Giant-killer

Turnovers this season threaten to be the biggest Giant-killer of them all.

Turnovers Haunt the GiantsBig Blue Bobbles Prove Costly This Season Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

It signified nothing to him that torn posters in red and white bearing various names flapped from every wall and barn; he knew nothing of the electoral revolution that had flung Caterham, “Jack the Giant-killer,” into power.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

But it was as “Jack the Giant-killer” that the popular imagination considered Caterham most correctly cast, and it was in the vein of a Jack the Giant-killer poster that the man from prison, enlarged that distant miniature.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

On the one hand those easy gigantic mail-clad figures of the morning — one saw them now in a different light — on the other this little black-clad gesticulating creature under the limelight, that pigmy thing with its ordered flow of melodious persuasion, its little, marvellously penetrating voice, John Caterham — “Jack the Giant-killer.”

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

“Boomfood,” and “Jack the Giant-killer” again and again and again, and monstrous caricatures and distortions — a hundred varieties of misrepresentations of those great and shining figures they had passed so nearly only a few minutes before ....

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

I am afraid, to the profane histories of Jack the Giant-killer and the Yellow Dwarf; the vicar had theories about imagination, and fancied it was an important faculty, and that the Creator had not given children their unextinguishable love of stories to no purpose.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Jack the Giant-killer, Doctor Rat, and a host of others of the same type?

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 Various

They acted Jack the Giant-killer in fine style, and the giant came tumbling headlong from a loft when Jack cut down the squash-vine running up a ladder and supposed to represent the immortal beanstalk.

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Giant-killer, but one which so disguised him that even

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

"Tell us about Jack the Giant-killer, then," said Dan coaxingly; and

The Gap in the Fence Frederica J. Turle