All 29 Uses of
grave
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He shook the poker gravely and nodded his head at the fellow out of third of grammar.†
Chpt 1
- —Let him remember too, cried Mr Casey to her from across the table, the language with which the priests and the priests' pawns broke Parnell's heart and hounded him into his grave.†
Chpt 1
- He had been cast for it on account of his stature and grave manners for he was now at the end of his second year at Belvedere and in number two.†
Chpt 2
- —But did so much good, Simon, said the little old man gravely.†
Chpt 2
- As he stood silent in the middle of the room she came over to him and embraced him gaily and gravely.†
Chpt 2
- The rector went on gravely: —You are all familiar with the story of the life of saint Francis Xavier, I suppose, the patron of your college.†
Chpt 3
- Into the grave with it.†
Chpt 3
- Thrust it out of men's sight into a long hole in the ground, into the grave, to rot, to feed the mass of its creeping worms and to be devoured by scuttling plump-bellied rats.†
Chpt 3
- He it is and he alone, the pious and believing christian, who can say in his heart: O grave, where is thy victory?†
Chpt 3
- Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption.†
Chpt 3
- Blinded by his tears and by the light of God's mercifulness he bent his head and heard the grave words of absolution spoken and saw the priest's hand raised above him in token of forgiveness.†
Chpt 3
- Stephen followed also with his ears the accents and intervals of the priest's voice as he spoke gravely and cordially of indifferent themes, the vacation which had just ended, the colleges of the order abroad, the transference of masters.†
Chpt 4
- The grave and cordial voice went on easily with its tale and in the pauses Stephen felt bound to set it on again with respectful questions.†
Chpt 4
- The priest let the blindcord fall to one side and, uniting his hands, leaned his chin gravely upon them, communing with himself.†
Chpt 4
- A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest's voice made Stephen's heart quicken in response.†
Chpt 4
- The shadow, then, of the life of the college passed gravely over his consciousness.†
Chpt 4
- It was a grave and ordered and passionless life that awaited him, a life without material cares.
Chpt 4 *grave = serious and solemn
- What were they now but cerements shaken from the body of death—the fear he had walked in night and day, the incertitude that had ringed him round, the shame that had abased him within and without— cerements, the linens of the grave?†
Chpt 4
- His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.†
Chpt 4
- His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.†
Chpt 4
- His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow under the windows of that age, to hear the grave and mocking music of the lutenists or the frank laughter of waist-coateers until a laugh too low, a phrase, tarnished by time, of chambering and false honour stung his monkish pride and drove him on from his lurking-place.†
Chpt 5
- …of studies, the portly florid bursar with his cap of grey hair, the president, the little priest with feathery hair who wrote devout verses, the squat peasant form of the professor of economics, the tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes, the grave troubled prefect of the sodality, the plump round-headed professor of Italian with his rogue's eyes.†
Chpt 5
- The professor began to juggle gravely with the terms pure science and applied science.†
Chpt 5
- In the inner hall the dean of studies stood talking to a young professor, stroking his chin gravely and nodding his head.†
Chpt 5
- Stephen went on: —Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.†
Chpt 5
- Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.†
Chpt 5
- The simplest epical form is seen emerging out of lyrical literature when the artist prolongs and broods upon himself as the centre of an epical event and this form progresses till the centre of emotional gravity is equidistant from the artist himself and from others.†
Chpt 5
- The squat student did not eat it but, indulging his special humour, said gravely, still tittering and prodding his phrase with his umbrella: —Do you intend that….†
Chpt 5
- Cranly, now grave again, slowed his pace and said: —Alone, quite alone.†
Chpt 5
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