Grame

Here is a personal anecdote from this past Saturday in Germany - coming home on the train with my daughter, a group of university age students were going to a local lake, and playing a quiz grame. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think when I read the second book I was in the wrong grame of mind and it was a struggle. ❋ Orannia (2009)

Sharrkan came up with his comrades, and found them awaiting his arrival, on coals of flame, expecting him in anxious grame, so he turned to them and said, Feel no fear since Allah protecteth us. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame and my tears a torrent became mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, ❋ Unknown (2006)

So I entered and found myself in a chamber strewn with sweet-scented herbs and with a curtain drawn across one corner, from behind which came a sound of groaning and grame, weak as from an emaciated frame. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He answered, “Hearken to my answer; that I lie not aught: and may the high gallows and all things of grame have me, if I lie one word!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

A child in Vietnam also hide himself in the rest room to play the "brick grame", which was commonly played long ago! ❋ JDsg (2005)

Ye can stop as ye are, little lay mothers, and wait in wish and wish in vain till the grame reaper draws nigh, with the sickle of the sickles, as a blessing in disguise. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Gawaine, thou avauntest thee greatly and speakest proud words, I counsel thee for all thy boast that thou make thee ready, and take thy gear to thee, tofore greater grame fall to thee. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If I, to outward vision, be as If I, to eyes of men be that and it appears and eke in body, for only that they see, and this despite of fate, e'en that my body show itself so full which thou dost see. of grief and grame. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For norþ beoþ þe peutes {;}   swiþe ohte cnihtes. þat ofte doþ me same {;}   and þar {} vore ich habbe grame. ❋ Joseph Hall (N/A)

Then said Gawaine, thou avauntest thee greatly and speakest proud words, I counsel thee for all thy boast that thou make thee ready, and take thy gear to thee, to-fore greater grame fall to thee. ❋ Unknown (1903)

[14] Some such word as _grame_, or _grimme_, seems needed for the alliteration. ❋ Anonymous (1878)

He answered, "Hearken to my answer; that I lie not aught: and may the high gallows and all things of grame have me, if I lie one word!" ❋ Anonymous (1873)

"Well, it shall be risked this time," said Frithiof; "and withal, more to me is Ingibiorg's grace than Baldur's grame." ❋ Anonymous (1865)

Yet shall such grame and grief entail no shame; * All annals teach us one thing and the same ❋ Anonymous (1855)

* Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame * and my tears a torrent became * mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame * and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

In AA last weekend for the NWern game, many of the seniors were glassy-eyed taking about that game being the LAST home game they would be there for (and I do mean glassy-eyed -- I was talknig to them at a pre-grame fraternity party). ❋ Unknown (2008)