...The word FIN in bones concludes the series of grotesque and uncannysketches, which but emphasize a fact ever present in the poet's mind—thatwhile we are in life we are in death...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...What but ruin and disaster could be the end of this grotesque pretension? How could it be hoped that England would ever swallow such a Perkin? And it was on his behalf...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Thefirelight glistened upon his ebon body and brought out into bold reliefthe grotesque designs painted upon his face, breasts, and abdomen...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... Had she finally been forced into a union withone of her grotesque priests? It seemed a hideous fate, indeed, forone so beautiful...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Nothing could be more absurd and grotesque than the figures who formed his court...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...The quaint secretary-bird was often to be seen stalking majestically along, solitary and grotesque, with its high marching action...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Here and there a grotesque calabash contrasted with the graceful palms towering in air for warmth and light, or bending over water like Prince of Wales's feathers...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...I could not bring myself to admire Gondebiza, the princess royal,— what is grotesque in one sex becomes unsightly in the other...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...It was almost impossible to follow the grotesque proceedings, and utterly impossible to find a gleam of interest in them...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...If the image is either hideous or grotesque, thefault will not be mine...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The Tamil conjurors teach it to dance, and in their wanderingscarry it from village to village, clad in a grotesque dress, toexhibit its lively performances...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Theirstructure and markings are almost grotesque...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...There is something very grotesque in the appearance of all the Puff birds; and their habits, in a state of nature, are no less singular...
William Swainson 「Zoological Illustrations, Volume II」
...It was driedby the air into a shriveled deformity, rendereddoubly grotesque by the beads and other articleswith which it had been decked when laid away...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...To an observer who hadknown of this, there would have been something at once rather pathetic and agood deal grotesque about Finn's present kittenish play with Jess...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...It has no equal inlively agility, grotesque somersaults, and sudden tumbles down theimpossible paths or over the impracticable obstacles to which itsobstinacy is perpetually leading it...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The grotesque larvæ live in deep holes in sand-banks...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...(Jacques Callot (1592-1635), the French engraver and painter, famous for the grotesque nature of his subjects...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
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