How To Use Grim In A Sentence
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This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
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Names will be taken from those who intend travelling on next year's pilgrimage to Lourdes.
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Grim, sure, but true - not to mention ruthlessly egalitarian, which is why people rarely lob the P-word at those whose answer to life is, "Who knows?
Why I love Carolyn Hax
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Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.
The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
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Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver.
Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
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The Lord ministered to her, offering unconditional love and acceptance and washing her clean from the grime of her experience.
Growing Through Loss and Grief
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Need-wrack and grim nithing, of night-bales the greatest.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
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Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike.
The Satanic Verses
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The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route.
Times, Sunday Times
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They regularly mispronounce their Js in names begriming with JO, but not elsewhere.
Gallstones of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
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Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason.
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Grimaldi studies insect fossils in both amber and stone.
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Booth paints a grim picture of life in the next century.
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To date, there is also little evidence to support this more grim prognosis.
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A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm.
Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
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Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam.
COMPULSION
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Grimm leveled his confiscated weapon at the blue-clad human, sighting down its length.
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The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially.
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And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth.
THE BROKEN GOD
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WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on Tuesday's (Nov. 2) elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is already clear: the party's outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start.
Have Democrats Lost Faith In Faith-Based Outreach?
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We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint.
Along the Battlement
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Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
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It dawned today dankly raining, but by mid morning and my coffee pilgrimage there was sunlight, intermittently, and a warming breeze from the south.
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Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
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She's going to Grimsby on a coach.
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Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp.
The Scottish Chiefs
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It is certain that Byron had begun the fourth canto, and written some thirty or more stanzas, before Hobhouse rejoined him at his villa of La Mira on the banks of the Brenta, in July, 1817; and it would seem that, although he had begun by saying "that he was too short a time in Rome for it," he speedily overcame his misgivings, and accomplished, as he believed, the last "fytte" of his pilgrimage.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims.
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She saw a tube of lipstick out of the corner of her eye and applied it to her lips before smacking them together looking at the result before grimacing and swiping it from her lips.
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We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate.
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
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Imagine how much worse it was in olden days. This is grim.
The Sun
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No belief flowered in the grim Elasian face, but the agonizer's threatening touch lifted.
Firestorm
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The flats tower above you - there are perhaps twenty five floors in the building, which looks grimy and worn.
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Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. number.'
Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
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The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition.
The Sun
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He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
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The child hung onto the rail like grim death.
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All that is left is a grim arena where matter is collected by scavengers and transformed into useful merchandise.
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It is a world in which the grimace is often more eloquent than the phrase.
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A 16-year-old boy, dressed in a Grim Reaper costume, has died after skolling a bottle of vodka he took from his grandmother's house, a media report says.
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He sat up and grimaced a little because his back ached, his entire body was stiff and his feet were cold.
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Who would have thought in the age of grime and dubstep that ballroom dancing would glide back into vogue?
Times, Sunday Times
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Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.
Hitler's Golden Book
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I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover.
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His clothes are begrimed with oil and dirt.
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His expression twisted into a grimace as the bone dust began to fly.
Harvest
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‘In this pilgrimage-based show, we feature old and historic temples, churches, gurdwaras and masjids,’ he says.
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He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do
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The police officers were silent and grim-faced.
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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The blow dryer slipped out of his hands and I grimaced as the hot air blasted directly on my face.
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One early morning at an elementary school bus stop, I gaily waved at the visible faces of our future leaders and innovators, children whose dreams and innocence were yet unscathed by disappointment or grim reality.
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It is a natural part of civilisation's lust of re-arrangement that we should be so ready to conventionalise the beauty of this world into decorative patterns for our pilgrim tents.
The Roadmender
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She was gritting her teeth, making frightful grimaces, snarling, uttering sharp and continuous cries that sounded like "kh-ah! kh-ah!
CHAPTER III
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The blast yesterday ripped through crowds of pilgrims and vendors of food and religious paraphernalia.
Times, Sunday Times
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This perfected, water soluble cream completely removes makeup and grime, without leaving greasy residue.
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It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash, dead flies and sandwich crumbs.
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What, someone thinks a Pilgrims got roasting bags from a Native Americans?!?
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He gestured for Grimm to proceed.
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There was something indescribably grim and bodeful in those isochronal batterings of the solid ground.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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Not too be too anile, but I think that is from A New Pilgrims Progress, not Roughing it
Digesting Good Literature
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That points to the likelihood that grimy hands had affected the silvering, either before or after it was applied.
