giant-killers

What you and I really want to know is very simple: in the great unfolding tale of the 2011 NFL season, will it be the Giants once again, who get to play the giant-killers?

Green Bay Packers 38 New York Giants 35 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011

Mr Edelman, for instance, saw them as giant-killers, slayers of potential local dictators who might otherwise flourish in the dark.

From the archive, 6 February 1960: Watchdogs or curs? MPs look at newspapers 2012

In fact, in Welsh and Cornish folklore of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries it is repeatedly claimed that Arthur was the greatest of all giant-killers, responsible for finally ridding the land of giants....

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

We wonder and exclaim often at the slaughter of Goliath by David, and we forget that David was the forerunner of a race of fearless, invincible warriors and giant-killers.

When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle

Although I have always loved stories of giant-killers, from David downwards, and should much like to write one, I cannot in this case pretend that Mr. Russell's Hound did anything but call for help.

This Is the End Stella Benson 1912

They were very glad to swagger about as giant-killers: but they were kindly enough and never slew anybody but a few inoffensive people or those whom they thought could never harm them.

Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

And I narrated to him how I too, when a callow and unfledged hobbardyhoy, had engaged in theatrical entertainments, and played such parts in native dramas as heroic giant-killers and tiger slayers, in which I was an "_au fait_" and

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

Outwardly, it was a mere tent of skins and curious pictography, under the shadows of gigantic trees, looking down on the glistening waters of the Columbia; inwardly, it was a museum of relics of the supposed era of the giant-killers, and of the deep regions of the tooth and claw; of Potlatches, masques and charms of _medas_ and

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

I could not avoid thinking that I had fallen in with a greatly traduced people, and I moralized not a little upon the disadvantage of having a bad name, which in this instance had given a tribe of savages, who were as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

I could not avoid thinking that I had fallen in with a greatly traduced people, and I moralized not a little upon the disadvantage of having a bad name, which in this instance had given a tribe of savages, who were as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers.

Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life 1846