Nordhoff was grimly pleased that at least one of the villains will be made to suffer.

As you were intended to, thought Clay, grimly pleased that his desperate strategy had worked.

Captain Pritcher, assassin, was in the palace itself, and found himself grimly pleased with his psychology.

The cook's fighting mad and the housemaid was grimly pleased.

So, thought Daja, grimly pleased, you just have to know how to talk to them.

Everyone around the table looked grimly pleased.

The man leaped back with alacrity, and Matt was grimly pleased to note that there wasn't any great push to shove him forward.

At last, Will had begun to turn the control back, looking grimly pleased.

He held it out to her, grimly pleased to note that his hand did not tremble.

His own heart missed a beat, but he was grimly pleased to see how she scrambled erect and walked.