grewsome
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And yet, at the same moment, with a contrariety of feeling from which he shrank aghast, there was skulking into his mind all that grewsome company of doubts.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
The few details in the newspaper report gave vividness to the grewsome scene.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
The house-gathering afterward savoured of the grewsome conviviality of a funeral assemblage.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
The doctor was a most accomplished gentleman, but he had a fondness for the grewsome in description equal to Edgar Allan Poe himself.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
It was almost grewsome, but The Phantom’s sense of perplexity was stronger than his repugnance.
From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman
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