He recognised her, stared fixedly, and nodded with his grotesque and ambiguous grin.
His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
So grotesque was the attitude that I could not for the instant realise that that moan had been the passing of his soul.
The most grotesque shadow of Peg flickered over the wall behind her.
He told how his vessel had been run down by a steamer; how he had been boarded by Malay pirates; how his ship had caught fire; how he helped a political prisoner escape from a South African republic; how he had been wrecked one fall on the Magdalens and stranded there for the winter; how a tiger had broken loose on board ship; how his crew had mutinied and marooned him on a barren island—these and many other tales, tragic or humorous or grotesque, did Captain Jim relate.
Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date "1500," and the name "Hareton Earnshaw.
Here and there were a few grotesque blackened and branchless stumps.
This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
He seemed to see his fellow-creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.
The saddest thing about them was that they were grotesque, and the more pathetic they were, the more you wanted to laugh.
It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
Scrap's fears that she would grab seemed grotesque in retrospect.
Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne's hair at that moment.
He kept up this grotesque foolishness for some time; but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside and saw that the little girl was wending her way toward the house.
The moonlight is streaming down through the foliage, casting bushy shadows on the ground from high above, dark and checkered, as grotesque as a party of spectres; whereas the benign figures of the drooping willows, here and there, look like paintings on the lotus leaves.
The crowd gaped, for it was a grotesque sight to see this little man ranting away just as if hewere addressing his followers.
Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector from France, called the work "grotesque and amazing at the same time".
The worst of it was my mouth, a grotesque blob of purple and red, all bruise and stitches.
This is a grotesque picture.
It was grotesque.
