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