"I almost wish you were right, Bunny! It would be even better fun than I mean to make it as it is. But it may console you to hear that it was I who gave them your name. I told them you were a far keener criminologist than myself. I am delighted to hear they have taken my hint, and that we are to meet at their gruesome board."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
I flung out limp hands and smote the air. Raffles bidden to what he had well called this "gruesome board," not as a cricketer but, clearly, as a suspected criminal! Raffles wrong all. the time, and I right for once in my original apprehension! And still no Raffles in sight - no Raffles to warn - no Raffles, and the clocks striking eight!英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Its subject was the so-called Black Museum at Scotland Yard; and from the catchpenny text we first learned that the gruesome show was now enriched by a special and elaborate exhibit known as the Raffles Relics.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Arno Holz, one of the youngest dramatists of that period, startled the Philistines out of their ease and comfort with his FAMILIE SELICKE. The play deals with society's refuse, men and women of the alleys, whose only subsistence consists of what they can pick out of the garbage barrels. A gruesome subject, is it not? And yet what other method is there to break through the hard shell of the minds and souls of people who have never known want, and who therefore assume that all is well in the world?英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
The Indian was digging in the sand and dust under the shelving wall. He threw out an object that rang against the stone. It was a belt buckle. He threw out old shrunken, withered boots. He came upon other things, and then he ceased to dig. The grave of desert prospectors! Gale had seen more than one. Ladd had told him many a story of such gruesome finds.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
That question linked the dark, gruesome, fantastic nightmare on to actuality.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Well, not us, but a new friend of ours had a gruesome accident, and we are just devastated.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Tomorrow morning, one of our neighbors will stumble on a gruesome surprise, two bodies side by side.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
There is much to be afraid of in this world, but what we fear has nothing to do with gruesome masks or plastic spiders or lifelike monsters.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》