grim

He stifled, therefore, the feelings of compassion that were rising, composed his features, and sat down, grim and sombre, at his desk.

And yet those strange, peaked roofs and quaint, overhung gables were a fitting covering to grim and terrible intrigue.

At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.

Something like a reluctant smile, rather rusty from long disuse, mellowed Marilla’s grim expression.