1 Mrs. Rogers stood grotesque in her black stockings.
2 His jacket had been stained of a bright purple hue, upon which there had been some attempt to paint grotesque ornaments in different colours.
3 And the grotesque furniture interested her.
4 Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.
5 'Mrs. Bolter's humble servant,' said Fagin, bowing with grotesque politeness.
6 Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 7 So grotesque was the attitude that I could not for the instant realize that that moan had been the passing of his soul.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 8 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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 9 It seems to me to be rather grotesque than otherwise.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 10 The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 11 Holmes bent over this grotesque frieze for some minutes, and then suddenly sprang to his feet with an exclamation of surprise and dismay.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 12 I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 13 "They are singular, not to say grotesque," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 14 Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare.
15 The contrast was too grotesque: she could scarcely suppress the smile it provoked.