werwolf
Americannoun
PLURAL
werwolvesExample Sentences
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Werewolf, Werwolf, wēr′woolf, n. a person supposed to be able by natural gift or magic art to change himself for a time into a wolf.—adjs.
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The benevolent werwolf is disenchanted, and marries Guillaume’s sister.
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Covering the girl’s body with an opperst-kleed they brought it to Heyst, to the Town Hall, and there quickly assembled the aldermen and the leech, who declared that the long teeth that had made those marks were no teeth of a wolf as known in nature, but rather of some wicked and devilish werwolf, and that it behoved them now to pray God one and all that he would deliver the land of Flanders.
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Do you not hear the werwolf howling in his valley?
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And he drew his crossbow and shot an arrow at the legs of the werwolf.
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