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  • One bit is the ancient scroll because it is written in old language which is difficult to understand, like this.... Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.†   (source)
  • It was a grievous but soothing picture of Rose, one to set against the memory I had of her in which she was shaking me and shaking me, trying to wake me up, work me up, push me out of my natural muddle.†   (source)
  • McAfee had committed the grievous sin of dragging Josie into this, and Alex's mind spiraled wildly as she wondered what she could do to get him fired, or even disbarred.†   (source)
  • There was grievous news today, my lord.†   (source)
  • Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offence he had committed inadvertently?†   (source)
  • "Okay, bye, Charlie," Reynie said quickly, and Sticky gave a playful salute, but Charlie only stared at them with a distraught expression, as if they'd done him some grievous wrong.†   (source)
  • I said nothing, but my mind was churning, trying to think of what grievous thing I'd done to anger the captain.†   (source)
  • THE NIGHT WAS A dreamlike mangle of past and present: a childhood world miraculously intact in some respects, grievously altered in others, as if the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come had joined to host the evening.†   (source)
  • Grievously wounded, Vrael fled to Utgard Mountain, where he hoped to gather strength.†   (source)
  • We cannot remain indifferent to the grievous blows that have afflicted so many good Dominican homes ...†   (source)
  • "My fault," he said, "my own fault, my most grievous fault.†   (source)
  • In one myth, Kirta, a human king, is made grievously ill by Asherah.†   (source)
  • Followed by a child of three who had fallen down a well, sustained grievous head injuries, and been brought to Riverview in a coma.†   (source)
  • She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life.†   (source)
  • Women have suffered grievously in the genocides of Rwanda and Darfur.†   (source)
  • Sister Anjali suffered grievously, her skin burning to the touch.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of my numerous relatives, most of whom I had always considered a grievous burden, but if there hadn't been one that I loved, I wouldn't have landed myself in the king's prison.†   (source)
  • At thirty dollars a month he considered himself grievously underpaid.†   (source)
  • At Boston, he and William Howe had been continuously at odds, and he had failed most grievously (in his mind) to convince Howe to seize Dorchester Heights before the rebels did.†   (source)
  • Not a runaway, a dropout, the grievously weak man who takes a powder.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart took the cigarette holder out of his mouth, stood it on end inside the pocket of his shirt, and began gnawing on the fingernails of both hands grievously.†   (source)
  • but to harbor a Spirit Perilous is a grievous thing for one so young.†   (source)
  • He was grievously wounded and suffered brain damage.†   (source)
  • One of the sentences—for a crime which involved grievous bodily harm—put him away for eighteen months.†   (source)
  • It would be a grievous blow to the world, if the Dark Power overcame the Shire; if all your kind, jolly, stupid Bolgers, Hornblowers, Boffins, Bracegirdles, and the rest, not to mention the ridiculous Bagginses, became enslaved.†   (source)
  • The late events in this place, and his own grievous loss, have left him exhausted and quite unequal to shouldering the burdens of the parish at this time.†   (source)
  • With rough terrain stalling the tanks some seventy-five yards to the rear, the twenty-year-old Floridian saw that his riddled unit was grievously exposed once again.†   (source)
  • This case represents, my dear Mr. Emerson, one of the rare, delicate instances in which one for whom we held great expectations has gone grievously astray, and who in his fall threatens to upset certain delicate relationships between certain interested individuals and the school.†   (source)
  • During this time I experienced another grievous loss.†   (source)
  • I'm reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously.†   (source)
  • On occasion, along a stretch of less than a kilometer, five thousand men might go over the top, and within a few minutes suffer a thousand instantly dead, a thousand wounded who would die slowly on the ground, a thousand grievously wounded, a thousand lightly wounded, and a thousand who were physically untouched but spiritually shattered for the rest of their lives, which, in some cases, was merely a matter of weeks.†   (source)
  • Yet as the irrefutable and sapient Tisroc has said it is very grievous to be constrained to keep our hands off such a dainty dish as Narnia.†   (source)
  • He had a sickening feeling that the terrible king would survive even the last grievous wounds, and he was determined to finish the job.†   (source)
  • But right now the would-be assassins feel that they are the only ones who can right the grievous wrong.†   (source)
