Grim Sentence Examples

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  • Brady and Elise exchanged a grim look.

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  • His mouth was grim when he spoke.

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  • If she lived, Hilden wouldn't look as grim as he did.

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  • It was a grim lot that gathered for supper that night outside the ring of firelight.

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  • Anne was a grim, sullen woman, frankly sensual, but as wellmeaning as ignorance and vindictiveness would allow her to be.

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  • His expression was grim.

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  • Her hands shook as she stood there discussing her own death with a creature that resembled the Grim Reaper.

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  • The general nodded, looking grim but not surprised.

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  • The dim light of hope in his eyes faded into grim acceptance.

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  • He sheathed his weapons, grim at the discovery.

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  • His heart almost stopped at the grim note in Kris.s voice.

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  • The whole effect of the grim castle, the silvery stream and the verdant woods makes one of the most striking scenes in Belgium.

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  • His lips spread into a grim line.

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  • T. Stepanek received a grim prognosis from doctors.

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  • She looked up at Jule, whose features were grim.

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  • Landon's grim expression was enough to tell Gabriel the route to the underworld was there.

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  • It appears that about the beginning of the 9th century Grim Kamban, a Norwegian emigrant who had left his country to escape the tyranny of Harold Haarfager, settled in the islands.

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  • Howard asked, his expression grim.

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  • All this sounds a bit grim, so to lighten the mood the main story is interspersed with other shorter stories.

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  • Marya Dmitrievna, with her spectacles hanging down on her nose and her head flung back, stood in the hall doorway looking with a stern, grim face at the new arrivals.

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  • They expect to see grim castles, evil magicians, simple peasants and noble heroes.

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  • To make the scene more grim they wore black dresses (Tertullian, De Pallio) from head to foot.

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  • The picture I have painted today may have seemed somewhat grim.

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  • His face was grim, his frame tense.

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  • Grim, she quickened her step as she debated how to manipulate her killer before the final blow fell.

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  • The guards were grim this night, their faces creased with worry.

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  • When one of the latter, Fernan Sanchez, who had behaved with gross ingratitude and treason to his father, was slain by the legitimate son Pedro, the old king recorded his grim satisfaction.

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  • After showing Steven the grim fate the men he searched for met, she offers him the same challange that she had offered the missing men...

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  • The government, however, did not venture to carry out the grim sentence which the law still applied to traitors, and introduced an act enabling it to commute the death penalty to transportation.

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  • Small wonder, then, if Adam of Bremen, and the monkish annalists who follow him, describe Sweyn as a grim and bloody semi-pagan, perpetually warring against Christian states.

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  • In comparing the Irish tales with the saga, there will be felt deep divergencies in matter, style and taste, the richness of one contrasting with the chastened simplicity of the other; the one's half-comic, half-earnest bombast is wholly unlike the other's grim humour; the marvellous, so unearthly in the one, is almost credible in the other; but in both are the keen grasp of character, the biting phrase, the love of action and the delight in blood which almost assumes the garb of a religious passion.

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  • As Siegfried approaches Worms, Kriemhild's brothers, the Burgundian kings Gunther, Giselher and Gernot watch his coming, and to them their faithful retainer, "the grim Hagen," explains who he is.

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  • The death of Siegfried is compassed, not by her, but by the "grim" Hagen, Gunther's faithful henchman, who thinks the glory of his master unduly overshadowed by that of his vassal.

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  • Deidre didn't resist, uncertain why he looked grim suddenly.

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  • Except, a week ago, all the radars of his army of grim reapers had gone haywire.

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  • Jesus goes with grim foreboding, expecting to suffer.

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  • Billy H was a great frontman, and their songs were filled with grim, gritty minutiae; proper little kitchen sink dramas.

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  • Unlike Up on the Roof, however, the story told is relentlessly grim.

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  • M off to work; I have a rather grim morning, or at least a tiring one.

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  • As an example of mispunctuation we may take Shelley's Triumph of Life, 188 sqq., "` If thou can'st, forbear To join the dance, which I had well forborne ' Said the grim Feature of my thought ` Aware I I will unfold,'" &c., for "said the grim Feature (of my thought aware) ` I will unfold.'" Grammatical Assimilations.

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  • Once that grim period was finished, the festival started up again and has continued every summer since.

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  • The grim note in Dan's voice made Brady quicken his movements.

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  • Let us consider some other statistics that make equally grim reading.

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  • After a picnic there was a grim steep climb up to an exposed ridge with clouds of fine rain swirling about.

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  • Super troopers In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.

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  • Let us start with grim warnings of doom and disaster.

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  • The ethos at work has been decidedly grim since the pay cuts were implemented.

