In the end, nothing of his experience aboard the Enterprise had prepared him for this grim work.

Some were pierced by arrows and fell, but others continued the grim work.

One team from the agency will remain to assist local firefighters as they wind down their grim work.

He set the glass down and began to think again of the grim work before him.

Now he was glad to be back and to have a whole week of respite before the grim work began again.

The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile.

It's grim work but, if you can get past the blood, not particularly difficult.

It sounded like grim work, but the money they mentioned was good.

But it came to be grim work, waiting, and endlessly hoping.

It was slow, grim work and only the desperate urge for knowledge of himself drove him on.