  • He wished to show us a possible emergency maneuver in the field, in instances of the most grievous trauma.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was certain of only one thing: the painting's wounds, while grievous, were not fatal.†   (source)
  • Many of the boys who suffered most grievously would turn into the cruelest guidon corporals, the most sadistic platoon leaders.†   (source)
  • By noon, I had a bad case of eyestrain and a worse one of cramps, and I had almost concluded that my hypothesis of the previous day was grievously at fault and that the "den" was just a fortuitous hole in the sand.†   (source)
  • Second, and almost more grievous, his discrimination against himself; his contempt for the blackness that he associates with his suffering; his willingness to sabotage his fellow Negroes because they are part of the blackness he has found so painful.†   (source)
  • But the Professor had grievously miscalculated in still another way.†   (source)
  • So let us be thankful that Her body has built into it this harmless safety valve, else we would all suffer grievously before somebody managed to kill Her.†   (source)
  • Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.†   (source)
  • In fact he was in grievous danger of coming under the dragon-spell.   (source)
    grievous = terrible
  • But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up.   (source)
    grievous = very bad
  • "Winter and snow will bite both men and elves," he said, "and they may find their dwelling in the Waste grievous to bear."   (source)
    grievous = terrible
  • Victory had been assured before the fall of night, but the pursuit was still on foot, when Bilbo returned to the camp; and not many were in the valley save the more grievously wounded.   (source)
    grievously = badly (seriously)
  • We did not break down, but adapted ourselves; our twenty years, which made many another thing so grievous, helped us in this.   (source)
    grievous = terrible
  • This ....this is a grievous wound; it saps my strength.†   (source)
  • Lord Stark, I was grievous sad to hear about your troubles on the kingsroad.†   (source)
  • I was grievous sad to hear about your son.†   (source)
  • "That was a grievous error, Lord Snow," he said at last in the acid tones of an enemy.†   (source)
  • Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.†   (source)
  • "The little birds sing a grievous song today," he said as he seated himself.†   (source)
  • It gave me no joy to bring this grievous news to council.†   (source)
  • "We have suffered a grievous defeat, no matter that we exterminated the soldiers," Nasuada murmured.†   (source)
  • His mother's uncontrolled responses, her "scolds, rages," were a grievous flaw, he felt.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.†   (source)
  • My fault, my fault, my own most grievous fault.†   (source)
  • Their belief is that by grievous self-punishment they can allay God's wrath.†   (source)
  • They carried him inside the castle after the battle, but his wounds are grievous.†   (source)
  • Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous as the treason of Isengard.†   (source)
  • "Is it grievous, my lord?" asked Clydas.†   (source)
  • A grievous wound, aye, —but Thoros healed it.†   (source)
  • A grievous thing when a great man grows old.†   (source)
  • "It is very grievous," said the Tisroc in his deep, quiet voice.†   (source)
  • It was a grievous wound, but perhaps only one of Cooper's blades had been poisoned.†   (source)
  • Willit was borne in on a litter, so grievous were his wounds.†   (source)
  • If he had come at us there, he would have paid a grievous price.†   (source)
  • My grandsire made the same grievous mistake.†   (source)
  • Osney has proved a grievous disappointment.†   (source)
  • Those thrusts too were turned aside, at grievous cost to our foes.†   (source)
  • I suffered grievous losses on the Green Fork, and Glover and Tallhart worse at Duskendale.†   (source)
  • That was my mistake, and it has proved a grievous one.†   (source)
  • There are other charges laid against Your Grace, crimes far more grievous than simple fornications.†   (source)
  • His punishment was grievous, but he has learned from his mistake.†   (source)
  • You have done House Frey a grievous insult, Robb.†   (source)
  • But the nature of the crime is grievous enough to require your expulsion.†   (source)
  • But Aragorn came to Eowyn, and he said: 'Here there is a grievous hurt and a heavy blow.†   (source)
  • 'Tis a most grievous affliction of the skin, young master, that will leave you pockmarked and more gruesome even than you are now —' 'Watch who you're calling gruesome!' said Ron, his ears turning red.†   (source)
  • He is bound to find a way in, you know, and anyone who has tried to delay him will be in the most grievous peril—†   (source)
  • The typhoon was unquestionable; it had been real and would have posed a grievous threat to any small vessel caught in its bellows.†   (source)
  • The pain is ...constant, and grievous.†   (source)
  • I won't lie to you, it's grievous news.†   (source)
