| Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish. |
| Even an ogreish salmon-boat captain, a bachelor again at eighty-seven, was convinced that we were both in love with him. |
| His ogreish presence is the defining image of their World Cup. |
| Thomas personifies a myriad of evils in the ogreish figures of Oscar and Simeon, and in doing so liberates his stories from the hovering dead hand of left-wing politics. |
| Grandmama was beating time with her hand on the arm of her chair to the merry music-hall tune and the ogreish words. |
| But she herself still beat time to the merry music-hall tune and the ogreish words. |
