All 9 Uses of
grave
in
Hard Times
- He did not speak again until they had walked some half-a-mile in silence, when he gravely broke out with: 'What would your best friends say, Louisa?†
Chpt 1.3
- All the way to Stone Lodge, as with grave indignation he led the two delinquents home, he repeated at intervals 'What would Mr. Bounderby say?'†
Chpt 1.3
- Here his daughter Josephine — a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies — cried, 'Father, hush! she has come back!'†
Chpt 1.6
- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked: 'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
Chpt 1.6 *grave = serious and solemn
- Stephen infused a yet deeper gravity into the mixed expression of his attentive face.†
Chpt 1.11
- He smoked with great gravity and dignity for a little while, and then added, in a highly complacent tone, 'Oh!†
Chpt 2.3
- …worse than it might be; that every man considered it incumbent on him to join the rest, towards the making of it better; that every man felt his only hope to be in his allying himself to the comrades by whom he was surrounded; and that in this belief, right or wrong (unhappily wrong then), the whole of that crowd were gravely, deeply, faithfully in earnest; must have been as plain to any one who chose to see what was there, as the bare beams of the roof and the whitened brick walls.†
Chpt 2.4
- Stephen gravely shook his head.†
Chpt 2.5
- It seemed now hours and hours since she had left the lost man lying in the grave where he had been buried alive.†
Chpt 3.6
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