Both Uses of
grisly
in
The Scarlet Letter
- As at the waving of a magician's wand, up rose a grisly phantom—up rose a thousand phantoms—in many shapes, of death, or more awful shame, all flocking round about the clergyman, and pointing with their fingers at his breast!†
p. 94.9
- Shortly afterwards, the like grisly sense of the humorous again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought.†
p. 101.7 *
Definition:
repellent or sickening -- frequently as with the uncensored depiction of gruesome death or injury