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any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
a mythical monster, as an ogre.
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Officers' Reserve Corps.
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But there will be a little bit of orc killing to be seen in the extended cut.
‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth | Alex Suskind | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are a few orc killings that we actually got knocked back.
‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth | Alex Suskind | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne-third of Americans now say that President Obama should be impeached, according to a CNN/orc poll.
Riding a warg, the Pale orc watches as the company awaits their free-fall into death.
‘The Hobbit’: 19 Changes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Novel to Peter Jackson’s Movie | Anna Klassen | December 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe CNN/orc instant poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
But with the dawn of that morning orc descended in fire, “and in the vineyards of red France appeared the light of his fury.”
William Blake | Algernon Charles SwinburneLast she calls upon orc; “Smile, son of my afflictions; arise and give our mountains joy of thy red light.”
William Blake | Algernon Charles SwinburneOf these two divinities, called in the mythology Los and Enitharmon, is born the man-child orc.
William Blake | Algernon Charles SwinburneLos embraces her, and she begets a child in her own image—a Human Shadow, who is named orc (passion).
William Blake | Charles GardnerOne merely gathers, that orc releases himself in order to marry the shadowy daughter of Urthona,—Ah!
William Blake | Irene Langridge
British Dictionary definitions for orc
/ (ɔːk) /
any of various whales, such as the killer and grampus
one of an imaginary race of evil goblins, esp in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
Origin of orc
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