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Ziller had pilgrimaged several times to Africa, place of his birth.
Another Roadside Attraction
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The men were all very grimy, and their weariness showed in their filthy faces.
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He is barely recognisable among the grime, dressed in filthy rags and as anaemic and leaden as his surroundings.
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Dom Grimes and George Ross worked tirelessly in midfield and Sam Pollock worked hard on the right.
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You know, most recording studios are in the grimmest of locations.
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Drawing nearer we peeped with fascinated horror through the grimy, unwashed windows at the interior still life.
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A "palmer" is someone who wears a palm leaf as testimony of having taken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Maggie's Farm
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The parity in tennis offers a tonic to that grim statistic, a rare shaft of sunlight in a judgmental world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pilgrim (Ya Hájj) is a polite address even to those who have not pilgrimaged.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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What is there to celebrate and explore when my life is so grim?
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O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns.
REVIEW: Black Static #16
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There were the black, the white, the brindle, the grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and the lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim.
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Lucy breathed in deeply, and turned her head upwards, accepting the water, feeling it wash away her dirt and grime.
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The frescoes, which had been covered by centuries of soot and grime, have begun to be restored.
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He grimaced at the thought of eating dehydrated food; I described the simple pleasure of drinking ice-cold water from a mountain stream.
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They opened fire on pilgrims at the shrine of Amarnath, southeast of Srinagar.
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RIO FERDINAND loves a bit of grime and garage.
The Sun
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While often sad and grim, the book is nevertheless sprinkled with the author's trademark humor.
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Visiting relatives, dignitaries, or pilgrims would return home bearing cache blades, cores, and bladelets made from Flint Ridge flint.
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Donating a share of one's income to charity, zakat, is a fundamental requirement of being a Muslim, more important - some say - than the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
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She fought him grimly, watched by other motorists unwilling to help, and then the man let go and ran.
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By twisting her body and bracing her legs to counteract the momentum, she barely managed to prevent herself from falling face-first onto the hard, grimy pavement.
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The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
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Throughout, the metaphor of brother against brother is a kind of metonymy for civil butchery in which family members slaughter one another in a grim contest of reciprocity.
Shakespeare
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This ghost, laughing a little too loudly, would be all the more terrible for the flicker of awful, self-deluding pride kindling in it at the thought of white-knuckling through the grimmest month of the year with nothing to talk about in company but how it has given up drink.
After the Binge Must Come the Purge
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State-of-the-art production and Gilmour's note-perfect playing collided with bassist Roger Waters's grim lyrical vision, which fretted about materialism and age creeping up on you.
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In respect of pilgrimage, however, he remained faithful to Arab and Meccan traditions.
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There are a number of former tribespeople among the Pilgrims.
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The man's face is set in a displeased grimace, his brow furrowed in certain displeasure.
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It's all set to riotous grime music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wipe away any excess with a tissue to remove dirt, grime and bacteria, then allow to dry naturally.
The Sun
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Wilkinson made his League debut for Grimsby as a teenager and scored after five minutes against Charlton Athletic.
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A dusk of midges danced above but their features were set like grim tutelaries.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Perhaps nothing can bring about racial equality, Wicker notes grimly.
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But Statham's delivery is strictly grim and stoic, utterly without humour.
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Norton (aka my sourdough starter) will be traveling to Ohio with me, in sort of a reverse Oregon trail pilgrimage.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Two other pilgrims from India joined us and together we fought our way through the dense crowd.
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I've seen her so-called paintings; they're fairly grim, I can tell you!
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I'm worried people have forgotten why those Pilgrims shipped over here in that floating breadbox.
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The soot of London begrimes every object in the room.
Crowded Out! and Other Sketches
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Instead I was confronted with a grimy-looking building with billboards covering the windows and obscuring the interior.
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As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
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Landon cracked his eyes open and grimaced in pain from the pounding headache; like an incessant jackhammer drilling into his skull at all angles.
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Lord Ogleby calls him his "cephalic snuff, and no bad medicine against megrims, vertigoes, and profound thinkings.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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The last day was grim, with a succession of closeout sales clearing out all but the most shunned of merchandise.
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The kind of 10-minute blast of unadulterated grimness which turns up out of the blue late at night on BBC2, haranguing you with supposedly meaningful images of alcoholic depressives shouting at each other in tower blocks.
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The latest news from the terror front is hardly all grim.
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I've sat in on these liver distribution meetings, and it's a grim calculus.
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It is a day of reverent pilgrimage with the celebrant of the Mass bringing the Blessed Sacrament to the island in a special currach.
