The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Their bodies were heaped together, a leathern carpet was spread over them, and on this gruesome table Abul Abbas and his councillors feasted. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
I was alone with my gruesome companions--with the bones of dead men whose fate was likely but the index of my own. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
It was a most grotesque and horrid tableau and I hastened out into the fresh air; glad to escape from so gruesome a place. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
So soon as the last of the gruesome procession had disappeared the girl urged us to take up our flight once more. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.