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Example sentences for "giantess"

Lexicographically close words:
giace; gialitis; giallo; giant; giantesses; giants; gib; gibber; gibbered
  1. Figure 159 shows an American giantess known as "Leah, the Giantess.

  2. Its mother was Mrs. Bates, formerly Anna Swann, the giantess who married Captain Bates.

  3. Buffon refers to a Swedish giantess who he affirms was 8 feet 6 inches tall.

  4. During Queen Anne's reign there was shown in London and other parts of England a most peculiar anomaly--a German giantess without hands or feet who threaded a needle, cut gloves, etc.

  5. If the Castle went off first, they said the Giantess would be quiet, and vice versa, and then they told tales till the moon got up and a party of campers in the woods gave us all something to eat.

  6. Owing to her peculiarity of going mad in the night, not many people have seen the Giantess at her finest; but the clamor of her unrest, men say, shakes the wooden hotel, and echoes like thunder among the hills.

  7. Though this woman was sitting all of a heap, you could see that she was very tall, and a species of giantess by her husband's side.

  8. If she liked, the amiable giantess could rip up with her claw the tiny bandit who ruins her home; she could crunch her with her mandibles, run her through with her stiletto.

  9. This is apparent from the self-possessed manner and undamaged condition of the dwarf who returns from visiting the giantess engaged down in the burrow.

  10. All the inherent love of the Lunas for the giantess who was their eternal mother surged up in him, but he did not love it blindly as all his belongings did.

  11. The magnificent church was like a giantess whose feet were shod with rough shoes, but whose head was covered with the loveliest plumes.

  12. The gestation of the giantess had lasted for three centuries; it seemed like those enormous prehistoric animals who slept so long in their mother's womb before seeing the light.

  13. The Kentucky giantess sat in two chairs on a platform, and there was a large cage of monkeys just beyond, toward which Kate and I went at once.

  14. And then the poor giantess lost her professional look and tone as she said, "I believe I'd rather die than grow any bigger.

  15. He had another giantess before me, but she had begun to fall away consider'ble, so he paid her off and let her go.

  16. The giantess had not long returned to the cavern when she determined on making another attempt to gain the affection of the king's son.

  17. Jacob Grimm alludes to the charming musical powers of Gygur, a Scandinavian giantess and sorceress, and he thinks it likely that an old German name for the violin, which is Geige, was derived from Gygur.

  18. However, the giantess perceiving that she was talking in vain, at last determined to await a more propitious time.

  19. Then the horrid giantess sat down by the side of the king's son, and told him how very fond she was of him; and that she should never be happy until he was her husband.

  20. In a moment both the giant and the giantess fell down dead.

  21. The young giantess must have heard his words.

  22. You are very thirsty," said the giantess again.

  23. You are very thirsty," said the giantess again; this time louder, her voice filled with fear.

  24. You want me to marry some bouncing Amazon, some pink and white giantess of fashion who would frighten the little people into their proprieties.

  25. The giantess is also on view, under whose arm the tallest man can stand, although she wears no high heels to her shoes, and, when desired, shows that the calves of her legs are not wadded.

  26. The giantess pushed head and shoulders out of her tent, frightened to death.

  27. In Scandinavian fable we have the young giantess coming to her mother with the plough and ploughman in her apron, which she had picked up in the field.

  28. Joun or his consort Jana was in all probability the divinity of the Etruscan river Chiana, and Giant or Giantess Albion the divinity of the neighbouring river Albinia.

  29. His name was Huggermugger, and he and his giantess wife lived at the foot of the great cliffs they had seen in the distance.

  30. What was their surprise to find that the giant and giantess wore the most beaming smiles on their broad faces.

  31. Little Jacket was quite relieved to feel that he was safe out of the giant's house, and that the giantess had gone.

  32. Whereupon the giantess took the boot, and put her great hand down into the toe of it, when Little Jacket gave another thrust with his weapon.