  • We will show that the prosecutor's assertions are flawed and that my client has been subjected to grievous violations of her civil rights.†   (source)
  • It is grievous sad.†   (source)
  • But Durza gave Eragon a grievous wound across his back, and Eragon suffered terrible pain because of it, despite the spells of the Varden's healers.†   (source)
  • 'It is tidings more grievous than any in this land can understand, though it may touch them sorely ere the year is much older,' said Aragorn.†   (source)
  • Robert Leader, after recovering from his grievous wounds and the long day lying helpless under fire on the Iwo beach, reentered college and eventually became a professor of fine arts at Notre Dame.†   (source)
  • 'This is grievous news concerning Saruman,' he said; 'for we trusted him and he is deep in all our counsels.†   (source)
  • To Montresor there was no question that Howe should have pressed the attack and that to have failed to do so was a grievous mistake.†   (source)
  • The fifth charge, the most serious, had sent him to prison for a year: it was for grievous bodily harm when, several years ago, he had gone berserk in a bar in Stockholm.†   (source)
  • Their separation was more grievous than any, for as she confided discreetly "circumstances" conspired.†   (source)
  • Grievous is the fall of your men; but you shall see that at least the wolves of the mountains do not devour them.†   (source)
  • For Easy Company, it had been a day of grievous loss and historic valor: For its day's work, the badly decimated unit would receive a Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, two Silver Stars, and a number of Purple Hearts—one of the most decorated engagements in the history of the United States Marine Corps.†   (source)
  • The Mompellions reeled from one grievous scene to the next; while the rector prayed with the dying, wrote out their wills and consoled where he could, I helped Mrs. Mompellion with the tending and feeding and finding of kinfolk willing to care for the newly orphaned or soon-to-be so—no easy matter, especially if the child was already sick.†   (source)
  • The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane, seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails...The [Tory] enemies of our present struggle ....are grown even scurrilous to individuals, and treat all characters who differ from them with the most opprobrious language.†   (source)
  • If there was a grievous flaw in how things were being run, it was the "stupid parsimony" of the Congress.†   (source)
  • These are evil tidings,' said Celeborn, 'the most evil that have been spoken here in long years full of grievous deeds.†   (source)
  • 'Grievous is our loss,' said Legolas.†   (source)
  • This is a grievous turn to things!†   (source)
  • So grievous sad.†   (source)
  • There were nights when Jon Snow wondered if he had not made a grievous mistake by preventing Stannis from marching all the wildlings off to be slaughtered.†   (source)
  • If Loras took the castle, Stannis would suffer a grievous blow, and the Redwyne fleet could sail off to meet the ironmen.†   (source)
  • You are grievous hurt.†   (source)
  • She is Cersei of House Lannister, queen dowager, mother to His Grace King Tommen, widow of His Grace King Robert, and she has committed grievous falsehoods and fornication.†   (source)
  • That was a grievous error.†   (source)
  • Grievous enough.†   (source)
  • That makes me grievous sad.†   (source)
  • These are grievous times.†   (source)
  • A grievous oversight.†   (source)
  • Pride is a grievous sin.†   (source)
  • He cheered up a little later on, but it was a grievous parting oo both sides and I will not dwell on it.†   (source)
  • Nothing is more grievous to us than the idea of desecration of holy objects and we shall endeavor to take every means at our command to ensure the return of your precious candelabra.†   (source)
  • And it involved two grievous, mutually unpardonable mistakes, each embedded in a cultural overview which was separated from the other as Saskatoon is from Patagonia.†   (source)
  • Then it seemed to Gimli and Legolas who were nearby that she wept, and in one so stern and proud that seemed the more grievous.†   (source)
  • He had said farewell to Eowyn above in the Hold, and the memory was grievous; but now he turned his mind to the road that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • 'All are weary, and very many have wounds light or grievous,' said Eomer, 'and we have suffered much loss of our horses, and that is ill to bear.†   (source)
  • But Arod, the horse of Rohan, refused the way, and he stood sweating and trembling in a fear that was grievous to see.†   (source)
  • I have seen a sight upon the field that is very grievous to my heart, and greater sorrow may yet come to pass.†   (source)
  • He has well repaid my trust; for if Elrond had not yielded to me, neither of you would have set out; and then far more grievous would the evils of this day have been.†   (source)
