mer-wolf – English noun declension

English noun forms of mer-wolf

Noun: mer-wolf
Singularmer-wolf
Pluralmer-wolves

Sample Sentences

  • Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar,
  • Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar,
  • Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep
  • Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep,
  • Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind,
  • Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find ,
  • Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea,
  • Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free. [1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44:]
  • Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay
  • Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne! [1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:]
  • Bare then the mer-wolf,
  • when to the bottom she came,
  • The ringed Prince
  • to her own place,
  • So that he might not,
  • for all his proud mind,
  • Wield his weapons;
  • for such wondrous things
  • Swinked him in the sound,
  • sea-deer many
  • With worrying tusks
  • his war-sark tare,
  • Chased him the creatures. [1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54:]
  • Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx. [1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:]

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