grewsome
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It is grewsome in fact, and horrible; but it is also strong and intense and vital.
From Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
It was a grewsome experience and my first of the kind.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.
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 Heller, Otto
The idea of such a man going into the grewsome business of eating blubber and seal, and possibly Eskimo dog steak!
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
How often had she heard that grewsome story—even that the plunging horse was a sorrel!
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
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