"I am glad to have been of service," said the other, looking his grimmest.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
"After all, this is the single man's country, and-we-know that it demands from him the best that he was given, from the grimmest toil of his body to the keenest effort of his brain.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The weather fought for the enemy again and again on the days of our attacks, and the horrors of the mud and bogs in this great desolation of crater-land miles deep-eight miles deep-over a wide sweep of country, belongs to the grimmest remembrances of every soldier who has fought in this battle of Flanders.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs