For all his outer grotesquery, the noble simplicity of the verse matched some veiled and hitherto but half-expressed quality within him, and dignified him.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
The blending, or rather the juxtaposition, of extremes-a face, a form immediately witching, and a costume odd to grotesquery-had made an assault upon his comprehension at once so sudden and so direct that his dignity came near being disastrously broken up.
"Alice of Old Vincennes"
Maurice Thompson
In the fleeting glimpse he caught of it, Smoke wondered if he had ever seen a Dore grotesquery to compare.
"Smoke Bellew"
Jack London