It suggests a wavelet in a muddy shallow Grimily contorting itself because it had its birth out in the great ocean.
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp
His berth was a snatched corner of the bare deck, where heaps of earth's failures, of all races and creeds and colors, Grimily picturesque, slept in their clothes upon such bedding as they had brought with them.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill
Dreading the moment when the inexorable stoker, Grimily lurking behind the glittering rococo-work, should decide that this set of riders had had their pennyworth, and bring the whole concern of steam-engine, horses, mirrors, trumpets, drums, cymbals, and such-like to pause and silence, he waited for her every reappearance, glancing indifferently over the intervening forms, including the two plainer girls, the old woman and child, the two youngsters, the newly-married couple, the old man with a clay pipe, the sparkish youth with a ring, the young ladies in the chariot, the pair of journeyman-carpenters, and others, till his select country beauty followed on again in her place.
"Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters"
Thomas Hardy