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When the ogress came home and saw the task done, she swelled up with rage till she almost burst, saying, "Thunder-and-Lightning is determined to plague me, but may I be dragged at an ape's tail if I let her escape!"
Together, though at opposite ends of the world, these two had woven the great Net of sympathy, thought, and longing in which at last they both were prisoners ... and with them all the earth. The figure of Jane Anne loomed before him like an ogress suddenly. 'Cousinenry, will you answer or will you not?
There she stands, waist-deep in the swelling brine; she grins and chuckles like an ogress; her red, grasping hands stretch forth like the tentacles of an octopus; she seizes her victim in an irresistible embrace, and with horrid glee plunges him head-under the advancing wave. Ere he can fetch his breath to scream, down again he goes, and yet again.
And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail. It was she who had caused the disappearance of the courtiers, for which no one could account, by eating them during the night, and she hoped to get rid of all the people in the country, and then to fill the land with ogres and ogresses like herself.
If he had no compassion for my misery, he should have had some regard for his own interest; for I pray Heaven, on my bare knees and from the bottom of my soul, that he may fall in love with the daughter of some ogress, who may plague and torment him in every way.
"I know from the way she looks that she wants some. Don't you, Redbud?" Poor Redbud's resolutions all melted Verty's voice did it all she blushed and nodded, and said yes, she should like very much to have some apples. "Then you may go," said the ogress, somewhat mollified, "but don't touch the small trees I'm keeping them." "Not for worlds!" said Verty. "No, ma'am," said Redbud.
She tried to draw herself away, but he held her all the closer. "Do not think unkindly of her. I don't think she really knew she was an ogress! After all, she did unlock the door and say, 'Go! And well, here I am, darling woman. And I'm going to marry you!" "Did you never love her?" "Never. I was so frightfully unhappy that the best I could do was not to hate her.
You may have heard that a ragpicker who has risen to the rank of a boss in his trade, and so remains at home in a shop and goes out with his hook no more, is called an ogre. A woman attaining this dignity is called an ogress. The terms are not idle ones. Like many of the words and phrases of slang they are based on the clearest conception of the merits of the case.
Four of them said to the other, "Advise us or we will kill you." "Cut off your fingers," he said. The first one began, and the three others did the same. The youngest one took them and put them into his game-bag, and then he added, "Wait near the city till I come back." He went out into the desert and came to the city of the ogress. He entered, and found her ready to grind some wheat.
"And meanwhile I'll sharpen the knife." So after she had taken back the crying child, and had watched the little girl, who now darned away as skilfully as ever, the Ogress took down a huge knife from the wall, and began to sharpen it on a grindstone in a corner of the kitchen.
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