  33. The giantess came, riding on a fierce wolf, with twisted snakes in her hands for reins.

  34. Before Hymer could answer, the old giantess croaked out, "And Thor has come with him--the strongest god in Asgard and the enemy of our race.

  35. To the giantess Night, and her son, Day, the gods gave chariots and swift horses, so that they might drive through the sky every twenty-four hours.

  36. Then the giantess cut such a deep furrow into the earth that a great tract of land was torn away; and this, being carried out to sea by the oxen, was borne westward to Jotunheim.

  37. So they sent for the mountain-giantess Hyrroken--who had ever been friendly to the people of Asgard--and begged her to grant this last service to the beloved of the gods.

  38. But to set one giantess against the other, gold and energy are needed.

  39. So the giantess had sprung over all the mountains--and had come!

  40. One giantess more--it seems to him that he is a hundred years old.

  41. Let one giantess fight with the other; we shall see which one wins.

  42. Who are they who, at any time, think of that misty region, and look at the face of the giantess who reigns in it?

  43. Now," said the giantess at last, "I hear him coming.

  44. When he had disappeared from sight in the forest, the giantess turned quickly to the woman and said: "I have a secret to tell you.

  45. The time of the hunter's return drew near, and the Stone Giantess bade the woman go out and meet her husband and tell him of her visitor.

  46. The Stone Giantess knew that the woman was in the habit of carrying home the game, and she now declared she would do it in her stead.

  47. Directly he came in sight, the giantess rushed forward, grappled with him, and threw him to the ground.

  48. Once inside, her fear changed to pity, for the giantess was evidently much worn with trouble and fatigue.

  49. The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her freaks of pettiness.

  50. Mother earth was a good and great giantess who had cunningly snatched the lives of her children from the giantess ocean and had put everything on a firm, everlasting basis with a hedge of safety all around.

  51. The giantess looked knowingly at the giant who looked down at the floor.

  52. He is rich and as happy as if he and his wife were as tall as Captain and Mrs. Bates, the giant and giantess whose immense forms loom up above the crowds that throng the menagerie tent.

  53. A pleasant chat followed, in which the giant and giantess gave brief outlines of their personal history.

  54. Her bitter sobbing caused even the grief-stricken giantess to raise her head.

  55. There is, however, the variation that it was thrown by a giantess from Fyen (Funen) with her garter.

  56. He was married to a giantess called Phane; hence Phanefjord.

  57. A giantess wished to remove a tumulus or Kæmpehøi from Vordingborg to Møen.

  58. When the lymphatic giantess falls into a faint or goes off into hysterics, she storms, or bustles about, or holds on like a game terrier, according to the work on hand.

  59. It was at this moment, when the giantess was turning fiercely upon her prostrate foes, that Goodnews flew to the rescue upon his gallant Formosa.

  60. Come what may the giantess shall never get back into her cave; at least until we have had a a chance to explore it.

  61. He had been surprised by the giantess who rushed upon him from behind, knocked him senseless by a blow of her claw, bound him, and then carried him into her den.

  62. She has dragged your giantess here by her own unaided strength; has dug that grave which you see, and is just ready to fill it up.

  63. Formosa circles around the dazed giantess a moment, and then darts upon her back.

  64. The giantess turned, clambered up the ridge and made straight for the bushlet wherein the Brownies were hid.

  65. The giantess was left undisturbed, and MacWhirlie hastened to camp.

  66. As the giantess sprang upon the little group of guards, a volley of arrows and spears flew into her face.

  67. This was the great giantess Cteniza, the Queen of the Pixies!

  68. The giantess paused and stood with raised arms, rampant and threatening.

  69. The second line parted and down fell the trap with a heavy thud, just as the giantess reached it.

  70. Between the Giantess and the river is the Bee Hive, also one of the most prominent geysers.

  71. Noted examples are the Fountain, the Great Fountain, the Grand and the Giantess Geysers.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "giantess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.