grewsome
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"Or a complicated astrological machine, such as one hears about in Bulwer's grewsome ghost story," added Kent-Lauriston.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells
The issues of the war were so clear-cut, their ethical significance so momentous, that an American Gillray, a Unionist Gillray, would have found material for a series of cartoons of eloquent and grewsome power.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper
Prime knew his companion well enough by this time to be willing to trust her with the grewsome truth.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
He started at the grewsome heap on the floor as if he had just now chanced to cast eye upon it.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
After the final scene of the gladiatorial combat in the arena each spirit will be led by her guide through the grewsome and labyrinthine Catacombs—faint not! fear not! to the Feast of the Ghouls!
From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
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