Every day during the Prohibition years the newspapers published their grim toll of people blinded or killed by wood alcohol.

The crime bill's combination of policing, punishment and prevention will give us the tools we need to help reduce this grim toll.

He'd been born into a world without death, and the grim toll of life on Sorrow had never seemed normal to him.

And it was taking a grim toll.

But despite these efforts hunger, malnutrition, disease and exposure are taking their grim toll.

The fierce exertion had taken grim toll of The Shadow's waning strength.

The knowledge of death and damnation was taking its grim toll; her face was pale, and the lines on it were etched more deeply.

The extreme nervous tension, fear, hunger, and thirst took their grim toll.

And none of this covers the war's grimmest toll: 250,000 people killed, more than 200,000 wounded and 13,000 permanently disabled.

The end might now be in sight, but the Eiger had exacted a grim toll for the right of passage.