grim

Our military leaders recognised, far sooner than the rest of us, that this war was going to be a grim and desperate business.

Daly and Fettin were holding on like grim Death, for the track was rough and the speed unprecedented for that road—a new one.

Poverty stood at his hearth,—when Viola's grateful smile and liberal hand came to chase the grim fiend away.

Grim legend clings around the account of Lags last illness and his funeral.

Donald threw himself into the work before him with grim determination.

And that grim present was in the person of a girl with tear-streaked face who looked up at her, sobbing.

Andy, crouching on the bottom of the boat, held on like grim death.

"There isn't the slightest doubt about it being painful to you," was Reddy's grim retort.

It seemed a grim joke to call it that, when her whole food supply consisted of a soup cube and a chocolate tablet.

It was such a grim sort of an oh that I repented some more, though indeed it was not necessary.