grewsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grewsomely adverb
- grewsomeness noun
Example Sentences
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So I moved to the left, my gallery curving slightly there, and, looking fixedly at them in the failing light, I comprehended what this grewsome sight meant.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
I took the feet of the grewsome burden, the Skipper carrying the head.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
It was as if they were venturing into a new world–a boundless morass, covered by an impenetrable tangle, and made grewsome by the bleaching trunks of dead trees.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
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
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
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