Within that room of chromos and the cold horsehair smell of unaired years, silence, except for the singing of three gas-jets, had momentarily fallen, a dozen or so flushed faces, grotesquely sobered, staring through the gaseous fog, the fluttering lids of a magistrate whose lips habitually fluttered, just lifting from his book.

The moon shone in his long white beard, and added grotesquely to the height of his tall gaunt figure.

All the roads were thick with Austrian equipment thrown away in the confusion of departure, rifles, steel helmets (grotesquely shaped, like high-crowned bowler hats), ammunition, coats, packs (handsomely got up, with furry exteriors), mail bags, maps, office stores, tin despatch boxes, photographs of blonde girls, bayonets, hand bombs, ...

Outside he fumbled grotesquely at the silky mane and climbed weakly into the saddle.

Meanwhile that terrible thing which the people had vaguely feared had not come upon them; though at first they paused, half-hearted, when they passed the house of the Tintoret, where the quaint figure of "Ser-Robia," the Pasquino of Venice, had often a bit of news that the people cared to hear, grotesquely placarded over his broad mouth.

He rode a deep-treed Mexican saddle, with housings of leather, grotesquely stamped: upon the pommel hung, neatly coiled, a lasso of beautifully braided rawhide.

He stood almost as high as Thor, but he was so old that he was only half as broad across the chest, and his neck and head were grotesquely thin.

Harry was still grotesquely decorated when the boys arrived at the conclusion that further scrubbing with the materials at hand was useless.

But when he begins to deduce from this precept any of the actual duties of morality, he fails, almost grotesquely, to show that there would be any contradiction, any logical (not to say physical) impossibility, in the adoption by all rational beings of the most outrageously immoral rules of conduct.

It sprang from the bushes and stood facing her like an animal at baya short creature neither man nor boy, misshapen, grotesquely humped, possessing long thin arms of almost baboon-like proportions.

A large copper preserving-pan lay grotesquely sprawling on the well-scrubbed centre table, which was the one thing which had not been movedprobably because of its great weight.

Dr. Panton threw himself down flat across the path and held out a walking stick over the slippery mud bank, but the stick was hopelessly, grotesquely out of Donnington's reach.

A few swift clouds sped across the moon, and caused the greenish shadows under the misshapen features to flicker and melt grotesquely.

Inaccurate it may have been, incomplete, even grotesquely unfair; but to her it was at least clear.

The toes of their boots were pointed grotesquely upward.

Altogether, it impressed upon the mind a strong idea of a formidable monster, in spite of its relatively diminutive head; for its fearful tusks, and thick-set projecting whiskers, gave its visage a most truculent expression; and with its grotesquely fashioned ponderous carcass, provided with fin feet of strange formation, seemed to mark it as a personification of one of the fabulous conceptions of mythology.

They were greetin' eyes before I knew it, and though I may pose grotesquely as a fine fellow for finding Grizel a home where there is no child and can never be a child, I shall not cease, night nor day, from tending her.

" Usually, of course, these grotesquely coarse compliments are paid by the enamored men.

To see your friend sufficiently himself still to be recognizable, yet in essentials, at the same time, grotesquely altered, would doubtless touch a climax of distress and horror for you.

And further, the more one studied it, the more grotesquely bad it grewbad in its paving, bad in its streets, bad in its street-police, and but for the kindness of the tides would be worse than bad in its sanitary arrangements.

In his agitation, he stepped forward into the lighter part of the room, and I could see that his face was pale to ghastlinessexcept his nose and the adjacent red patches on his cheeks, which stood out in grotesquely hideous contrast.

The author passes at times abruptly from careful and loving realism to the most stilted conventionality, and from passages of impassioned eloquence to others grotesquely banal.

The strangely-garbed intruder bowed grotesquely.

And this farcical scene was considered so "grotesquely and absurdly extravagant" by Sir WALTER's contemporary critics (peace be to their hashes!

Two great doors had been blown inwards by the blast of a shell in the Archbishop's garden, till they had bent grotesquely to the curve of a cask.