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Example sentences for "giantesses"

Lexicographically close words:
giace; gialitis; giallo; giant; giantess; giants; gib; gibber; gibbered; gibbering
  1. This combat between Thor and the giantesses on the rocky isle is alluded to in the elder or poetic Edda, in the chapter called “Harbard’s song.

  2. Harbard makes Thor the following reproach, when the latter tells him that he had beaten and put to flight the giantesses on the isle of Hlesey: Shamefully didst thou act, O Thor!

  3. When Frodi himself slept, the giantesses changed their song and proceeded to grind out an army of troops to invade the land.

  4. Under his direction two giantesses turned a pair of magic millstones which ground out gold according to his wish and filled his coffers.

  5. Once upon a time there lived two giantesses who were sisters.

  6. It hit the egg, and broke it--the giantesses fell down, dead.

  7. Brave giantesses who dared to treat your sacred possession so heedlessly!

  8. Then the two giantesses lay down in the bed with the silver coverlet and slept till break of day.

  9. So away went the giantesses by themselves, after they had lulled him to sleep to the singing of the swans.

  10. So when it drew to evening, the girl hid herself again, and soon the giantesses came, lit a fire in the cave, and cooked at it the game they had brought with them.

  11. The king's son in the cave of the giantesses whose life was in an egg.

  12. Loki became guileful from that wicked woman; thence in the world are all giantesses come.

  13. The stony hills are dashed together, the giantesses totter; men tread the path of Hel, and heaven is cloven.

  14. Helgi is his name; but thou nowhere canst to the chief do harm; iron forts are around the prince's fleet; giantesses may not assail us.

  15. The earth resounds, the giantesses flee; no man will another spare.

  16. Atli I am named, fierce I shall prove to thee; towards giantesses I am most hostile.

  17. A strophe by Thorbjorn Disarskald preserved in the Younger Edda, states that Hyrrokin was one of the giantesses slain by Thor.

  18. From Icelandic records we learn that Hafle and the giantesses Fenja and Menja fight under Gudhorm's banners.

  19. Shield-maids (amazons) occupy the position which in the original was held by the giantesses Hardgrep, Fenja, and Menja.

  20. With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in front he led him to a fountain where hundreds of Giants and Giantesses were assembled preparing to hold a wedding.

  21. Loki became guileful from that wicked woman: thence in the world are all giantesses come.

  22. The stony hills are dashed together, The giantesses totter.

  23. All the giants and giantesses and Mrs. Giant raced after him with dreadful big steps; but he rolled under a big stone chair, cut out of the side of the rock that the cave was made of.

  24. Where Madame Olivier found those giantesses I cannot imagine; certainly not in a day.

  25. As for the salt it soon melted; but such was the immense quantity ground by the giantesses that it permeated all the waters of the sea, which have ever since been very salt.

  26. The stony hills are dashed together, The giantesses totter; Men tread the path of Hel, And heaven is cloven.


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