His nose, owing to the falling away of other portions of his face, has assumed a grotesque, unnatural prominence; it describes an immense arch, gleaming like a piece of parchment stretched on ivory.

No writer has ever so successfully as Hood combined the grotesque with the terrible.

Again, we find the grotesque through Hood's writings in union with the fantastic and the fanciful.

Something sprang up within hersomething that clamoured grotesque and incoherent things.

In the hall, her stout figure looming grotesque in wall-shadows, sat Blanche Devine pretending to read.

The tragic side of the history, however, overshadows the grotesque.

ANTONY (Saint) lived in a cavern on the summit of Cavadonga, in Spain, and was perpetually annoyed by devils. Old St. Antonius from the hell Of his bewildered phantasy saw fiends In actual vision, a foul throng grotesque Of all horrific shapes and forms obscene, Crowd in broad day before his open eyes.

From its driving energy, its personal weight, its invincible oblivion to certain things, there sprang up in Redwood's mind the most grotesque and strange of images.