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