The grim shadow of the impending Holocaust abroad presages, it turns out, a smaller-scale disaster closer to home.

He greeted me with some constraint; we had once been friends, but the past lay between us, with its grim shadow of blood.

The influence of Mao and the grim shadow of the Cultural Revolution had begun to lift.

He spoke it aloud: "No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge."

Then is the fact established that huge forests once cast their grim shadows over this remote section.

She supposed he had already entered the back country of Darwinia, a place even stranger than this grim shadow of London.

The buildings cast grim shadows and were coated with grime dark as dried blood.

Constantly their eyes were turned fearfully toward those two grim shadows that loped so silently upon their flank.

The horses and their riders were out of sight, and a stray cloud moved across the Sun's face, casting a grim shadow over the grounds.

--or but the wandering, grim shadows of some long past crime?