Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimnesses
Literary usage of Grimnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"of light and air and view, with the effusions and vociferations and grimnesses
round him, the sights and sounds of the quasi-barbaric life that have the ..."
2. The Challenge of Facts: And Other Essays by William Graham Sumner (1914)
"... had not grappled with the grimnesses of thought, could thus, apparently without
conscious effort, have compelled our intellectual homage. ..."
3. Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes by Henry James (1914)
"... in all the beauty of light and air and view, with the effusions and vociferations
and grimnesses round him, the sights and sounds of the quasi-barbaric ..."
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