More Boats
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Of course, the First Thanksgiving included not only the Pilgrims, but also their Wampanoag guests.
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Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.
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In their capacity as culture brokers boatmen also assume a position of authority when guiding pilgrims, selectively informing them about the city.
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An icy blast of wind from the Arctic swirled down the hillside and froze the skin on his face. He grimaced, hunched his shoulders, and trudged on.
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Helen made a grimace of disgust when she saw the raw meat.
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Pilgrimages to the sites of miracles and holy relics grew ever more popular, and the number of such places increased.
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Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Thus, as you watched, and however grim the revelations, it was as if a grating background noise which had annoyed you for decades had simply ceased without your having noticed it.
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How are you supposed to fill up the time waiting in one of these grim places?
Times, Sunday Times
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His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
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The pilgrims from Evesham arrived in Canterbury on Tuesday and visited the shrine late on Wednesday morning.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Meanwhile, one grime figure after another joined him on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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His voice was cultured Oxbridge, and the grim intent in that voice made Cardiff and Pearce stand obediently aside.
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She grimaced, then glanced over her shoulder to make sure no one else was listening.
Uprising
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Ancient dust and grimy spiderwebs festooned her coverall.
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In grime, people listen for what the MCs are saying, in dubstep people listen for the production.
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The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
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She pinwheeled end-over-end and out of sight as I hopped up and down, holding my right foot and grimacing like Oliver Hardy.
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Dumping shampoo and conditioner on my head, I squirted some shower gel on a sponge and scrubbed the grime off my body.
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Ecole de Droit; the huge Alsacian carabineer, grimly smiling under his sandy moustaches and glittering brass helmet; the jolly nurse, in red calico, who had been to Paris to show mamma her darling
The Paris Sketch Book
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He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
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One evening when Lilly arrived home from the hospital she found Zoe squatting in bed, her face naughtily screwed into a little grimalkin knot, elbows pressed into her sides, palms up, and all attitudinized to emulate a Chinese god.
Star-Dust
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He grimaced, his mind dwelling on the premature thoughts that brewed inside him.
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Computers crash, characters bicker, and the general tone of the series is somewhat grim, with occasional bursts of humor.
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Kevin Perrotta writes about the Bible and leads pilgrimages to the Middle East.
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She has authored articles that range in topics from pilgrims’ maps to devotional arts, gender and ethnicity issues in Buddhist patronage, cults of saints in Asian traditions, and images of Buddhist cosmographies.
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The appearance of Travolta trying to be evil by way of Hugh Hefner and Tony Manero is funny enough, but the addition of some slapstick later in the film lightens, for the moment at least, what is an overbearingly grim and depressing movie.
Eric’s Top 10 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever » Scene-Stealers
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Residents of the village in Ireland's County Offaly were eagerly anticipating the president's pilgrimage.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland
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Pilgrimages to shrines and holy places at home and abroad attract tens of thousands of people each year.
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He had seemed to regard his wife's chamber as a tabernacle, enshrining that which he held most sacred, and would never enter it until he was cleansed from the grime and dust of the stockyard and cattle camp, and had laid aside the associations of his working day.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Led by acclaimed jazz performer Carol Grimes , the group's genre-defying repertoire ranges from Cole Porter classics to ethnic punk.
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‘Un Secret, a movie about ordinary Jewish people in extraordinarily savage times, is a current success with French moviegoers, and Claude Miller, who adapted the film from Philippe Grimbert’s eponymous novel, is surprised.
Vitro Nasu » 2008 » January
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Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch.
Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
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On Sunday night I pilgrimed to Dundas to see Pernell Goodyear and the Freeway with Darryl and Charlene Dash.
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To imply that playing a video game leads to a premature rendezvous with the Grim Reaper is a non-sequitur of colossal proportions.
SPAWNPOINT.COM - Gaming News Feed
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White's descriptions of daily life in medieval England are ravishingly vivid: Like a restorer of antiques, he strips away the grime and smoke from the past until it's bright and clear as the present.
Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'
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Throughout the grim tower blocks and porridge-grey council estates an implacable culture of cronyism, corruption and omertà rules.
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His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
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This, not very popular, livery continued for some time, but the buses began to look very grimy and in the late 1970s a variation of the former tram livery of predominantly green with cream relief was introduced.
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cried Roderick, pushing aside his half-eaten porridge with a disdainful grimace.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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I spent some time last weekend in Oslo and there was no dirt or grime of any kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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RIO FERDINAND loves a bit of grime and garage.
