- a variation of gruesome.
grewsome
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It did, indeed, go by the name of “Robinson’s Haunted House”; but in the late afternoon sunlight none of the visitors thought of the grewsome stories told of it.
From The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors by Gertrude W. Morrison
And this grewsome fabric of a diseased imagination, like Frankenstein's monster, wreaks vengeance on its maker.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
"Or a complicated astrological machine, such as one hears about in Bulwer's grewsome ghost story," added Kent-Lauriston.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells
It was a grewsome experience and my first of the kind.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher
The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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