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Siegfried

[ US /ˈsiɡˌfɹid/ ]
NOUN
  1. (German mythology) mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed; Sigurd is the Norse counterpart

How To Use Siegfried In A Sentence

  • Stephen carries an ashplant cane that becomes an ersatz version of Siegfried's sword: STEPHEN: AH NON, PAR EXEMPLE! As a wagoner would his mudheeldy wheesindonk
  • In the medieval sagas, like Siegfried, the main character will do something - like stage a coup against the king who has favored him up to then - which simply does not make sense -- unless we realize that Siegfried is not a character but a type. July 25th, 2008
  • Mr. Morris grabbed every chance to bend a phrase lyrically, as when, alone in the woods, Siegfried wonders what his mother was like and who his father was. NYT > Home Page
  • Then bold Siegfried changed his voice and spake: “I am a knight; do up the door, else will I enrage many a one outside today, who would liefer lie soft and take his ease.” The Nibelungenlied
  • Adie --" said * Siegfried, "there are ten people on that bus, and one of them is having a heart attack. Galapagos
  • So Gunther and Hagen laid aside all their arms, and put off their heavy clothing; but Siegfried took up his bow and quiver, and his heavy shield, and his beamlike spear. The Story of Siegfried
  • It was a German ship, and the captain confessed that he had had a sealed envelope containing instructions given to him when he went on his first vogage, which he was not to open until he received a wireless message with the word "Siegfried" in it; he was to understand when he received that, that he was to open the package and get the message interpreted. Britain At War
  • It is a sound we hear again later in the cycle - in Siegfried, Act I, Scene iii - when the eponymous hero reforges his father's shattered sword Notung.
  • Red Army Faction member Verena Becker is on trial for alleged role in 1977 murder of public prosecutor Siegfried Buback Baader-Meinhof trial opens in Germany
  • Ten yards further on, Siegfried found a trip-wire and gestured McCready to crawl round it.
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