grewsome
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There had been a bunch of faded flowers upon the mound; he restored these and with a sigh of relief shouldered his spade and auger and took his departure, glad to leave the grewsome spot.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
The grewsome growth of barberry bushes near Mowry’s Tavern was the scene of the first serious crime of the settlement of Providence Plantations.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
It was a story full of grewsome romance, this tale of the unheralded coming of two monsters among a simple, honest, scattered, yet neighborly, woods-people.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
It was nearly midnight when he got up from his place beside the whitening embers of the camp-fire and pulled himself together for the grewsome task.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
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