Meanings of grim spectre in English

This means that starvation is the grim spectre in six thousand homes.

Like some grim spectre he rose up, towering above the little Dutchman.

But it was over at last, and the grim spectre stalked once more.

How bravely they met the grim spectre which crept so insidiously into their homes!

The alternative is an appalling financial vista: the grim spectre of national insolvency within weeks.

But for Jacques Baby, the grim spectre Starvation would have stalked through the little fortress.

A grim spectre was slowly taking its place.

Like that grim spectre we call death, thou knockest impartially at the palace portal and at the cottage door.

Here, at last, he seemed to have got rid of the grim spectre which, for two months, had constantly haunted him.

Again the curtains were thrust aside, and the Countess of Argyll uttered a gasp of sudden fear at the grim spectre she beheld there.

The grim spectre of want and privation treads softly behind every mortal there, and there is none who treats its invisible presence with disdain.

The thought racked her, and now, as always, she tried to put it from her, but it continued, persistently haunting her like a grim spectre.

If he "crashed" over there, it was something to have banished the grim spectre of want from these two who were old and helpless.

They say it is full of grim spectres, and I am so timid!

The black bat and the darting nighthawk were a-wing, grim spectres of the dusk.

Can you let him ride forth alone, accompanied only by the grim spectres of unfaith and of despair?