Polo Grounds team of yore

Usage examples of giants.

The real problem is what is going to happen to ordinary, mortal humanity, should the Giants win.

Artisan spoke convincingly about the monstrous ways in which the Giants treated ordinary humanity whenever their paths crossed those of ordinary people.

Daedalus and their assistants were also struggling with the problems of learning exactly what the Golden Apples of the Hesperides meant to the race of the Giants, and of obtaining a sample of this mysterious fruit.

Hercules, we are going to discover just what effect the special weapon of the Giants has on you.

Asterion and Daedalus explained a little more of the ongoing problem between the gods and the Giants, until I began to understand why even Zeus was fearful.

I strongly suspected also that he was deeply afraid of such things as Giants, as every man has a right to be.

Artisan been with us in our little boat, he could have told us much more, in the long hours of our next days of travel, about the gods and about the Giants, too.

Corycus, Enkidu and I had learned some disturbing things: not only how frightened the gods were of these same Giants, but how little Zeus and the others knew, how much they seemed to have mysteriously forgotten, about their ancient enemies.

And Giants really do pose that much of a danger to you, or to Zeus, that you are not going to risk your necks by going near them.

It came out that all the gods, or all of them with whom he had had any recent contact, had fought skirmishes with Giants who used their secret weapon, or had been attacked by their great enemies from ambush, and all the gods, or almost all, had forgotten pretty much the same things.

And part of the price I paid was that for a long time, many months, the mere existence of the Giants seems to have been blotted from my memory.

As time passed since his last brush with the Giants and their exotic weapon, some details about the case were starting to come back to him.

I asked Atlas where the Giants came from, he told me that they had issued from the earth.

Or was he simply, cravenly, hoping that the Giants would allow him to survive, when all the other Olympians had been wiped out?

And in later days I was able to verify the fact: he had signed with them a pact of mutual toleration and nonviolence, until their common enemies, the Giants, should be disposed of.