All 50 Uses of
grave
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.†
Chpt 1
- He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown.†
Chpt 1
- —I doubt it, said Stephen gravely.†
Chpt 1
- To the voice that will shrive and oil for the grave all there is of her but her woman's unclean loins, of man's flesh made not in God's likeness, the serpent's prey.†
Chpt 1
- He stood up, gravely ungirdled and disrobed himself of his gown, saying resignedly: —Mulligan is stripped of his garments.†
Chpt 1
- Resigned he passed out with grave words and gait, saying, wellnigh with sorrow: —And going forth he met Butterly.†
Chpt 1
- Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.†
Chpt 2
- —They sinned against the light, Mr Deasy said gravely.†
Chpt 2
- Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun.†
Chpt 3
- He walked back along Dorset street, reading gravely.†
Chpt 4
- It's the force of gravity of the earth is the weight.†
Chpt 5
- He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heart pocket.†
Chpt 5
- Mr Bloom glanced from his angry moustache to Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, gravely shaking.†
Chpt 6
- We obey them in the grave.†
Chpt 6
- They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave.†
Chpt 6
- He gazed gravely at the ground till the coffincart wheeled off to the left.†
Chpt 6
- —Her grave is over there, Jack, Mr Dedalus said.†
Chpt 6
- Mr Bloom nodded gravely looking in the quick bloodshot eyes.†
Chpt 6
- —They tell the story, he said, that two drunks came out here one foggy evening to look for the grave of a friend of theirs.†
Chpt 6
- After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.†
Chpt 6
- Still he'd have to get someone to sod him after he died though he could dig his own grave.†
Chpt 6
- —Let us go round by the chief's grave, Hynes said.†
Chpt 6
- With awe Mr Power's blank voice spoke: —Some say he is not in that grave at all.†
Chpt 6
- Twentyseventh I'll be at his grave.†
Chpt 6
- Silly-Milly burying the little dead bird in the kitchen matchbox, a daisychain and bits of broken chainies on the grave.†
Chpt 6
- Have a gramophone in every grave or keep it in the house.†
Chpt 6
- Martin Cunningham emerged from a sidepath, talking gravely.†
Chpt 6
- THE CROZIER AND THE PEN —His grace phoned down twice this morning, Red Murray said gravely.†
Chpt 7
- Simon Dedalus said when they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back from the grave and lead him out of the house of commons by the arm.†
Chpt 8
- And in New Place a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet, as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.†
Chpt 9
- He thous and thees her with grave husbandwords.†
Chpt 9
- It repeats itself again when he is near the grave, when his married daughter Susan, chip of the old block, is accused of adultery.†
Chpt 9
- Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: —I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in upper Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore.†
Chpt 9
- Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c, in silk hat, slate frockcoat with silk facings, white kerchief tie, tight lavender trousers, canary gloves and pointed patent boots, walking with grave deportment most respectfully took the curbstone as he passed lady Maxwell at the corner of Dignam's court.†
Chpt 10
- Father Conmee blessed both gravely and turned a thin page of his breviary.†
Chpt 10
- M'Coy's white face smiled about it at instants and grew grave.†
Chpt 10
- On O'Connell bridge many persons observed the grave deportment and gay apparel of Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c.†
Chpt 10
- —I will, he said gravely.†
Chpt 10
- Buck Mulligan bent across the table gravely.†
Chpt 10
- A charming soubrette, great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt smiled daubily from her poster upon William Humble, earl of Dudley, and upon lieutenantcolonel H. G. Heseltine, and also upon the honourable Gerald Ward A. D. C. From the window of the D. B. C. Buck Mulligan gaily, and Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal equipage over the shoulders of eager guests, whose mass of forms darkened the chessboard whereon John Howard Parnell looked intently.†
Chpt 10
- Opposite Pigott's music warerooms Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c, gaily apparelled, gravely walked, outpassed by a viceroy and unobserved.†
Chpt 10
- Down stage he strode some paces, grave, tall in affliction, his long arms outheld.†
Chpt 11
- The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men and true.†
Chpt 11
- Wonder who was that chap at the grave in the brown macin.†
Chpt 11
- O'Nolan, clad in shining armour, low bending made obeisance to the puissant and high and mighty chief of all Erin and did him to wit of that which had befallen, how that the grave elders of the most obedient city, second of the realm, had met them in the tholsel, and there, after due prayers to the gods who dwell in ether supernal, had taken solemn counsel whereby they might, if so be it might be, bring once more into honour among mortal men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael.†
Chpt 12
- Whitehot passion was in that face, passion silent as the grave, and it had made her his.†
Chpt 13
- Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest…†
Chpt 14
- But sir Leopold was passing grave maugre his word by cause he still had pity of the terrorcausing shrieking of shrill women in their labour and as he was minded of his good lady Marion that had borne him an only manchild which on his eleventh day on live had died and no man of art could save so dark is destiny.†
Chpt 14
- The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a countrystile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to place her hand against that part of her person which long usage has consecrated as the seat of castigation.†
Chpt 14
- Hitherto silent, whether the better to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the garb with which he was invested or in obedience to an inward voice, he delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to put asunder what God has joined.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner