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