It is my grim duty to tell you that they did come back.

In 1979 the post traumatic stress suffered by the body recovery and identification teams was recognised, some of whom broke down under their grim duty.

Once more the slayer was reporting for grim duty.

The bombing of Serbia was "a grim duty, but as in Iraq, it must be done," it said.

Watching the news had become a sort of grim duty now, a morbid fascination.

He thought it ironic that officers training to be chaplains were exempt from the grim duty.

Samael is often confused with Satan because he often has grim and destructive duties.

Instead, it looked like his bride was going to take him out of grim duty.

Nobody ever visited their house except through obligations, and such family celebrations as still persisted had been transformed into grim duties.

Fortunately, the major was no stranger to grim duty.