griesly

Phantom-like, as in a mirror, rise the griesly scenes of death --

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

He directs the youth's eye to the black mouth of the dragon-hole and describes with griesly detail the monster inhabiting it.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

And griesly spectres, which the Fiend had raised430

Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book 1909

For we caught the "griesly terror," Ráhu, at his horrid work, towards the end of May, four years ago.

An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition Francis William Bain 1901

Chaucer's seven-lined stanza and described with a somber imaginative power, the figure of Sorrow, her abode {68} in the "griesly lake" of

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

It was an allegory, written in Chaucer's seven-lined stanza, and described, with a somber imaginative power, the figure of Sorrow, her abode in the "griesly lake" of Avernus, and her attendants, Remorse,

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

Half seen through deepest gloom, and griesly gapes,

Endymion 1884

The Captain of Partisans had been reaping the stubble field, the autumnal harvests of his chin, which were quite too griesly to be suffered to offend his own or other eyes.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

Among these soldiers were those who had congregated at Master Sancroft's the day before, and they were well prepared to support the cause of their griesly paramours.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Master Sancroft's the day before, and they were well prepared to support the cause of their griesly paramours.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838