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  • The Associated Press: Musician Ike Turner Dies at 76: SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock's critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife and icon Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego.

    Archive 2007-12-09 Bill Crider 2007

  • The Associated Press: Musician Ike Turner Dies at 76: SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock's critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife and icon Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego.

    Ike Turner, R. I. P. Bill Crider 2007

  • The marsh was a sinister place, a jumble of slums and sin that crouched, dark and ogrelike, on the bank of the Thames just across from Westminster; few respectable Londoners would ever admit to venturing there.

    Excerpt: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 1998

  • From modish, floppy cap with plume to paisley hose and soft slippers, this ogrelike creature was the epitome of trendy vogue.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • She knows by now that the ogrelike giants, called Sattarams, are the mature form of the Elaigar, and that their life span, as compared to the normal human one, is very short.

    The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976

  • There is no recent record of a psi organization such as she has described, but probability computers indicate she may have encountered descendants of the Elaigar, an artificially produced ogrelike giant human mutant strain, believed to have been nearly exterminated centuries before.

    The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976

  • Tscharen and Telzey set off through the strange circuit and almost immediately are ambushed by another group of giants, some of whom resemble Tscharen and his associates, while others are unmistakably the ogrelike Elaigar.

    The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976

  • "Ogres and the Irda," Glenshadow whispered, leaning close, "a long time ago, they were the same people ... before ogres became ogrelike and ugly.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • "Ogres and the Irda," Glenshadow whispered, leaning close, "a long time ago, they were the same people ... before ogres became ogrelike and ugly.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • "Ogres and the Irda," Glenshadow whispered, leaning close, "a long time ago, they were the same people ... before ogres became ogrelike and ugly.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

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