He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
Quotes about grisly (15 Quotes)
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'.
There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death . . . a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes a glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death . . .
There's no reason to believe if you had a whole bunch of really grisly stories -- and I'm sure there are grisly stories out there -- people wouldn't watch them,
It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
On an intellectual level, it stayed up on that level, ... It didn't get down to anything grisly, so I was delighted.
So spake the grisly Terror.
But other officials describe the conditions frankly. Bodies have bloated, and heat, water and insects hasten their decomposition. A living person has an immune system with which to kill bacteria, but a deceased body has no protection. The bacteria population explodes. Some of the bodies are so badly decomposed they don't have fingerprints. Others are damaged or torn apart. It's not at all pretty, ... They're finding pieces. If you find an arm, do you call it a body It's pretty grisly.
I thought, 'It's a pretty grisly story, but if he makes a really romantic kind of score it might work,' ... But God knows why that subject matter would speak a musical to him. It's still beyond, I think, most people's comprehension.
Did you tell the National Enquirer, 'What's more, although Blake claims a man was stalking Bonny in the days before her grisly murder, the housekeeper never saw any individual'
We will have no truce or parley with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.
This testimony gives credit indeed to the UN probe into the grisly murder of Hariri.