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Definition of Grued
1. grue [v] - See also: grue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grued
Literary usage of Grued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"A housewife speaking of the dirty state of a room will declare it is " grued
up " (or even that s/n- is so); a dirty person may be said to be ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... and when I felt mysel' enveloped in the hauns, paws, fins, scales, tail, and
maw o' the mermaid o' a monster, I grued till the verra roof o' the cave ..."
3. The Bookman (1898)
"I grued more at the sound of the soughing than at the sight of the hanged fellows,
for I've seen the Fell Sergeant in too many ugly fashions to be much put ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... scales, tail, and maw o' the Mermaid o' a monster, I grued till the verra roof
o' tho cave let down drap, drap, drap upon us—me and the Mermaid—and I ..."
5. John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro (1898)
"I grued more at the sound of the soughing than at the sight of the hanged fellows,
for I've seen the Fell Sergeant in too many ugly fashions to be much put ..."
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