Example Sentences

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It is certain that neither age nor environment made this old place less grewsomely interesting: this ancient dwelling of a family whose unsavory annals were lost in the gloom of Tátar rule.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton

It was too early in the morning for the Reception Committee, but there was a policeman—one solitary, water-logged, sad-eyed policeman—waiting grewsomely on the dock as the tender came alongside.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

Had he been ordinarily economical of that fuse these annals would end grewsomely with this chapter.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

But step by step, too, was growing the development of his own condition toward madness, the more grewsomely terrible because its monomania gave no outward indication.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

In the yellow lamp-light the thin face of the dead man had an ashen hue; the half-opened eyes and the prominent teeth, from which the lips had partly receded, confronted him grewsomely.

From The Mystics A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil