He had told me that on account of the shore being so full of weeds and the clearness of the water, fishing from the banks was almost an impossibility, and how they had to accustom themselves to troll from a boat so small as to only accommodate the rower and the fisherman.

He was a powerful and muscular troll, for all intents and purposes.

From his waist down, instead of the usual troll waist and legs, however, he had the neck and body of a mighty black stallion.

"She doesn't have any troll featuresnot even a little around the eyes!

"That poor little waif of a unicorn?" replied the troll-horse.

" The troll creature looked at Graham and frowned.

"Now, now," answered the troll voice, which was sounding less patient than before.

Then the troll-horse let out a couple of loud exclamations.

Toodle-oo!" "LAMBERT!" roared the troll in a voice that would have shamed the kingliest of lions.

Later!" The troll placed a powerful and majestic hoof on one of Lambert's flippers.

"You look a little bit like a troll, but you have a horse's body growing out of your waist.

" "I am a sort of horse-troll," he replied.

V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve^; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.

How all the ancient North was alive in its Troll-haunted hillocks, where clanged the anvil of the faery hill-smith, and danced and banqueted the Gnome and Troll,and in its streams and springs, musical with the harps of moist-haired Elle-women and mermaids, who, ethnic daemons though they were, yet cherished a hope of salvation!

How all the ancient North was alive in its Troll-haunted hillocks, where clanged the anvil of the faery hill-smith, and danced and banqueted the Gnome and Troll,and in its streams and springs, musical with the harps of moist-haired Elle-women and mermaids, who, ethnic daemons though they were, yet cherished a hope of salvation!

Above, Dawson was singing at the top of his voice, a sea-song he had learnt of a mariner at the inn he frequented at Greenwich, with a troll at the end, taken up by Moll and me.

Like Ibsen's Master-Builder, there was a troll in his blood, which drew him away to the continent on inland voyages with a canoe and lonely tramps with a donkey; these gave him material for books full of brilliant pictures, shrewd observations, and irrepressible humour.

* 35 troll cel' er y new' fan gled thatch chink' ing as par' a gus im mense' sauce' pan de mol' ish ing sa' vor y pat' terns ag' gra va ting THE MINNOWS WITH SILVER TAILS.

They made him troll up the stream for miles; then, just as he thought his chase was at an end and he was sure of them, they would leap quite out of the water, and dart down the stream again like little silver arrows.

But Fräulein compromised the matter by letting Mary read Atta Troll, the exact bearing of which neither of them understood.

There are giant troll-caverns shaped in the rock, and great crevices that lure the wanderer to venture into the mountain's depthsall the way to Kullman's Hollow.

Geology and botany A hundred wonders shall diskiver, We'll flog and troll in strid and hole, And skim the cream of lake and river, Blow Snowdon!

We need only to mention such a strophe as the following from Atta Troll: Klang das nicht wie Jugendträume.

His golden age is rather amorous than philosophical; he is more concerned that love should be free and true than that the earth should yield her fruits unwounded of the plough; and even so he hastens away from that colourless age to troll the delightful ballad of Dowsabel.

Some people think that the intention is to keep off the Troll and other evil spirits who are especially active at this season.