grewsome
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The battening of this horde soon reduced Southern finances and credit to a grewsome skeleton.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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
The house-gathering afterward savoured of the grewsome conviviality of a funeral assemblage.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
With thoughts dark and grewsome, they sought this place in the hope of obtaining benefit or relief.
From Professor Huskins by Cummings, Lettie M.
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
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