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...ny a niche was drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great fa...

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...d eaten. My mind screamed, This can’t be true! People just don’t go around biting each other like cannibals! It has to be a joke. But I knew from the grotesque salty-metallic smell wafting through the air that the blood was all too real. It wasn’t a joke…but the grossest thing I’d ever seen in my life. “Dean, what’s happening?” Sherry asked, shaking my shoulder franticall...

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... I’m drunk, sir?’ ‘In one gross, but expressive, word, drunk.’ The painter grotesquely flung himself back in his chair as though he had been struck a ... ...elf, and Susie was obliged to confess that he was at his best. There was a grotesque droll ery about him that was very diverting, and it was almost i...

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... expertly grafted onto it. Connected directly below the skull the body has a short neck and along with the lack of arms, legs and sexual organs looks grotesque. Shocked by what he has become Grailem moves the new body in agitation as the head scientist enters the room. Looking down at Grailem and seeing Grailem's eyes staring at him he forms his mouth into an attempt a...

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...more than power, cruelty. Other animals use power to get food or social status. Only we human animals include torture, gratuitous violence and grotes...

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...UBLICITY _________ 66 SLEEPING DURING THE NEW YEAR’S NIGHT ________________ 67 DILETTANTE _______ 67 PASSIONATE _______ 67 DICTATORSHIP _____ 67 GROTESQUE _______ 67 BUREAUCRATIZE ___ 67 ESTIMATION _______ 67 REJECTED _________ 67 CINDER ____________ 68 THE MOLE _________ 68 GLOVES ___________ 68 PRIMITIVISM _______ 68 THAUMAZEIN ______ 68 WINE ______________...

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...ating influ ence of his books. Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque “chivalry” doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here... ...complish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible. Graveyards may have been justifiable in the... ...eir train all manner of giants, dwarfs, monstrosi ties, and other diverting grotesquerie—a startling and won derful sort of show, as it filed solemn... ...ld last in London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and bi... ...came out in conversation, that in two different instances Mr. Cable got into grotesque trouble by using, in his books, next to impossible French names... ...e life of a steamboat clerk, now dead, had dropped a bit of romance—somewhat grotesque romance, but ro mance nevertheless. When I knew him he was a s...

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...ighest mettle. As it would have been hard to count the dozens upon dozens of grotesque figures that were ever ready to commit all sorts of absurdities...

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...han the matutinal apparition of an ugly old maid at her window? Of all the grotesque sights which amuse the eyes of travellers in country towns, that ...

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... Ambrose flourished his stick at them, upon which they decided that he was grotesque merely, and four instead of one cried “Bluebeard!” in chorus. Alt...

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...reatures should be added to it as curiosities, which, from their extremely grotesque appearance, and the shattered state of their intellect, were gift...

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... with massive beams. Over the doorway was an an cient porch, quaintly and grotesquely carved; and here on summer evenings the more favoured customers... ...f carpet, flanked by a ghostly screen, enriched with figures, grinning and grotesque. Af ter lighting with his own hands the faggots which were heape... ... whole frame jogged and shaken at every motion of his horse’s feet; a more grotesque or more ungainly figure can hardly be conceived. In lieu of whip,...

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...e road. One night, some country people passing very late, saw me in a most grotesque habit, busily employed in these observations: the light, which st...

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...ous nonage, that he was a zealot, that he twice displayed (compared with his grotesque companions) some tincture of soldierly reso- lution and even of...

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...ind still in use in the provinces, though they have disappeared elsewhere. Grotesque figures had been carved on the horn handles of the knives. These ...

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...ent Hell was breeding here! And yet this scene, painful as it was, had its grotesque fea- tures, which, in a less interested observer than Nicholas, m... ...istle, during which Newman Noggs, as he folded it up, gazed with a kind of grotesque pity at the boy of desperate character therein referred to; who, ... ...him.’ The old lord, evidently much flattered by this suspicion, bestowed a grotesque leer upon Kate as he passed; and, receiv- ing another tap with th... ...ther; and undulations shapely and uncouth, smooth and rugged, graceful and grotesque, thrown negli- gently side by side, bounded the view in each dire...

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... their faces, put themselves into ridiculous disguises, and make a hundred grotesque faces to give us whereat to laugh. This conception of mine is now...

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... so, Ermine! One reason why she is so intoler- able to me is that she is a grotesque caricature of what you used to be.” “You have hit it! I see why I...

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... sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumined; and how they, Who saw those figures on the margin...

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...f the apartment there stood a hazelwood bureau with a bulging body on four grotesque legs—the perfect image of a bear. Also, the tables and the chairs... ... whole—lies exquisitely mirrored in the river below, where hollow willows, grotesquely shaped (some of them rooted on the river’s banks, and some in t...

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...serve Siegfried for the enterprise to which he has destined him he makes a grotesque attempt to teach him fear. He appeals to his experience of the te... ...tely expressive opening phrases lead to decora- tive passages which are as grotesque from the dramatic point of view as the music which Alberic sings ... ...ergetic subscription-hunting ladies from people who must have had the most grotesque misconcep- tions of the composer’s aims—among others, the Khedive...

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...cience and religion from our ignorance and barbarism, and left us glorying grotesquely in the licence suddenly accorded to our vilest passions and mos... ...he war rationing system, “giving them the coupon.” Other incidents were so grotesque that I cannot mention them without enabling the reader to identif...

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...t their actions are forced on them from without, and the external force is grotesquely inappropriate except when it is quite conventional, as in the c... ...dinesses and cruelties, curiosities and fancies, habits and superstitions, grotesque and ridiculous to the mature intelligence. When they suddenly beg... ...e’s hand the great chords roll out again but this time Mozart’s music gets grotesquely adulterated with Gounod’s. A scarlet halo begins to glow; and i...

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...ll there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunc- tion of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snug- ness, with passionate cont...