10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIGANTICIDE»
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
A ma- i like John the Giganticide in hlscoat of dark- chine for napping or finishing
cloth; a ma- the esoteric ness. kc John the Giganticide in his Southey, The Doctor,
interchapter xii. giganticide2 (ji-gan'ti-sid), «. [< L. gigas (gi- gant-), a giant, ...
William Dwight Whitney,
1889
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A Supplementary English Glossary
The exoteric person mingles, as usual, in society, while the esoteric is like John
the Giganticide in his coat of darkness.— Southey, The Doctor, Interchapter, xii.
CjIoantomachy, battle of the Giants. They looked more like that Gigantomachy,
the ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
1881
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
giganticide giganticide1 (ji-gan'ti-sid), n. [< L. gigas (gi- gant-), a giant, + -cida, a
killer, < cmdere, kill.] A giant-killer. Davies. The exoteric person mingles, as usual,
in society, while the esoteric is like John the Giganticide in his coat of darkness.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
giganticide giganticide1 (ji-gan'ti-sld), to. [< L. gigas (gi- gant-), a giant, + -cida, a
killer, < cwdere, kill.] A giant-killer. Davies. The exoteric person mingles, as usual,
in society, while the esoteric is like John the Giganticide in his coat of darkness.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
giganticide gtgantidde1 (ji-gan'ti-sid), n. gant-), a giant, + -cida, a killer, A giant-
killer. Davies. The exoteric person mingles, as usual. In society, while the esoteric
is like John the Giganticide In his coat of dark- nesa. Southey, The Doctor ...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, ...
Wvhat else are the popular tales of children, John the Giganticide, and many
more? The poem of Tassoni had a very great reputation. Voltaire did it injustice,
though it was much in his own line. which must have been incomparably better ...
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The cyclopædia of wit and humor: containing choice and ...
... Drag him down to the brink, and then let him roll over; As they scarce make a
capital crime of infanticide, There can't be any harm in a little giganticide. "Pull
him, and haul him! take care of his head! Oh, how my arms ache — he's as heavy
as ...
William Evans Burton,
1898
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Gathered leaves: being a collection of the poetical writings ...
... spot hangs a precipice steep, Like Shakspeare's tall cliff which they show one
at Dover ; Drag him down to the brink, and then let him roll over ; As they scarce
make a capital crime of infanticide, There can't be any harm in a little giganticide.
Frank Edward Smedley, Edmund Hodgson Yates,
1865
At one time the great giganticide is Thor; at another he robes himself in the coat
which renders him invisible, and which is the ancient German Nebel-kappe, or
cloud- cloak, fabled to belong to King Alberich and the other dwarfs of Teutonic ...
... was inflicted upon them ; that the wonderful tales of the giganticide of old, of the
German mythology, and our own rich nursery lore, were of more use to them, did
more to make them what they were, poets, seers, and interpreters of nature, ...
George Dawson, George St Clair,
1887
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