Greal

In popular speech it is also called "greal" because it is pleasant ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Hurst makes Kennedy's early parliamentary career sound a greal more interesting that it actually was - I say that as a compliment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

Instead of “san greal”—holy grail—it should have been “sang réal”—blood royal.35Butwhose bloodline was it? ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

Which fart the king kept religiously, like another sanc-greal, and performed a world of wonderful cures with it in many dangerous diseases, letting loose and distributing to the patient only as much of it as might frame a virginal fart; which is, if you must know, what our sanctimonials, alias nuns, in their dialect call ringing backwards. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Pantagruel asking to what purpose and curative indication he had voided so much mustard on the earth, the queen replied that mustard was their sanc-greal and celestial balsam, of which, laying but a little in the wounds of the fallen Chitterlings, in a very short time the wounded were healed and the dead restored to life. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He also told us that there was a phial of sanc-greal, a most divine thing, and known to a few. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Such is a faithful description of this august and venerable relic; and I question whether the learned Scriblerius contemplated his Roman shield, or the Knights of the Round Table the long-sought san-greal, with more exultation. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The sayd noble Ientylmen instantly requyred me t'emprynte thystorye of the sayd noble kyng and conquerour king Arthur and of his knyghtes, _wyth thystorye of the saynt greal_, and of the deth and endynge of the sayd Arthur; Affermyng that ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

Behind him the screen exploded: an avalanche fell in greal flourings of stone, whole cities of granite, immense edifices P of marble piled, broke and flooded down. ❋ Bradbury, Ray, 1920- (1949)

The explanation of "San greal" as "sang real" (kingly blood) was not current until the later Middle Ages. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

So by holding my peace I was invited to spend the night with him, and he and his family treated me with a greal deal of respect. ❋ Unknown (1892)

There is a greal deal of latent energy reposing under those downy flakes of gentleness, and should occasion require, it will wake and astonish yourself by its power. ❋ Unknown (1854)