There was a certain grimness to the professor's tone.

"I think that willna be difficult," Jamie had assured her with a certain grimness.

"We'll see what it looks like outside," he said with a certain grimness.

"I'll think of something," he replied, with a certain grimness.

"That leaves only three hundred dollars on the mortgage," he said with a certain grimness.

There was a certain grimness in his voice.

And not, she observed with a certain grimness, to Saphier.

They had come to pray, and they did so with a certain grimness.

"That I was," the vendor answered, with a certain grimness.

There is a certain grimness about this long day out from camp - a round trip of nearly 150 miles.