The Sun
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I don't know about you, my reaction when Kitty Pilgrim reported that is that the Social Security Administration has to be out of its cotton-picking mind not to have advanced the interest of Social Security cardholders, which is all of us in this country, and to deal with that.
CNN Transcript May 12, 2006
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Only the worshippers of Buddha now behold the gleam of the Oriental Sun on the golden roofs of the lamasery; the great caravans from the city of the Dalai Lama pass through the border town with no one to tell the pilgrims of the "Heavenly Ruler.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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Familiar river scenes are shown as the boat ride progresses, such as a cow carcass floating in the river, the renowned cremation ghats and locals, as well as pilgrims, performing ritual ablutions.
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Yes, five hours had been gathered in by the grim scytheman.
Waifs and Strays Part 1
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Lindisfarne became a place of pilgrimage during the priory's ‘golden age’ in the seventh century and all the tourism literature boasts it has remained so ever since.
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Like the well, corporate worship provides a vital resource to help Christian pilgrims along their journey of faith.
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All adults hope to conduct the Islamic hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, at some time during their life.
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Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings.
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Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent.
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While the recriminations continued to fly, hundreds of bodies remained unclaimed in mosques at the pilgrimage site.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll feel every punch, grimace at every brutal knock-down and celebrate every win as if it were your last in EA's fantastic boxing video game.
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The traverse east to west across the island is a pilgrimage that many famous geologists have made.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold.
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In every hadj some of the pilgrims remain behind: the Mohammedan, whenever resident for any time in a town, takes a wife, and is thus often induced to settle permanently on the spot.
Travels in Arabia
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I felt a little uncharitable: maybe they were just honest but hard-up Grimsby trawlermen, reduced to hawking their catch on the streets.
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It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
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Initial daydreams of a little finca close to a Spanish beach were destroyed by the cost of even the grimmest coastal properties.
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Deuce managed to keep a wry grimace from his face, just barely.
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Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-SackJacob and Wilhelm Grimm There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat.
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It came to pass that in mid-August, shortly after returning from the pilgrimage, Terada's lord, Matsudaira Ukyodayu, was appointed to a new position as deputy castellan of Osaka Castle.
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Finally, we should comment on the relative abundance of ozone and hydrogen peroxide at Cape Grim.
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Previous excavations undertaken at the site have uncovered a Roman coin, a Viking comb and clay moulds which were used for making pilgrims' badges out of lead in the shape of St Andrew crucified on the cross.
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Today, pilgrims travel to Sergiyev Posad to venerate the saint's relics, and 300 seminarians study theology there.
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The flood that began Thursday at the Grimsvotn volcano is similar to one in 2004 that lasted five days and ended with an eruption that disrupted European air traffic, a University of Iceland geophysicist said.
World Watch
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Ridolfi (1646) mentions: “In casa Grimani da Santo Ermagora la Sentenza di Salomone, di bella macchia, colla figura del ministro non finita.”
Giorgione
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There was Marco in grimy apron plating up, or opening scallops, looking every inch the piratical hero, with his long black hair and sunken eyes and high cheek bones, surrendered long ago to his new-found affluence.
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The thought causes Julia to grimace for a moment until a figure swings round in front of her.
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His aspect was perfectly that of a pilgrim , heightened also by an apostolic dignity.
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Up here in the frozen North it is grim, nothing but cloth caps, whippets and warm beer.
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A spokesman said 16 of them would appear before magistrates in Grimsby and Cleethorpes today while another two were bailed to appear before magistrates tomorrow.
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In 1975, he was given responsibility for the pastoral care of Dublin pilgrims during the HolyYear in Rome.
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The implications for morale, a crucial component in the grim chemistry of war, are obvious.
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Lourdes, a small town in the Pyrenees in south-west France now attracts five million pilgrims every year from all over the world.
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Most Muslims try to make a pilgrimage/go on a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their life.
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Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
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Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
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The demonic glowing eyes he carried gazed upon the spirit of Phyoni, grimacing at the sight.
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Her dark curls were disheveled, her expression grim and making her look every one of her fifty-plus years.
Etched in Bone
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There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
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grim determination
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A rictus grin crumpled his careworn face; just another lost soul grimly drinking into the morning, pathetically clutching at the warmth of the false camaraderie of the night before.
Survived another workshop!
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Not only will the cuts apply to cod but will apply also to associated species such as whiting, haddock, sole, saithe, monk, plaice, prawns, hake and megrim.
