Most of the inmates of the grim castle of Nimmr were inclined pleasantly toward the newcomer.

A grim and solid castle was required.

Onstage Macbeth's grim castle slowly emerged against a starless sky.

As Norman of Torn rode back to his grim castle in the hills of Derby, he had much food for thought upon the way.

With an ear-piercing shriek that rang through the grim old castle, Leopold of Lutha flung his arms above his head and lunged forward upon his face.

The grim red castle clung to the rocks, halfway up the mountain and gave Mogodore a splendid view of the whole valley beneath.

The late afternoon sun made the grim old castle a dark silhouette and fell upon the countless thousands of people who covered the flanks of the hill.

The grim castle seemed to return his gaze with its own baleful glare.

He did not like the Black Adept, and by mutual consent they spelled rapidly past the grim castle and well on toward the Purple Mountains.

But it was Matsue, dominated by its "grim castle, grotesquely peaked," as he described it, that provided a perfect setting for his celebrated retellings of Japanese ghost stories.