The emptiness and disarray of the little room, flooded by the sunbeams, were producing in Trent a sense of gruesomeness.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The gruesomeness of the situation became intensified.
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
There followed a scene savage and repulsive in its gruesomeness.
"Best Russian Short Stories"
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