IT was a grotesque scene: men engaged in listing recovered funds while the corpses of three dead crooks still lay upon the floor.

In half a minute, he had eased the door a trifle inward and was viewing a grotesque scene.

The road, with soldiers stationed every few miles to preserve order, provides sometimes grotesque scenes of misery.

The whole scene, grotesque and unreal, became a silent tableau.

Horrendous murals de- picted grotesque scenes of lust and torture.

Here, above a metal doorway, were lights that illuminated the grotesque scene.

His eyes seemed to catch mere snatches of the grotesque scene before him.

Touchingly, he muses about how he will describe this grotesque scene to his future children.

Killeen opened his mouth to say something and suddenly saw in his mind's eye the grotesque scenes in the mechplex.

He was standing where I left him, his eyes still fixed on the grotesque scenes in his mind.