Word: grievously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak, however, when the glass front of a wall clock directly above jarred loose. Miraculous was the Pope's escape with only a small cut on one hand. Had not the clock's iron hands deflected the falling glass, injuries to His Holiness might have been grievous...
...locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such...
...relation is platonic, but when, overborne with passion, she comes to give herself to him, he is disgusted and dismayed, shows her as gently as possible her mistake. "In after years ... he learnt that she spoke of him with evident animosity as of one who had done her a grievous wrong...