All 33 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Here, in the quiet of Boldwood's parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.†
Chpt 13-15
- Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line—less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.†
Chpt 13-15
- The brain gets muddled, the head grows heavy, and the body's centre of gravity seems to settle by degrees in a leaden lump somewhere between the eyebrows and the crown.†
Chpt 19-21
- The men looked grave, as if they suppressed opinion.†
Chpt 19-21
- All grave reports were forgotten.†
Chpt 34-36
- Now, I care a little for your good opinion, and I want to explain something—I have longed to do it ever since I returned, and you looked so gravely at me.†
Chpt 37-39
- Perhaps I shall be in my grave before then.†
Chpt 40-42
- And so she's nailed up in parish boards after all, and nobody to pay the bell shilling and the grave half-crown."†
Chpt 40-42
- "The parish pays the grave half-crown, but not the bell shilling, because the bell's a luxery: but 'a can hardly do without the grave, poor body.†
Chpt 40-42
- "The parish pays the grave half-crown, but not the bell shilling, because the bell's a luxery: but 'a can hardly do without the grave, poor body.†
Chpt 40-42
- Gabriel hoped that the whole truth of the matter might not be published till at any rate the girl had been in her grave for a few days, when the interposing barriers of earth and time, and a sense that the events had been somewhat shut into oblivion, would deaden the sting that revelation and invidious remark would have for Bathsheba just now.†
Chpt 40-42
- Perhaps it would be more accurately described as a determined rebellion against her prejudices, a revulsion from a lower instinct of uncharitableness, which would have withheld all sympathy from the dead woman, because in life she had preceded Bathsheba in the attentions of a man whom Bathsheba had by no means ceased from loving, though her love was sick to death just now with the gravity of a further misgiving.†
Chpt 43-45
- In fact, at that moment she was being robed in her grave-clothes by two attendants at the Union poorhouse—the first and last tiring-women the gentle creature had ever been honoured with.†
Chpt 43-45
- His walk was towards the churchyard, entering which he searched around till he found a newly dug unoccupied grave—the grave dug the day before for Fanny.†
Chpt 43-45
- His walk was towards the churchyard, entering which he searched around till he found a newly dug unoccupied grave—the grave dug the day before for Fanny.†
Chpt 43-45
- "Here's a marble headstone beautifully crocketed, with medallions beneath of typical subjects; here's the footstone after the same pattern, and here's the coping to enclose the grave.†
Chpt 43-45
- He waited in the yard till the tomb was packed, and saw it placed in the cart and starting on its way to Weatherbury, giving directions to the two men who were to accompany it to inquire of the sexton for the grave of the person named in the inscription.†
Chpt 43-45
- Troy entered Weatherbury churchyard about ten o'clock and went immediately to the corner where he had marked the vacant grave early in the morning.†
Chpt 43-45
- The snowdrops were arranged in a line on the outside of the coping, the remainder within the enclosure of the grave.†
Chpt 43-45
- The end of the liquid parabola has come forward from the wall, has advanced over the plinth mouldings, over a heap of stones, over the marble border, into the midst of Fanny Robin's grave.†
Chpt 46-48
- The persistent torrent from the gurgoyle's jaws directed all its vengeance into the grave.†
Chpt 46-48
- The pool upon the grave had soaked away into the ground, and in its place was a hollow.†
Chpt 46-48
- The planting of flowers on Fanny's grave had been perhaps but a species of elusion of the primary grief, and now it was as if his intention had been known and circumvented.†
Chpt 46-48
- Almost for the first time in his life, Troy, as he stood by this dismantled grave, wished himself another man.†
Chpt 46-48
- He slowly withdrew from the grave.†
Chpt 46-48
- Bathsheba did not at once perceive that the grand tomb and the disturbed grave were Fanny's, and she looked on both sides and around for some humbler mound, earthed up and clodded in the usual way.†
Chpt 46-48
- "Really, do ye?" said Gabriel, gravely.†
Chpt 49-51
- "I'm afraid there's a hitch in that argument," said Oak, with a grave smile.
Chpt 49-51 *grave = serious and solemn
- "Liddy—none of that," said Bathsheba, gravely.†
Chpt 52-54
- Everything was silent as the grave when they paused on the landing.†
Chpt 52-54
- The body has been undressed and properly laid out in grave clothes.†
Chpt 52-54
- Her stealthy walk was to the nook wherein Troy had worked at planting flowers upon Fanny Robin's grave, and she came to the marble tombstone.†
Chpt 55-57
- First came the words of Troy himself:— ERECTED BY FRANCIS TROY IN BELOVED MEMORY OF FANNY ROBIN, WHO DIED OCTOBER 9, 18—, AGED 20 YEARS Underneath this was now inscribed in new letters:— IN THE SAME GRAVE LIE THE REMAINS OF THE AFORESAID FRANCIS TROY, WHO DIED DECEMBER 24TH, 18—, AGED 26 YEARS Whilst she stood and read and meditated the tones of the organ began again in the church, and she went with the same light step round to the porch and listened.†
Chpt 55-57
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