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  • When you are staring at the specter of the grim reaper, you'll spend a lot of money to delay getting to know him better.

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  • The facts about water pollution are grim and sobering, but there's a lot that people around the world can do to improve the situation.

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  • The obvious ease of tossing your rug into the washing machine makes this kind of rug a perfect choice for the types of dirt and grim found in the kitchen.

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  • Alcoholics fear that life without drinking will be awful, grim, boring, dull, or tedious.

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  • In March of 2008, doctors handed down the veteran actor a grim diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly forms of the disease.

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  • Sacrificing their powers they created Grim Angels, supreme warriors that defeated the demons.

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  • You control Ein, one of the Grim Angels.

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  • Will the Grim Angels play a different role this time around?

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  • The Grim Reaper has a post-it with everyone's name on it and nothing short of the "Elixir of Life" will save them from Death.

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  • In the case of a child with Menkes disease, parents should seek genetic counseling, as the grim prognosis of this illness places a heavy emotional as well as economic burden on a family.

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  • Of course, you can incorporate an evil skull into a Grim Reaper tattoo.

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  • Lorne also added levity to the otherwise grim group.

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  • The Village, far from being a grim prison, is a cheerful British fin de siecle seaside resort.

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  • Both Elise and the Guardian were grim about the world outside the compound, and neither explained exactly why.

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  • His profile was smooth, but his mouth was grim.

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  • Spies in every salon in Paris and every court in Europe kept the grim courtier informed of every change in his.

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  • Protestant England took alarm at the proceedings of a queen who associated herself so closely with the doings of "the grim wolf with privy paw."

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  • But there is something forced and clumsy, in spite of the flashes of grim humour, in the machinery of the Clothes Philosophy.

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  • From all this we conclude that what is poetry to us - akin to the folk-lore of water-sprites, naiads, kelpies, river-gods and water-worship in general - was to Tertullian and to the generations of believers who fashioned the baptismal rites, ablutions and beliefs of the church, nothing less than grim reality and unquestionable fact.

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  • In only two points can Rabelais be said to be definitely polemic. He certainly hated the monkish system in the debased form in which it existed in his time; he as certainly hated the brutish ignorance into which the earlier systems of education had suffered too many of their teachers and scholars to drop. At these two things he was never tired of striking, but elsewhere, even in the grim satire of the Chats fourres, he is the satirist proper rather than the reformer.

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  • The west coast terminates at Cape Grim, opposite which are the group known by the name of Hunter's Islands.

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  • The story is full of picturesque detail and stirring incident, full also of interesting problems in folk-lore and mythology; and throughout it is dominated by the figure of the grim Hagen, who, twitted with cowardice and his advice spurned, is determined that there shall be no turning back and that they shall go through with it to the bitter end.

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  • His mouth formed a grim line and his eyes were bloodshot.

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  • It was the place, too, where Twain 's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery.

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  • The year kicked off with grim tales following the rollout of Chip & PIN, with many retailers encountering problems.

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  • Otherwise, this is a rather grim building inside; and not surprising, given the small windows and the thunderstorm outside.

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  • This aspect also adds less compatibility to the relationship as it vacillates back and forth from positive direction to grim outlook.

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  • A doctor actually says "The Prognosis is grim."

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  • Designer Tim Schafer spent over a decade at LucasArts creating games like Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle.

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  • It seemed folks just weren't interested in Mr. Pitt's take on the Grim Reaper.

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  • The Aztec calendar was based around the sun as well, and many images from these calendars include a sun with grim facial features.

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  • Simply have Grim's hood pulled back to reveal his head.

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  • Out was the grim, and in came the synthpop.

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  • She leaned forward and slapped the pad, and Elise's grim face lit up the central screen.

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  • Its hip up north " It's grim up North " became a catchphrase that many in the South still hold true.

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  • Although no comprehensive national statistics have been compiled on annual death rates due to unsafe abortions, the picture is grim.

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  • If the sanction imposed by Grim Trigger cannot deter a rational player from unilateral defection, then no cooperative strategy can do so.

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  • With a grim yet somewhat optimistic determination, DD piloted the car through the narrow lanes west of Bury.

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  • In my opinion the ideal " Similar Songs " list would be slightly edgy alternative country songs dealing with grim dark subjects.

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  • He was utterly fearless in an age of grim persecutions, more noted for candor than tact.

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  • Overall the audit of Britain's language skills is pretty grim.

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  • Samsun, the next major town heading East is, by all accounts, fairly grim.

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  • Even places that looked new and shiny when I first saw them are now looking a bit grim after a quarter century of neglect.

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  • Picking up where we left off in May, things are looking grim for the good guys.

