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