This man, confiding his troubles, did not seem the ogre he had been painted.
The only ogre shape whose boding presence for him has terrors is this avenging "sprite," Paul's growing craze.
In far Bombay Alice conjured Oswald's fleshless skeleton into a fearful ogrefright for Paul Lanier.
Would the little ogre pass without repugnance from the gamey flavour of a corpse to the scent of flowers?
It is the tiger of the peaceful insect peoples; the ogre in ambush which demands a tribute of living flesh.
Finally the exhausted corpse is abandoned; regretfully, it seems, for from time to time I have seen the ogre return to the feast and repeat its manipulation of the body.
The ferocious beast of prey, theogre who devours all creatures that are not too strong for him, is himself killed and eaten: by his fellows, and by many others.
I think the ogre has come out to the edge of his cave and is scarcely winking as he watches us down here.
You were going to tell me how the ogre was able to force you to marry him," he said.
She found that the small yellow building near the drive which Carder had pointed out to her was the place where he spent most of his time: the cave of the ogre she named it.
He had to follow me and guard me wherever I went, always keeping at a distance, because he mustn't speak to me and the ogre was always watching.
I was quite certain that I was going to be a farmer myself, long ago when I was a little boy, and not an Ogre at all.
And then they creep up to me, where I am sitting as a quiet comfortable Ogre should, smoking or reading.
Was this the ogre of The Follies, the terrible girl who kept every one away from the place, whom the servants dreaded, whom the governesses fled from?
The ogre then pronounced these remarkable words, swinging our little hero through the immensity of space at every word, and finally plunging him feline fathoms below water, in a dark wooden-bound lake of murky water (bucket?
And then, had he better slay the ogre at once, and mingle his blood with his Irish stew, or wait until he had gorged himself.
The sun had gone down behind the distant window-frame; but the ogre had just lighted two moons, and placed them conveniently on the end of brass pipes, for which kind action Blinks postponed his execution sine die.
Perceiving presently that the ogre had abandoned his transformation, Puss descended, and owned to having been thoroughly frightened.
The ogre's wife, in great alarm, gave him immediately all that she had, for although this was an ogre who devoured little children, he was by no means a bad husband.
He told his brothers to flee at once to their home while the ogre was still sleeping soundly, and not to worry about him.
Have you not heard that this is the house of an ogre who eats little children?
The first thing the ogre did was to ask whether supper was ready and the wine opened.
In this way, if theogre were to feel like slaughtering them that night he would mistake the girls for the boys, and vice versa.
This had been prepared by theogre for some friends who were to pay him a visit that very day.
The ogre received him as civilly as an ogre can, and bade him sit down.
The cat had taken care to find out who this ogre was, and what powers he possessed.
He was the richest ogre that had ever been known, for all the lands through which the king had passed were part of the castle domain.
They were not more than a few yards from their home when they saw the ogre striding from hill-top to hill-top, and stepping over rivers as though they were merely tiny streams.
Little Tom Thumb was fearful lest the ogre should suddenly regret that he had not cut the throats of himself and his brothers the evening before.
Now the ogre was feeling very tired after so much fruitless marching (for seven-league boots are very fatiguing to their wearer), and felt like taking a little rest.
That is my will,' said the queen; and she spoke in the tones of an ogre who longs for raw meat.
So when the little girl came to see her that night, she made her go to bed in a nice little bed she'd made for her, and told her she was to be quite still, for perhaps a' ogre was coming to see her.
There he sat, refusing to come down, until the Ogre changed himself into his natural form, and laughingly called to him that he would not hurt him.
Then Puss ventured back into the room, and began to compliment the Ogre on his cleverness.
And in a moment a little brown mouse was frisking about all over the floor, whilst the Ogre had vanished.
At the same moment all the gentlemen and ladies whom the wicked Ogre had held in his castle under a spell, became disenchanted.
The Ogre was only too pleased to find a chance of showing how very clever he was, so he promised to transform himself into any animal Puss might mention.
Immediately there appeared where the Ogre had been seated, an enormous lion, roaring, and lashing with its tail, and looking as though it meant to gobble the cat up in a trice.
In short, it was Baldy the Eagle, the ogre of the air,--and an ogre that especially delighted in having fawn for supper!
Fear nothing,' said the ogre again; and when he went away to hunt he left her to look after the house.
In the evening the ogre saw him there and said to him, 'Jew, what are you doing here?
The ogre moved sleepily, and asked, 'What did the meat say, Dschemila?
