At last, thoroughly mystified, he turned away, intending to leave this grewsome chamber of horrors forever; but now for the first time the heap of rubbish in the center of the floor engaged his attention.
She spoke of the custom quite openly as grewsome and barbarous, but I must say without much effect.
In the cyclone which had overtaken our good ship in mid-Atlantic, where we lay tossing about at the mercy of the waves for thirty-six long hours, I had expected to yield my body to the dark and grewsome depths of the ocean.
In spite of the three-headed dog and sundry other grewsome sights, Aeneas and his guide reached the place where Minos holds judgment over arriving souls, and viewed the region where those who died for love were herded together.
Having finished this grewsome tale, Ugolino continued his feast upon the head of his foe!
From that horror-haunted night it ceased to invade Dainty's chamber with its grewsome cough and ghoulish presence.
Above the entrance--grewsome and realistic spectacle--is poor St. Lawrence broiling away on his stone gridiron!
A grewsome association this, with a fair stream of running water, and yet how much more euphonious, especially with the soft Italian lingering over syllables, than our American equivalent "Bloody Run!
The chapel contains a statue of the saint, and below, down some steps, is a grewsome place where he is said to have been crucified in a manner so horrible that I really cannot undertake to describe it to you.
Her mother glanced up from her grewsome work as Serena entered, and her ghastly face and flashing eyes made the mother start with a strange alarm and terror.
More grewsome and melancholy stories are told, but in a wavering and subdued manner, as if they are being offered as excuses for resisting the cravings of appetite, which are rapidly becoming insupportable.
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.
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.
Her dress brushed against the drawer which contained the daggers, and one of those grewsomeblades had pierced Rose de Bercy's brain through the eye.
I believe and yet I do not believe, and if I were told I could see one by going anywhere, no matter how grewsomethe spook was, I could not resist going.
Manson was silent, for the wholesome optimism of his friend went far to dispel his grewsome imaginings.
Indeed, not the least impressive feature of the grewsome night was his continued stillness.
It composed a grewsome scene, savage, cruel, devilish, exhibiting within its gloomy outlines small promise for the morrow.
It was a grewsome sight to approach in such a place, especially as the peculiar eyes appeared to follow my slightest movement.
Yet, at best, it was a lonesome journey, and remains a grewsome memory, haunting with many a spectre, as weird as the shadows of delirium.
No one of us doubted what fate dwelt in the decision of that grewsome gathering, and in those faces we saw nothing except eagerness for revenge.
For the Snayle declared 'twas too cold and damp For a lady to live in a grewsome swamp; While her lover replied, that a hole in a log Was no possible place for a Phrisky Phrog.
The Phrog lived down in a grewsome bog, The Snayle in a hole in the end of a log; And they loved each other so fond and true, They didn't know what in the world to do.
No weather was too grewsome for her to confront, and no representation too unpromising for her to be allured by.
Lady Augusta advanced slightly to meet her, with a grewsome rustling of copper-colored stiffness.
Meantime, several of the stage hands were wheeling to the center of the stage, back of the scene, the properties of the next performer on the program--and grewsome properties they were.
The Captain, with Burke and several men, deployed through the back yard to the other house, leaving the grewsome duty of removing the body to the coroner.
Their evil faces showed pallid andgrewsome in the flickering light of the arc-lamp on the corner by Shultberger's place.
Thus in the darkness the place was even moregrewsome with its associations of concealment and flight, the imminence of his young master's capture and violent death.
It is hardly necessary to recapitulate the grewsome story of this play--how the weavers starved, how the weavers revolted, and that wonderful ending, old age stiffened in death and childhood merrily unconscious.
With this grewsome tale ends all account of Norse attempts at exploring or colonizing Vinland, though references to Vinland by no means end here.
Marco Polo identified him with one Togrul Wang, who was overcome and slain by the mighty Jenghis; but he would not stay dead, any more than the grewsome warlock in Russian nursery lore.
He started at the grewsome heap on the floor as if he had just now chanced to cast eye upon it.
As I was about to remark," he went on, "it is strange how darkness and a touch of the grewsome affect one's mind.
Down in the sick bay aft, the surgeon and his assistants have made ready for their grewsome task.
Were this alone the raison d'etre or the logical outcome of the work--mere identification of edible and poisonous species--the grewsome symbol which is so conspicuous on two of my pages might have been spared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grewsome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
