Example Sentences

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Obviously my request there would have been the elimination of overmuch grewsomeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

"A dead failure, truly!" muttered Balder, impelled by the very grewsomeness of the subject to jest about it.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

After a death-scene she shrank from the grewsomeness of burial; she preferred a decent drop-curtain and the grateful darkness.

From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)