"I really don't intend to meet a gruesome end for 5000."

But the book is almost self-censoring: only the cleverest child would be able to follow the story to its gruesome end.

"A gruesome end," said the captain, "to be sure."

It was a challenge then, to the gruesome end.

Danica had found no time before this to consider where the young scholar might be and she feared that he had met a gruesome end.

As word spread about Lathea's ordeal and gruesome end, the gossip would heat to a fever pitch.

Here he came to a gruesome end.

Drizzt had to work quickly; the battle was almost at its gruesome end.

Bates was the last to ascend the scaffold that day, and met a similarly gruesome end.

The killings, which took place on Jan. 22 of last year, were a gruesome end for a highly respected man and his sons.