"Grimness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... More than forty years have passed since they buried him in the little boot-hill at Florence, Arizona. To-day the town is as conventional as any Eastern village, but it saw a time when men lived up to the rude clean code of our American age of chivalry. During that era Joe Phy met his end with a grimness befitting a son ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt
... Mrs. Cudahy agreed, with quiet grimness, and under her breath she added heavily, ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... grimness of the situation for Maurice lightened for a ridiculous moment. Jacky, breathing very hard, peered from behind his mother, and stretched out to Maurice an extremely dirty, tightly clenched fist. "I got a—a pre-present for you," he explained, ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... said Thirlwell, with some grimness. "I hoped you'd both let the thing go when she ...
— The Lure of the North • Harold Bindloss
... establishment, that's it. I suppose she takes the surgery with it," said Miss Pole, with a little dry laugh at her own joke. But, like many people who think they have made a severe and sarcastic speech, which yet is clever of its kind, she began to relax in her grimness from the moment when she made this allusion to the surgery; and we turned to speculate on the way in which Mrs Jamieson would receive the news. The person whom she had left in charge of her house to keep off followers from her maids to set up a follower of her own! And that follower a man ...
— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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