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