All 23 Uses of
grave
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- He was on his way to dig some one out of a grave.†
Chpt 1.3
- Dig—dig—dig—until an impatient movement from one of the two passengers would admonish him to pull up the window, draw his arm securely through the leathern strap, and speculate upon the two slumbering forms, until his mind lost its hold of them, and they again slid away into the bank and the grave.†
Chpt 1.3
- Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire.†
Chpt 1.4
- The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger.
Chpt 1.5grave = serious and solemn
- "See here then, Monsieur the Officer," said Defarge, getting down, and taking him gravely apart, "these are the papers of monsieur inside, with the white head.†
Chpt 1.6
- Cramped in all kinds of dun cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely.†
Chpt 2.1
- He was quiet and attentive; watched the opening proceedings with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab of wood before him, so composedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn.
Chpt 2.2 *grave = serious and solemn
- Standing, as it were, apart with her on the edge of his grave, not all the staring curiosity that looked on, could, for the moment, nerve him to remain quite still.†
Chpt 2.3
- But, there my Lord interposed (with as grave a face as if it had not been true), saying that he could not sit upon that Bench and suffer those allusions.†
Chpt 2.3
- Lastly, came my Lord himself, turning the suit of clothes, now inside out, now outside in, but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave-clothes for the prisoner.†
Chpt 2.3
- Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason.
Chpt 2.4grave = serious and solemn
- From these pilgrimages to the jug and basin, he returned with such eccentricities of damp headgear as no words can describe; which were made the more ludicrous by his anxious gravity.†
Chpt 2.5
- He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.†
Chpt 2.10
- Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.†
Chpt 2.16
- Among the echoes then, there would arise the sound of footsteps at her own early grave; and thoughts of the husband who would be left so desolate, and who would mourn for her so much, swelled to her eyes, and broke like waves.†
Chpt 2.21
- But he is denounced—and gravely—by the Citizen and Citizeness Defarge.†
Chpt 3.7
- Once denounced, and on such grave grounds as had just now been suggested to his mind, he foresaw that the dreadful woman of whose unrelenting character he had seen many proofs, would produce against him that fatal register, and would quash his last chance of life.†
Chpt 3.8
- Long ago, when he had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave.†
Chpt 3.9
- These solemn words, which had been read at his father's grave, arose in his mind as he went down the dark streets, among the heavy shadows, with the moon and the clouds sailing on high above him.†
Chpt 3.9
- I knew that this might last for many hours, and that it would probably end in the silence of the grave.†
Chpt 3.10
- It brought me here, it brought me to my grave.†
Chpt 3.10
- I was brought here, I was brought to my living grave.†
Chpt 3.10
- Though he said it with a grave smile of earnestness, and though he even put the old man's hand to his lips, he did not part from him then.†
Chpt 3.12
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