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