But even in the third year of the dreadful affliction, farmers whose lives were being slowly blown away were able to make grisly jokes.

The fourth one was simply Dad-till I made her stop the grisly joke and call them One through Four instead.

She remembered an old, old grisly joke: A tactical nuclear weapon is one that explodes a thousand kilometers downwind of you.

What if this were some grisly practical joke of bored fairies?

This business about Yale was a grisly joke.

He made a grisly little joke: "Let's show The Shadow what's cooking!"

For a moment the Radisha thought it was some grisly joke.

Rufe had not really taken part in the grisly joke, and now, unable to stand any more of it, he put a comforting paw around Benjy.

It was a grisly joke, a Shadowland joke.

It was a grisly joke, because the man had been an atheist of the most vehement sort a fact we both knew.