Do we say grisly or grizzly

grisly 139 occurrences

It was a grisly wound.

" That girl was right: like Siegfried tempered in the grisly flood, the raw boy was turning into a man, seasoned and invulnerable.

or that the child had crost The savage humour of the beast, or that Some sudden madness had embolden'd it, He saw the child lie bloody mid the sheets, Slain by the hound, as it would seem, for there Lay Gelert lapping from his chaps the blood, That hung in gouts from every grisly curl.

And now I mind me how he loved the dog; How many an hour he sported in the sun, Twining his grisly neck with summer buds; And how the dog was patient with the boy, Yielding him gently to his little arms There was a lion's heart in the old hound!

They brake the posternes of the Castle gate, And entred spoyling all without remorce, Nor could old Sobrin now resist his fate, But stiffe with feare ev'n like a senceles corse Whom grisly terror doth so much amate, He lyes supine upon his fatall bed.

In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue.

II" he stopped, facing Jack with a sort of grisly defiance.

At last the cause of her exile was clear in all its grisly monstrousness; the source of the pain in her eyes in the portrait had been traced home.

[Footnote 3: [Before him Death, the grisly Tyrant, flies; He wipes the Tears for ever from our Eyes.]

Some of the latter grisly shapes were playing on tambours, others on psalteries, others on rebecsevery instrument producing the strangest sound imaginable.

Getting up, he joined the train of grisly attendants, and acquitted himself so well that the earl engaged him as performer in the masque.

The horse was then taken out, and Chowles calling to Leonard, the latter involuntarily knelt down to guide its descent, while the other assistant, who had proceeded to the further side of the chasm, threw the light of a lantern full upon the grisly load, which was thus shot into the gulf below.

When I implor'd Apollo to remove The grisly band of Furies from my side, He seem'd, with hope-inspiring, godlike words, To promise aid and safety in the fane Of his lov'd sister, who o'er Tauris rules.

Once again The grisly band, commission'd to destroy, Pollute earth's beautiful and heaven-sown fields, From which an ancient curse had banish'd them.

Hath the terrific Furies' grisly band Dried up the blood of life within thy veins?

Through my heart One fear doth chase another; perhaps with rage, Again on the unconsecrated shore, The Furies' grisly band my brother seize.

It stood out against the tender blue of the morning sky like the ancient stronghold of some grisly robber-baron of medieval days; towers of dark sublimity, battlements whence invaders might have been hurled a thousand feet to death, slender minarets, escarpments and rugged casements through which fleecy clouds peeped from the high horizon.

at the gates what grisly forms appear!

For example, in a Session of the Poets, under the fictitious name of Matthew Coppinger, Dryden is thus irreverently introduced: "A reverend grisly elder first appeared, With solemn pace through the divided herd; Apollo, laughing at his clumsy mien, Pronounced him straight the poets' alderman.

Bedient had seen the man in the field, a young West Point product, with a queer, rabbit face, lots of men friends, the love of his company, and a remarkable kind of physical couragea splendid young chap, black from the heats, who was being talked about for his grisly humor under fire.

'Now, Mrs. Bowlin',' says I, 'it'll just be the ruin of you an' the death of me if you keep on makin' a picter of yourself like that lonely Indian a-sittin' on a pinnacle in the jographys, watchin' the inroads of civilization, with a locomotive an' a cog-wheel in front, an' the buffalo an' the grisly a-disappearin' in the distance.

More and more weird waxed the grisly dumbness of five-sided Morgan and the spectral silence of the oncoming league-long fleet.

As he came shambling down the road, he was the grisly mask of tragedy.

And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine, As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And 't was like midnight, some, When everything that ticked has stopped, And space stares, all around, Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground.

Oh, my child, my pure, true child! Say, did thy hand not shake, thou grisly dame, When to her side thou broughtest death? GORA.

grizzly 559 occurrences

For bear and grizzly bear, And snakes and cobras, haunt this couch of mine.

He lay now, his limbs stretched out, his grizzly old head in Bone's arms.

It grazed the beast's grizzly back, but glancing from it mortally wounded the king, who stood within its range.

Of course you remember 'Grizzly' Silverdale?

Did you ever see any one who in disposition and looks and walk and everything reminded you so much of a grizzly bear?

This was not one of the forest people, neither the lynx, nor the hunting otter, nor even the venerable grizzly with whom no one contests the trail.

For the rodents and the digging peopleeven for the mighty grizzly himselfthe season means nothing but the cold and the darkness of their underground lairs.

The old grizzly bear had left his winter lair; and good feeding was putting the fat again on his bones; the old cow moose had stolen away into the farther marshes for some mystery and miracle of her own.

The thickets were dense, ordinarily impenetrable to any mortal strength except to that mighty, incalculable power of the moose and grizzly; yet they could not restrain him now.

More than a hundred miles farther down the Yuga, past the mouth of Grizzly River, not far from the great, north-flowing stream of which the Yuga was a tributary, lay an Indian villageand if only she could reach it she might enlist the aid of the natives and make a safe return, by a long, roundabout route, to her father's arms.

He and the girl had made their home in the grizzly's caveperhaps the lair wherein he had hibernated through the winter and which he still slept in from time to timeand he had come to drive them out.

Only death could pay for such insolence as this,to make a night's lair in the den of his sovereignty, the grizzly.

The largest grizzly weighs but a thousand pounds, but that weight is simple fiber and iron muscle, of a might incredible to any one but the woodsmen who know this mountain king in his native haunts.

XXVIII Few wilderness adventures offer a more stern test to human nerves than the frightful rush of a maddened grizzly.

The grizzly bounded forward again.

The grizzly was in his death-agony, nothing more; yet in that final convulsion he could rip into shreds the powerful form that opposed him.

It is beyond the ken of man whether or not, in their wild hearts, these forest folk sensed what was taking place,that their gray monarch, the sovereign grizzly, was at the death-fight with some dreadful invader from the South.

This was no new war which Ben and the grizzly fought in the pale light of the moon.

In the grizzly were typified all those ancient enemies that have always opposed, with claw and fang, this stalwart, self-knowing breed that has risen among the primates: he symbolized not only the Beast of the forest, but the merciless elements, storm and flood and cold and all the legions of death.

The grizzly had come to drive him forth; and they had met beside the ashes of his fire.

But at last the grizzly lunged too far.

It was hard to remember all that occurred in the countless life times he had lived since the grizzly had stolen out of the spruce forest.

His first work was to remove the skin of last night's invader,the huge grizzly that lay dead just outside the cavern opening.

" This February has let loose its whole pack of grizzly sky-hounds.

"Also go call me a tikka-gharri and select a very senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grieflest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brotherand not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am.

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