Crossword-Solution: GRISLIER 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Slowly they wind athwart the wild, and while young Day his anthem swells, Sad falls upon my yearning ear the tinkling of the Camel-bells: O’er fiery wastes and frozen wold, o’er horrid hill and gloomy glen, The home of grisly beast and Ghoul,* the haunts of wilder, grislier men;— * The Demon of the Desert.

The bare triangular space in front of the church was once a pit where the dead of the plague were thrown, and in the sacristy is a thing of yet grislier interest.

The Residency is a fine large building in an advanced stage of decomposition; the glorious vegetation around it--cotton-trees, caoutchouc-figs, and magnificent oleanders--making the pile look grimmer and grislier.

The grislier methods of the Inquisitorial process were well-known to him by reputation, and soon he might be testing them out for himself.

Before him stands the Thing of Dread-- A giant shadow motionless and pale! As those dim Lemur-Vapours that exhale From the rank grasses rotting o'er the Dead, And startle midnight with the mocking show Of the still, shrouded bones that sleep below-- So the wan image which the Vision bore Was outlined from the air, no more Than served to make the loathing sense a bond Between the world of life, and grislier worlds beyond.