grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
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And yet, at the same moment, with a contrariety of feeling from which he shrank aghast, there was skulking into his mind all that grewsome company of doubts.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
That he had come upon some grewsome mystery was apparent.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
They made good speed with the grewsome burden on the sled.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Dana, Marvin Hill
The doctor was a most accomplished gentleman, but he had a fondness for the grewsome in description equal to Edgar Allan Poe himself.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
It was nearly midnight when he got up from his place beside the whitening embers of the camp-fire and pulled himself together for the grewsome task.
From Stranded in Arcady by Lynde, Francis
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