10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREWSOME»
Discover the use of
grewsome in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
grewsome and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I think I prefer her, and even Grimbones and Muff, to Aunt Grewsome. When that
little grey woman hears that any of her family is ill, she starts by express train from
any remote part of the country to take possession of them, as if they were an ...
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2000 Weddings But No Funerals!: none
The wind gusts again, to the chorus of 'Ooooh' The Chauffeur rushes to the Bride
and covers her eyes with his hat, protecting her from the 'grewsome' X rated
display. A voice from somewhere in the crowd shouting .... 'Ooooh its grewsome'.
Les Stubbs, Benjamin J. West, 2011
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Language-Change Index begrudging for grudging: Stage 4 gruesome is so
spelled—not ✳grewsome. E.g.: “Hughes's innkeeper obligingly applied his mouth
to the 'Blawing Stwun,' producing 'a grewsome [read gruesome] sound between a
...
GREWSOME GUILLOTINE SOLD AT AUCTION One of the guillotines used
during the French Revolution was recently sold at auction in Paris, its purchaser
being a music-hall proprietor in the Monmartre section. The grewsome instrument
of ...
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Pastoral: Comedy in Three Acts
grewsome. [Entering from kitc1u'7i] I want to see the present occupant of the Van
de Water farm. larry. [Enters with grewsome] What's your line — apples?
grewsome. No, sir — Real Estate. LARRY. Oh. grewsome. Confidentially, I hate
real ...
A keen rivalry, therefore, of course existed between Miss Grewsome and some of
her lady friends to obtain the privilege of a seat in court on remarkable occasions.
Upon the whole, Miss Grewsome was most successful, for her wealth and her ...
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The Killing of Chester Bartell
Although its readers were spared the "grewsome" details, the newspaper did
provide some trivia about those attending the trial. Several of these observations
were as follows: •" There was "standing room only" in the courtroom during the
trial.
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Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describibg the ...
CHAPTER XL. THE SCALP DANCE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE— GHASTLY
TROPHIES OF MASSACRE AND WAR^-THE WAR DANCE AND ITS OBJECT—
GREWSOME TRINKETS WORN. The Scalp Dance — Treatment of Scalps—
Scalp ...
James Lee Humfreville, 2002
He heaped fresh wood upon his fire, that the bright light might drive out the "
grewsome things that lurked above, below, and around him. He became afraid to
look behind him, lest some shapeless mass of hmid-sea-birth — some voracious
...
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Lurline Stuart, Michael Roe, 2001
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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
Even the Whit- maniacs find rather grewsome [sic] its horrible verbatim report of
the autopsy, the physicians' note-books, the long prosy translated articles, and,
above all, the repellent personal egotism of the old, broken-down, dying bard ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREWSOME»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
grewsome is used in the context of the following news items.
Sesquicentenni-what? Nevada in 1864
The Chinese, a large minority, lived down the mountain, away from the mines, with their "curious trinkets, grewsome [sic] smells of doubtful ... «Reno Gazette Journal, Oct 14»
Oct. 18, 1844: 'Great flood of 1844' devastates Buffalo
... men and women busy all through the night trying to rescue whomever they might from the grewsome (sic) death that stared them in the face. «Buffalo News, Oct 14»
50 YEARS AGO: Baton twirlers take Sioux City stage
ZEPPELIN ENGINEER TALKS WAR: A grewsome picture of the effects which will be produced when Germany's dirigible aircraft are turned ... «Sioux City Journal, Aug 14»
Man dies after falling into wood chipper
THEY SAY THEY'RE NOT SURE HOW HE WENT IN BUT THEY SAY IT'S OBVIOUSLY A VERY GREWSOME SCENE, THIS ALL UNFOLDING ... «Local 10, Jun 14»
Gray matter, or many more shades of grey/gray, part 1
Both grue and growsome would have remained obscure regionalisms but for Walter Scott, who introduced the adjective grewsome, now spelt ... «OUPblog, Dec 13»
Washingtonian — 100 years ago
5, and at 9 o'clock last night they telephoned the grewsome facts to the sheriff's office at Montesano. The bodies lie in a wild and rugged spot, ... «Grays Harbor Daily World, Apr 13»
Twitter fans take it a step too far with the trend 'Cutting For Bieber'
People in a bid to stop Bieber from smoking weed have been posting such grewsome images with the hashtag #CutForBieber. Pissed with the ... «TopNews New Zealand, Jan 13»
A global ingle-neuk, or, the size of our vocabulary
Touzle “disarrange.” This is a variant of tousle, as in tousled hair. Wait for glosses like realise “realize” and vice versa. Grewsome is “gruesome. «OUPblog, Oct 12»
Oliver Otis Howard took two bullets for the Union
“Then they bore me to the amputating room, a place a little grewsome (sic) withal from arms, legs, and hands not yet all carried off and poor ... «Bangor Daily News, Jun 12»
Book Review: Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!: The Most Complete …
H. P. Lovecraft gets three entries: the “Herbert West – Reanimator” (1922) series that appeared monthly in Grewsome Tales, followed by ... «Blogcritics.org, Oct 11»
