Grisly. Grim, horrible; an obsolete word, much used in old poetry. Spenser, F. 30: "her darke griesly looke;" Shakespeare, 1 Hen. 47: "My grisly countenance made others fly," etc. See also iv. 322, etc. below.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
The /Marie's/ men rushed for oars, spars, boat-hooks, anything they could lay their hands on for fenders, and held them out to shove off that grisly thing and its impending visitors. these others, terrified also, put out large beams to repel them likewise.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
To see the sun at midnight! How very far off Iceland must be for such marvels to happen! And the fjords? Gaud had read that word several times written among the names of the dead in the chapel of the shipwrecked, and it seemed to portend some grisly thing.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, and war and murder's endless rage." O, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word's right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it in sunshine?英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
He did not turn and run. With God knows what terror knocking at his ribs, he trudged ahead to meet his fate, and lo! the grisly specter proved to be a friendly guide-post to show the way that he should walk in. Brother (for you are my kin that went with me to public school, in the life that you have lived since you first read the story of Harry and the Guide-post, has it been an idle tale, or have you, too, found that what we dreaded most, what seemed to us so terrible in the future has, after all, been a friendly guide-post, showing us the way that we should walk in?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Ere the wet seas had quenched that holocaust, That self-fed flame, that passionate lustihead, Ere grisly death with chill and nipping frost Had withered up those lilies white and red Which, while the boy would through the forest range, Answered each other in a sweet antiphonal counter-change.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
The only way that I can come out ahead, it's pretty grisly.美剧 · 《Billions》
There are several lessons that can be taken from this grisly tale of passion, but the one I draw is this: If you harbor split loyalties, and fail to take a side, your mind may become nothing more than the soil for mint sprigs.美剧 · 《Billions》