But in spite of its merits, its dialect wearies the modern reader, and gives it an air of grotesqueness which is very alien to the spirit of the Latin. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
For the first time he felt its true grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
She laughed genuinely at the grotesqueness of the idea. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER II] Reference
These lose their grotesqueness as his characters speak and act. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The horror of the situation was not lessened by its grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Fear pulled at her lips and eyes, distorting her into grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The fact that, in spite of their grotesqueness, they were appealing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Death]
Nature's oddity and grotesqueness, have a substantial value, as well as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
She had no wish to fall into that grotesqueness — in which she had seen women. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
There is also that grotesqueness which the French detect even in Shakespeare, e. g. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Bink watched the awful things for a long moment, fascinated by their very grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
Please to put yourself in my place and contemplate the grisly grotesqueness of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
I, Darrell Standing, was the linking personality that connected all bizarreness and grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The idea appealed to me with no sense of grotesqueness; but rather as something both possible and probable. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. From Wordnik.com. [THE KANAKA SURF] Reference
Colossal it certainly is, as Howells and Stedman agreed: colossal in its grotesqueness as in its sublimity. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
His fancy would have been struck with the grotesqueness of many of the ideas and institutions of those times. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
He stood, walked past her, and prevented himself from bolting toward the door and freedom from her grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Botticelli treating them with a grotesqueness which shows how far they were from any conviction of their reality. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Benefit of the Doubt] Reference
To truly grasp the grotesqueness of what you said requires that you have both a conscience and some understanding of history. From Wordnik.com. [Larisa Alexandrovna: All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined): An Open Letter to Bush] Reference
But if you can really grasp the shameful grotesqueness of the old life, you will begin to appreciate the interpretation of old. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
Grafting is also adopted for some of the Cactuses to add to the grotesqueness of their appearance; a spherical Echinocactus or. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Despite these irregularities, despite the grotesqueness of these events, the accusation against my brother has not been withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Exile Speaks Out] Reference
“Thank you,” he said, contrasting the grotesqueness of May-may in European dress and hair style with the perfection of Shevaun. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
With these are combined delightful stiff peacocks, and curious bunches of grapes, rosettes, and animal forms of quaint grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
On the other hand, the Jester selected his clothes not only with a view to their grotesqueness but also with an eye to their richness. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
The only element even slightly fantastical is the sheer grotesqueness of the characters, the sheer size of the giant, moldering castle. From Wordnik.com. [Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?] Reference
Amsterdam is as good as Venice, with a superadded humor and grotesqueness, which gives the sight-seer the most singular zest and pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
In conversation he made numerous odd noises of no known marketable value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference
Calton thought he had never seen such a repulsive-looking old crone; and, in truth, her ugliness was, in its very grotesqueness well worthy the pencil of a Dore. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Hansom Cab] Reference
In either case, if the indulgence in these terms descended into a motley grotesqueness, it was excused as excessive fervour carrying the enthusiast off his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The grotesqueness lay in the great inverted bell which surmounted the diving saucer and appeared to be secured to its upper surface by a four-inch-deep steel collar. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
The shapes, both of men and animals, were awkward, cumbrous, and unnatural; every part was out of proportion, and the most solemn scenes acquired a ludicrous grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Even more exasperating, he straightway became the idol of all the girls at school, whose zeal in posing for him was only equaled by the grotesqueness of some of their postures. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
Things that were terrible enough at the time appear to us now as they recede into the past through a thickening, highly retractile veil of grotesqueness and picturesque absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
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