  • Even so things might have gone far otherwise, if Gollum himself had remained unchanged; but whatever dreadful paths, lonely and hungry and waterless, he had trodden, driven by a devouring desire and a terrible fear, they had left grievous marks on him.†   (source)
  • 'That is grievous,' she said.†   (source)
  • "Everybody loves a wedding," said Joe, grievously miscalculating the tolerance of his neighbors.†   (source)
  • Some were grievously wounded, helped along or even carried by their comrades.†   (source)
  • That night, he erred, and erred grievously, and grievously indeed did he pay for it.†   (source)
  • I have sinned most grievously, this is my atonement.†   (source)
  • And we know that Oberyn wounded Gregor grievously.†   (source)
  • For the companies were grievously reduced.†   (source)
  • Ralph Dugan had gone back to helping the lame, the halt, and the blind at Arapahoe County Hospital; presumably Annie went back to that time-honored nurse's job of giving aid and comfort to the grievously wounded.†   (source)
  • When they brought him to us, grievously wounded and near death, Roose Bolton urged us to cut his throat, but your brother said, 'I will not kill a man for loyalty, nor for fighting well,' and sent his own maester to tend Ser Barristan's wounds.†   (source)
  • The Watch is grievously under strength.†   (source)
  • The Sunderlands dragged the Sisters into two of the Blackfyre Rebellions, and we all suffered grievously for that.†   (source)
  • 72 Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.†   (source)
  • More than half of all the men of Ten-Towns lay dead, and many more would later die, for nearly half of those still alive had been grievously wounded.†   (source)
  • The morphine Syrettes—small tubes with a needle on one end and a dispenser on the other—contained a quarter grain of morphine to be injected into a grievously injured Marine to dull unbearable pain.†   (source)
  • The Federalist press declared the United States had been grievously insulted by France; the Republican press affirmed American friendship with the French and, while expressing the hope that the President would remain true to his inaugural pledge to seek peace, reported that a "certain ex-Secretary" (Hamilton) was secretly preaching war to further his political ambitions.†   (source)
  • Oh, grievously have I sinned.†   (source)
  • And Ser Loras was young, prone to all the rash judgments of youth, and had been grievously wounded storming the castle besides.†   (source)
  • I have sinned most grievously.†   (source)
  • Later I would learn that many of the same boys who suffered most grievously in the plebe system became the most brutal and sadistic of upperclassmen.†   (source)
  • Heavyweights can harm each other grievously and permanently, and that was what was always so fearful about strong and well-shaped men locked in mortal combat.†   (source)
  • As we listened to the testimony of the OG, I placed my right hand on Pig's shoulder and squeezed it, as we endured the flat, monotonous testimony, which damaged Pig grievously with its assuredness and its utter simplicity.†   (source)
  • Now at last they passed into the high circles of the City, and in the light of morning they went their way towards the Houses of Healing; and these were fair houses set apart, for the care of those who were grievously sick, but now they were prepared for the tending of men hurt in battle or dying.†   (source)
  • And knowing this, something in each of them turned away in grievous shame.†   (source)
  • To his grievous disappointment, they were proud of it.†   (source)
  • We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.†   (source)
  • It was my fault, my fault, my grievous fault.†   (source)
  • Never had the clinging to mere life seemed so grievous as now.†   (source)
  • Facts of which Guenever was subconscious, in this sense, included the whole of the Arthur-Lancelot situation, most of the future tragedy at court, and the grievous fact of her own childlessness—which was never to be remedied.†   (source)
  • The Russian —dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place.†   (source)
  • Then the loan from Einhorn wasn't too grievous either, since Einhorn himself had let lots of people down for far larger amounts; and he, Einhorn, was big enough and gentleman enough not to scream and moan about it.†   (source)
  • The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place.†   (source)
  • Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to his employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which he allows to religious duties.†   (source)
  • It would be grievous if they grew up to hate me or fear me, or to think of me as a betrayer of those things that I call our possessions.†   (source)
  • McGarrity's face fell into the old lines of grievous disappointment as he started his evening's work.†   (source)
  • Such an intent is not confined to cases where there is a definite purpose to kill; it is also present in cases where the object is to inflict grievous bodily harm, calculated to cause death regardless of whether death results or not.†   (source)
