Grim was alone in the room with the Administrator, a rather small, lean, rigidly set up man, with merry fire in his eye, and an instantly obvious gift for being obeyed.

Grim was in truth a magnificent-looking fellow, with his black beard and moustache; and the mock-heroic frown with which he gazed up (as one of the audience suggested) at the aurora borealis, while he grasped an enormous club in his right hand, became him well.

The Administrator was in his car outside, waiting to know whether Major Grim was indoors.

GRIM-THE-COLLIER.This is an old inhabitant of our gardens, and affords a pleasing variety.

Peter Grim was the ship's carpenter, and he took after his name.

Grim as were results of sun-fishing on the rider, they were hardly less vitiating for the horse.

That fellow Grim is a devil, I tell you.

"Grim, the Collier of Croydon," is a person who plays a prominent character in the humorous portion of Edwards's "Damon and Pithias," which was printed in 1571, and acted several years earlier.

Apparently delicate and shy they can be, if emergency demands, as grim as war or as tender as heaven.