Grim example sentences

” Sophie's father was scooping shepherd's pie into his mouth as hard as he could go, his plump face still grimy and sweat — marked from the day.In the winter of 1917, conditions in the capital, Petrograd, were grim.As the temple gained in importance as a centre of pilgrimage, its authority in social and political matters also increased.The brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in the German city of Hanau in 1785 and 1786 respectively.Pilgrims who flocked to the temples also made donations.Near Ajmer is a lake, Pushkar, which has attracted pilgrims from ancient times.We have diaries of people, accounts of pilgrims and travellers, autobiographies of important personalities, and popular booklets that were sold in the local bazaars.Surat has also been called the gate to Mecca because many pilgrim ships set sail from here.His novel Hard Times (1854) describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same.Pilgrimage centres also slowly developed into townships.* * * On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to watch United.The tomb or dargah of a Sufi saint became a place of pilgrimage to which thousands of people of all faiths thronged.Emile Zola's Germinal (1885) on the life of a young miner in France explores in harsh detail the grim conditions of miners' lives.Railways also make it possible to conduct multifarious activities like business, sightseeing, pilgrimage along with transportation of goods over longer distances.The Grimm brothers also saw French domination as a threat to German culture, and believed that the folktales they had collected were expressions of a pure and authentic German spirit.