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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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griesly

"grisly, adj." OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2014. Web. 21 October 2014.

Causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to hear; causing such feelings as are associated with thoughts of death and ‘the other world’, spectral appearances, and the like. In mod. use tending to a weaker sense: Causing uncanny or unpleasant feelings; of forbidding appearance; grim, ghastly.
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I.560 - I.799

Related:  to have thir lot in pain,  Thir visages,  Mammon,  Phlegra,  Aspramont,  upheld by old repute,  Babel,  some belated Peasant,  Brigad,  hardening in this strength glories,  Could merit more,  guile,  Hateful to utter,  Monuments of Fame,  downward bent,  As when Heavens Fire,  and what resounds,  bossy Sculptures,  The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,  Seraphic Lords and Cherubim,  Uthers,  or Romance,  Space may produce new Worlds,  Of dauntless courage,  in Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover,  Shorn of his Beams,  Fontarabbia,  who overcomes By force,  How such united force of Gods, how such,  Stood like a Towr,  Paynim,  Memphian,  Doric,  intrencht,  scurff,  Hurling defiance,  Naphtha,  Armoric,  That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,  Baptiz'd or Infidel,  but half his foe,  Thither,  Theb's,  Sovran,  Peerage,  auxiliar,  they relate,  but what power of mind,  Myriads,  his Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at full,  He spake,  about the Hive [ 770 ] In clusters,  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother,  Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks,  Sits Arbitress,  these beyond Compare of mortal prowess,  Pigmean Race,  All her Original brightness,  Bullion,  Warr'd on by Cranes,  th' event,  imbodied,  cruel his eye,  Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes,  remorse,  awful,  Thir Glory witherd,  when Ægypt with Assyria strove,  Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.,  Begirt,  amerc't,  Brusht with the hiss of russling wings,  Monarch in Heav'n,  Babilon,  Pandæmonium,  As when the Sun,  ribs of Gold,  In shape and gesture proudly eminent,  Cressets,  Sat on his faded cheek,  assayd,  Belus or Serapis,  Self-rais'd, and repossess,  dim Eclips,  custome,  testifies,  for his fault,  Tears such as Angels weep,  conclave,  veins of liquid fire,  Which tempted our attempt,  Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,,  Eternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revolt,  New rub'd with Baum,  When Charlemain,  shall fail to re-ascend,  Was not inglorious,  Words interwove,  Cherubim,  Ausonian,  Distends with pride,  puissant,  impious,  Alcairo,  From wing to wing, and half enclose him round,  Mulciber,  fame,  attention held them mute,  repulse,  Biserta,  considerate Pride Waiting revenge,  Perplexes Monarchs,  Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,  Horizontal misty Air,  Pioners,  wing'd with speed,  Deep scars of Thunder had,  Stands on the blasted Heath,  beatific,  fretted Gold,  Browes,  presaging,  Ilium,  thir stately growth