The ogre got out of bed, gave the dog a kick, then went back again, and slept till morning.
So Dschemil took the pin from his cloak and threw it behind him, and a dense thicket of thorns sprang up round them, which the ogre and his dog could not pass through.
Dschemil from the chest; 'we must fly now while the ogre is asleep.
So the ogre accompanied the prince and his attendants back to the palace.
The next morning the ogre awoke with the first ray of light, and the first thing he did was to look for the key.
We will break it down, my dog and I,' cried the ogre in a rage, and they dashed at the mountain till they had forced a path through, and came ever nearer and nearer.
Oh, Puss thought he was a very wonderfulogre indeed.
Yes, the ogre could do that, too, and at once he turned himself into a mouse, and ran, scampering gayly about the room.
Then the ogre turned himself back into his own shape, and he laughed and laughed.
When the ogre saw the little cat in his fine shiny, creaking boots he was so amused that he laughed aloud.
He made his way into the castle and ran along into one room after another until he came to where the ogre was sitting.
Now all these things really belonged to an ogre who was very rich and fierce and strong and terrible, and after awhile Puss came to the castle where the ogre lived.
I only wanted to see you because everyone says you are the strongest and most wonderful ogre in all the world.
When theogre heard that he was much pleased, for he was very vain.
Jeanne, smiling, looked at this good giant whom one would have thought was an ogre at the very sight of his mustaches, and she thought: "How one may be deceived each day about everybody.
The ogre to whatsoever No Man's Land he betook himself would forever be haunted by the phantom of the elf.
The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife.
Anything less like an ogre than our overgrown baby of a friend it would he impossible to imagine.
And we left our nervous ogreand our poor little elf to fight out between themselves whatever battle they had to fight.
Many and tragic were the tales narrated of the prowess of the Ogre when the hot blood of youth boiled in his warrior veins.
Then they all fled through the wood and hid in a rock, while the Ogre in his seven-league boots, pursued them and lay down to rest at the rock in which they were hidden.
The transformation of theOgre into a Lion and again into a Mouse, and the consequent climax of Puss's management of the Mouse, bring in the touch of the miraculous.
But after winning in these tests, he is required to conquer a great Ogre who dwells in the forest, and later to prove himself cleverer in intellect than the princess by telling the greater falsehood.
The flight of the brothers pursued by the Ogre in seven-league boots.
So he went to the Green Ogre to get him to take it away.
His adventure with theOgre at the rock, while not a parallel one, reminds one of Ulysses and Polyphemus.
The Octopus is big enough and ugly enough to make one shudder to see him, but the real ogre of the deep is the Giant Cuttle-fish, beside which the Octopus is a tiny mite.
The ogre of the ocean and the Garden Snail are second cousins!
Sharks, Conger Eels, and Whales are able to fight the Octopus and eat his soft body; but small fish and Crabs keep away from the ogreif they can.
Otherwise he would not dare to face the awful, clinging arms of the Cuttle, that ogre of the deep sea.
Like poor Bunny chased by the dreaded Stoat, the Crab gave in as soon as the ogre flicked him with an arm.
In the depositions before the Chatelet, he is called L'Homme à la barbe--an epithet which might distinguish the ogre or goblin of some ancient legend.
His countenance was that of an Ogre on the shoulders of a Hercules.
Why, it is the very ogre that is eating us all up.
In the first act, more especially in the first act as originally printed, the King of Spain is painfully suggestive of a wicked ogre swooping in upon a nursery of naughty children.
But to all the people he seemed the ogre dreaded by Mademoiselle in her infancy, though indisputedly an unnatural ogre, possessing genius far beyond the reach of the normal man.
When we think of his ogre face--spoil sport that he was!
Cold is theogre that drives all beautiful things into hiding.
Below the surface of a frost-bound garden there lurk hidden bulbs, which are only biding their time to burst forth in a riot of laughing color; but shivering Nature dare not put forth her flowers until the ogre has gone.
Joan cast her mind back to the days of school and placed father as a rather irritable person, vaguely reputed to be something of an ogre in his home circle.
I didn't mean to listen in any mean way, of course, and a comical idea came into my head that it was just like the ogre and his wife in the fairy tale.
What account their mother may have given to them of their future poverty, he knew not; but he felt certain that she had explained to them how cruelly he meant to turn them out on the wide world; unnaturalogre that he was.
In England, at any rate in the country in England, one is an ogre if one doesn't go to church.
