There was even an etching of it - a grotesque beast with staring eyes and razor-sharp claws.

"Oh," Lessa sighed, and dropped beside the grotesque beast.

Many carry intricate designs incorporating discs, crescents, arches and horseshoes; others are alive with grotesque or naturalistic beasts and human figures.

Its face lifted toward them, and it was the face of some grotesque beast, blunt and scarred.

A Norman corbel table runs along the south exterior wall, with a variety of carved figures depicting grotesque beasts and human heads.

At the base of the stem are carvings of grotesque beasts.

It was fashioned to resemble the body of a grotesque beast, with its legs extending into claws, which clutched the wheel shafts.

The album cover was inspired by "Beauty and the Beast", with Byrne as a "Buzz Lightyear-like" beauty and Clark as a grotesque beast.

Behind him strung several more of the grotesque beasts, and then came Skor, mounted on his zorat, with the dead men that formed his retinue surrounding him.

The wings began to beat, and the grotesque beast flew above the waiting armies.