Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome.

It was rather a grewsome scene.

I sprang back, giving utterance to a cry, which brought Watkins to me, and the two of us stared at the grewsome object and then about into the wavering shadows.

At first I doubted the evidence of my own eyes, snatching the bit of flaring candle from its tin socket, and holding it where the full glare of light fell across the grewsome object.

As they were walking home that night, they fell naturally to talking of the grewsome adventure of the day before; and Jennie asked Jack, innocently, to explain to her the method by which he and Billy were accustomed to steer the Red Revenger.

A red one led the grewsome rank, a black and white one came next, then in decorous procession followed the guilty green one, a yellow one, a blue one, and finallyhorror of horrors!a red-white-and-blue mouse, carrying a tiny American flag.

The same year he published another book, "The King in Yellow," a grewsome tale, but remarkably successful.

It would be difficult to find elsewhere such a combination of the grewsome and the ridiculous as is packed up in "Tam o' Shanter."

That grewsome superstition has led to bloodshed in more than one part of China.

"What," asked the mask in a deep, grewsome voice, "what is the penalty for disobedience?" "Tossed in the blanket," answered the other four in unison.

It belongs with the grewsome superstition that a woman apparently white may give birth to a coal-black child by a white father.

You can sit upon the deck of your boat with your kodak in your hand, take it all in and preserve the grewsome scene for future reminiscencing.

Miss Jones raised her head just a trifle, showed her face long enough to roll her eyes in a grewsome way she had learned at school, and with a "Help me!"

And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.

The black and yellow flags at the end of the company's pier lent colour to a grewsome story!

That no human being could survive such a bombardment were many grewsome proofs.

" The stories the English officers told us at La Rue's and Maxim's by contrast with the surroundings were all the more grewsome.

Gerland cites grewsome details of their nastiness.

The head need not be that of an enemy: "A skull may be acquired by the blackest treachery, but so long as the victim was not a member of the clan," says Dalton (39), "it is accepted as a chivalrous offering of a true knight to his lady," Dalton gives another and less grewsome instance of "chivalry" occurring among the Oráons (253).

" The Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati (22) gives some further grewsome details which would seem like the inventions of a burlesque writer were they not attested by such unbiassed authority.

Further speeds the sledge, and further, Loud the sleighbell's melody, Grewsome, frightful 'tis becoming, 'Mid these snow fields now to be! Hasten!

Their uniform was scarlet and green, but some wore beaded shirts of scarlet holland, belted in with Mohawk wampum, and some were partly clothed like Cayuga Indians and painted with Seneca war-symbolsa grewsome sight.

Then the tavern was a grewsome old shell any way, full of unaccountable noises after darkrustlings of garments along unfrequented passages, and stealthy footfalls in unoccupied chambers overhead.

The warriors, fearing no danger, slept in peace; but in the dead of night the mother of the giant, as grewsome and uncanny a monster as he, glided into the hall, secured the bloody trophy still hanging from the ceiling, and carried it away, together with Aeschere (Askher), the king's bosom friend.

He wanted it behind him where he need think no more about it and the grewsome crevice that cut a deep, wide gash two thirds of the way across it through the middle.