  • The importance of the Winchester tournament did not lie in any particular feat of arms, nor even in Lancelot's grievous hurt—for he eventually recovered from it Where it did touch the lives of our four friends was in a circumstance which remains to be told.†   (source)
  • Are we to suppose that in this small room, where in this short and tragic space of time an innocent black man is cruelly struck down and an innocent white man is shot dead, that there was no intention to inflict grievous bodily harm of this kind should the terrible need for it arise?†   (source)
  • As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed, but not dangerous.†   (source)
  • At the words MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT he ceased, breathless.†   (source)
  • He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Holmes—a grievous disappointment.†   (source)
  • So grievous did he think it that he could never possess the secret right to taunt truly in answer.†   (source)
  • That danger dissolved, the next necessity became the grievous thing.†   (source)
  • But more things, and most grievous ones, were happening with equal suddenness.†   (source)
  • Not, however, before her regular demand for her allowance became a grievous thing.†   (source)
  • I left your mother in grievous trouble.'†   (source)
  • It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess.†   (source)
  • Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities.†   (source)
  • "Is life grievous to you?" interrupted the scout.†   (source)
  • Mine's a grievous case, an' I want — if yo will be so good — t' know the law that helps me.'†   (source)
  • Yes, yes; the Sergeant has fallen into a grievous error.†   (source)
  • 'Tis cruel work, I'll allow; but for them it's lawful work; while for us, it would be grievous work.†   (source)
  • "Ah, my dear," said he, "poor Miss Taylor—It is a grievous business."†   (source)
  • Sometimes thou, too, goest stumbling, because the way is rough and stony and the burden grievous.†   (source)
  • Of what crime have I been guilty, that so grievous a punishment should await the offence?†   (source)
  • On pitching camp he made the grievous discovery that the water-bag had leaked or the water had evaporated, for there was only enough left for one more day.†   (source)
  • He once recited three thousand verses without stopping; but the strain upon his mental faculties was too great, and he was little better than an idiot from that day forth—a grievous misfortune for the school, for on great occasions, before company, the superintendent (as Tom expressed it) had always made this boy come out and "spread himself."†   (source)
  • Debienne and Poligny, describes the incident as follows: "A grievous accident spoiled the little party which MM.†   (source)
  • I repeat I dare say I have committed many a grievous sin in my day; but I cannot help always looking back upon this as the worst action I have ever perpetrated.†   (source)
  • "I preferred," Hans Castorp began after another pause, "to tell you the truth even at the risk of losing your favor, which, to be frank, would have been a grievous loss for me—a blow, I can tell you, a real blow, that could only be compared to the blow I took when Frau Chauchat reappeared here, and not alone, but as your traveling companion.†   (source)
  • It was rather a darkening of the spirit which fell back upon itself, to find a more grievous darkness within.†   (source)
  • Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love.†   (source)
  • Madeline smiled her amusement and expressed a belief that Stillwell wanted too much in such short time from a man who had done body and mind a grievous injury.†   (source)
  • Years ago the lord of the manor planted certain fruit trees on our farm; in the best part of it, too—a grievous wrong and shame—†   (source)
  • Yet in nowise
    That wretch of the grooms any solace hath got him,
    Nor longer will live the loathly deed-doer,
    Beswinked with sins; for the sore hath him now
    In the grip of need grievous, in strait hold togather'd
    With bonds that be baleful: there shall he abide,
    That wight dyed with all evil-deeds, the doom mickle,
    For what wise to him the bright Maker will write it.†   (source)
  • If all is over (as Major Callendar implied), well, all is over, and nothing can be done, but they retained some responsibility in her grievous wrong that they couldn't define.†   (source)
  • A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant sight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the sponge.†   (source)
  • Unto all the Danes was it,
    To the friends of the Scyldings, most grievous in mood
    To many of thanes such a thing to be tholing,
    Sore evil to each one of earls, for of Aeschere 1420
    The head did they find e'en there on the holm-cliff;
    The flood with gore welled (the folk looking on it),
    With hot blood.†   (source)
  • What with holding the reins as best she could, and constant heed to brake and distance, and worry lest she would damage a wheel, she was in grievous straits most of that day.†   (source)
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