Sentence examples for wyrm from inspiring English sources
noun
Dragon, particularly one without legs or wings
The actual geography and structure of the game world of Azeroth will change with the return of the black dragon Deathwing, an evil wyrm last seen 15 years ago in 1995's Warcraft II.
Mr. Adamowicz worked with a fellow concept artist, Ray Lederer, on Skyrim, but came up with the look and feel of the game's marquee monster, fearsome dragons that would intimidate Smaug, the venerable wyrm from "The Hobbit".
We see glimpses of the iconic "riddles in the dark" encounter between Bilbo and Gollum, and some have even spotted a fleeting snatch of the great wyrm Smaug in there somewhere, though I must confess I missed it despite multiple views.
The "riddles in the dark" segue in which Bilbo Baggins meets and outwits the creature Gollum is unmatched by anything in Jackson's entire fantasy canon, and while many of the book's other great chapters - the journey through Mirkwood and Bilbo's encounter with the great wyrm Smaug - are yet to come, the debut film's final frame still came too soon for me.
And as an old man, going out to rid his land of the wyrm, while knowing he will perish: He was sad at heart, unsettled yet ready, sensing his death.
As Beowulf goes into the three battles of the epic: his victories against the cannibal monsters Grendel and Grendel's mother and, after a prosperous 50-year reign, his fatal combat with the "wyrm" (dragon), we get lines like: Whichever one death fells must deem it a just judgment by God.
As late as 1420, a battle between Sir John Lambton and the milelong Lambton Wyrm (old English for snake) was reported as fact, and flocks were reported at London fires.
You can join the Mage Guild, infiltrate the Thieves Guild, take sides in a civil war or just roam the wilderness, delving into dungeons and slaying wyrms.
The series's main characters were the villainous Wyrm Queen, "Fernwen the scholarly dwarf, who is small even by dwarven standards" and the heroic Telemach Half-Blood, who blows a Golden Horn of Griffo to raise dead elves in a forest.
