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  • Not a choice between his own grisly death and an even worse murder.†  (source)
  • Throughout our grisly tour I was numb with shock, and could only gasp and stare.†  (source)
  • Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight.†  (source)
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  • She nodded at Myra, who was gobbling up a slice of grisly pink cake and staring at me as if she wanted to lick me.†  (source)
  • Because of this cold reality, most jockeys would ride through virtually anything, and they shrugged off the grisliest injuries.†  (source)
  • The purple, puckered scar was even grislier than the ones Aunt Hannah and Martin had shown them.†  (source)
  • I had never seen another witch's craft room before, and I walked its shelves expecting I do not know what, a hundred grisly things, kraken livers, dragons' teeth, the flayed skin of giants.†  (source)
  • As for me, said Dame Elaine, I said never nor did never thing that should in any wise displease him, but with the rebuke that Queen Guenever gave him I saw him swoon to the earth; and when he awoke he took his sword in his hand, naked save his shirt, and leapt out at a window with the grisliest groan that ever I heard man make.†  (source)
  • Sophie vaguely recalled the name from a grisly tale in history class.†  (source)
  • I was undeniably a nightmare, a monster of the grisliest kind.†  (source)
  • Many of the houses were afire, and the Jaqqa rhan had been about their grisly work.†  (source)
  • As for me, said Dame Elaine, I said never nor did never thing that should in any wise displease him, but with the rebuke that Queen Guenever gave him I saw him swoon to the earth; and when he awoke he took his sword in his hand, naked save his shirt, and leapt out at a window with the grisliest groan that ever I heard man make.†  (source)
  • In New York's Harlem, yet another holdup has ended in a grisly scene of murder.†  (source)
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