grim

• Everyone partook in silence--grim silence that was ominous. —  The Black Phantom
• In the next year that excellent artist, Charles Bodmer, painted a group of them from life,--grim-visaged savages, armed with war-club, spear, or rifle, and wrapped in red, green, or brown blankets, their heads close shaven except the erect and bristling scalp-lock, adorned with long eagle-plumes, while both heads and faces are painted with fantastic figures in blue, white, yellow, black, and vermilion. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• His face was white and grim, and his mouth was quivering painfully Then without a word he turned and began to hurry along the line of the gorge. —  A Mating in the Wilds
• I am afraid this has been rather a shock to you I rose from my chair like one in a dream and held out my hand to Thorndyke; and even in the dim light and in my dazed condition I noticed that his face bore a look that I had never seen before; the look of a granite mask of Fate--grim, stern, inexorable My two friends walked with me as far as the gateway at the top of Inner Temple Lane, and as we reached the entry a stranger, coming quickly up the Lane, overtook and passed us. —  The Eye of Osiris
• It looked very grim, and he caught at her hand which held little Lottie's letter What's that?" —  Janice Day at Poketown

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