". From Wordnik.com. [Peoples Geography --- Reclaiming space] Reference
Yet dwelt she in the ogreish holde. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference
He did not look in the least ogreish. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
Had the ogreish thing slaughtered them all?. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
A dreadfully ogreish way. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
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