trolls


In Norse mythology, repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places. They would steal children and property but hated noise. The troll in the children's story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” for example, lives under a bridge and is enraged when he hears the goats crossing the bridge.

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How to use trolls in a sentence

  • On the way back he passed the dwelling of a band of trolls at enmity with those from whom he had stolen the cup.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • Some peasants who were once passing by these mounds prayed the trolls to give them some beer.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • In Thyholm, a district of Denmark, there is a range of lofty mounds formerly inhabited by trolls.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • In the latter case the man took refuge in the church, where he was besieged by the trolls until morning.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • For a moment he stood, running through all he had learned about the trolls which infested these northlands.

    The Valor of Cappen Varra | Poul William Anderson