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  • Regardless of these visits, the situation in Tibet still remains grim.

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  • Classical music requires a high degree of precision and skill before it rises above sounding grim.

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  • Anyway, the worst is now over, and I just feel grim.

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  • This is when the journey must have become rather grim for the cats.

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  • The mood seems naturally anxious but not grim, almost jovial, with people smiling.

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  • From time to time, Grim steals a fleeting kiss from my lips and a shiver of fear passes through me.

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  • McAlester penitentiary is clearly no holiday camp, and Ron's developing mental illness and physical deterioration whilst on death row makes grim reading.

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  • How grim is the outlook for tomorrow's pensioners?

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  • One of your colleagues has found a large plunger and is approaching the toilets with an expression of grim determination.

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  • It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery.

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  • I went to death forest and found the grim reaper.

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  • My smile is your grim reaper, my eyes are your hell.

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  • Exceptionally privileged, for a poor country like Pakistan, far from the fundamentalist schools which spawned the grim religiosity of the Taliban.

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  • The reason is a grim one, to do with a plastic shredder.

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  • He made a grim effort to dismiss all such suppositions.

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  • What they meant by freedom was the right to go about speaking in tongues and imposing a grim theocracy on everyone else.

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  • With this population distribution, increasing human numbers and mounting development pressures are taking a grim toll on coastal and near-shore resources.

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  • Equally striking, yet tuneful, is the doleful grim atmosphere of Two Crows which follows immediately.

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  • Along with gothic renditions of the Grim Reaper and bracelets of barbwire, you'll notice the ubiquity of Harley Davidson motifs.

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  • The bus driver and the man were quickly undressing to reveal that they were in fact a flaming red devil and a grim reaper.

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  • Huge lots of twisted metal and destroyed vehicles remain as grim testimony to the havoc unleashed on them by the allied warplanes.

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  • There is less in common than is often supposed between the buoyant energy that led Grant to Shiloh and the grim plodding determination that led him to Vicksburg and to Appomattox.

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  • There were numbers of lesser deities, such as Tlazolteotl, goddess of pleasure, worshipped by courtesans, Tezcatzoncatl, god of strong drink, whose garment in grim irony clothed - the drunkard's corpse, and Xipe, patron of the goldsmiths.

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  • The British colonist is as capable of a grim jest as the Transvaal Boer, and this action of Mr Schreiner's won for him the nickname " Ammunition Bill."

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  • And if that was n't munificent enough, he swung his weightless body over into one of the graveyard 's grim looking monumental figures.

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  • The city looked grim, covered in a mantle of soot, after the erruption of the nearby volcano.

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  • The most popular method for cleaning rugs was to hang them over a clothes line and use a rug beater tool to shake loose the dirt and grim.

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  • Makeup kits are extremely helpful for more complex looks, such as zombies and grim reapers.

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  • This doesn't mean you cannot cavort around in a black-based sundress, but generally you don't want your appearance to look stiff and grim if you opt for darker colors.

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  • She only said that it was a grim childhood injury, and that her parents didn't like her to talk about it.

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  • The Black Dog is often known as Black Shuck, Wisht Hound, Guytrash, Shriker, Barguest, or Grim.

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  • A daily affirmation that life is good can help put grim situations in better perspective.

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  • Some unique designs found on the site include Black Flame Skull, Barbwire, Rebel Flag Wolf, Red Skull and Crossbones, Grim Reaper with Flames, Born a Biker/ Raised a Biker and Bring Them Home, POW.

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  • His narration, sometimes grim and sometimes raging, is a gritty contrast to the real satisfaction you feel after clearing Germans out of a town, or blasting away obstacles so your reinforcements can land safely.

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  • Purchase the Grim Reaper for $8000 in the character unlock shop.

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  • First you need to unlock the Grim Ripper.

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  • Assuming that the Grim Ripper is unlocked, select him in Career mode and then exit.

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  • At this point when you go back to Career Mode, the Grim Ripper will have the Gibson Les Paul Guitar.

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  • It is worth noting that George Orwell's 1984 predicted a fairly grim 1984.

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  • Totalitarian control, thought police, grim, humorless masses - if Orwell had anticipated computers, he could have invented cyberpunk.

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  • Alcatraz's grim reputation and mystique began in 1861 with the onset of the U.S. Civil War.

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  • The Watcher's grim words stopped his retort.

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  • He cast out the spirit of negation, and henceforth the temper of his misery was changed to one, not of " whining," but of " indignation and grim fire-eyed defiance."

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  • She'd been seen by a doctor who'd been dead twenty years, was babysitting a four-hundred-thousand-year-old angel, and the grim reaper spent the night on her couch.

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