All 50 Uses of
grave
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "She is not my mistress," replied the young sailor, gravely; "she is my betrothed."†
Chpt 1-2
- The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebiere,—a street of which the modern Phocaeans are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, "If Paris had La Canebiere, Paris would be a second Marseilles."†
Chpt 1-2
- Mercedes courtesied gravely, and said—"That is not my name, and in my country it bodes ill fortune, they say, to call a young girl by the name of her betrothed before he becomes her husband.†
Chpt 3-4
- No sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands.†
Chpt 7-8
- "Why, this is the way of it," said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: "Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to 'serve the good king.'†
Chpt 9-10
- If while he was being carried out the grave-diggers should discover that they were bearing a live instead of a dead body, Dantes did not intend to give them time to recognize him, but with a sudden cut of the knife, he meant to open the sack from top to bottom, and, profiting by their alarm, escape; if they tried to catch him, he would use his knife to better purpose.†
Chpt 19-20
- If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped.†
Chpt 19-20
- If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped.†
Chpt 19-20
- The footsteps—they were double—paused at the door—and Dantes guessed that the two grave-diggers had come to seek him—this idea was soon converted into certainty, when he heard the noise they made in putting down the hand-bier.†
Chpt 19-20
- An exclamation of satisfaction indicated that the grave-digger had found the object of his search.†
Chpt 19-20
- "Well, have you tied the knot?" inquired the grave-digger, who was looking on.†
Chpt 19-20
- "One!" said the grave-diggers, "two! three!"†
Chpt 19-20
- He fancied that these two forms were looking at the sea; doubtless these strange grave-diggers had heard his cry.†
Chpt 22-23
- They had not mistaken the gravity of this event, for the moment after Morrel had entered his private office with Cocles, Julie saw the latter leave it pale, trembling, and his features betraying the utmost consternation.†
Chpt 29-30
- For a man who, like Franz, viewed his position in its true light, it was a grave one.
Chpt 31-32 *grave = serious and solemn
- He turned towards the sailor, who, during this dialogue, had sat gravely plucking the partridges with the air of a man proud of his office, and asked him how these men had landed, as no vessel of any kind was visible.†
Chpt 31-32
- "Excellency," said he gravely, addressing Franz, "if you look upon me as a liar, it is useless for me to say anything; it was for your interest!†
Chpt 33-34
- When the grave was formed, the father kissed her first, and then the lover; afterwards, one taking the head, the other the feet, they placed her in the grave.†
Chpt 33-34
- When the grave was formed, the father kissed her first, and then the lover; afterwards, one taking the head, the other the feet, they placed her in the grave.†
Chpt 33-34
- Then they knelt on each side of the grave, and said the prayers of the dead.†
Chpt 33-34
- Then, when they had finished, they cast the earth over the corpse, until the grave was filled.†
Chpt 33-34
- He found the old man suspended from one of the branches of the oak which shaded his daughter's grave.†
Chpt 33-34
- Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies of this time of liberty and relaxation.†
Chpt 33-34
- "No; of taste," continued Franz gravely.†
Chpt 33-34
- "All I can say is," continued the countess, taking up the lorgnette, and directing it toward the box in question, "that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human.†
Chpt 33-34
- In the streets the lively crowd is dressed in the most fantastic costumes—gigantic cabbages walk gravely about, buffaloes' heads bellow from men's shoulders, dogs walk on their hind legs; in the midst of all this a mask is lifted, and, as in Callot's Temptation of St. Anthony, a lovely face is exhibited, which we would fain follow, but from which we are separated by troops of fiends.†
Chpt 35-36
- First, you purchase a house at Auteuil—this house is the one where I have committed an assassination; you descend to the garden by the same staircase by which he descended; you stop at the spot where he received the blow; and two paces farther is the grave in which he had just buried his child.†
Chpt 43-44
- And in my past life they might find something far more grave than the selling of smuggled cigars, or barrels of brandy without a permit.†
Chpt 43-44
- At this instant a shudder passes over me as I reflect that possibly I am now standing on the very grave in which lies M. de Villefort, by whose hand the ground was dug to receive the corpse of his child.†
Chpt 45-46
- Ask yourself, wherefore, after rescuing the infant from its living grave, you did not restore it to its mother?†
Chpt 45-46
- Monte Cristo, left alone, took three or four steps onwards, and murmured, "Here, beneath this plane-tree, must have been where the infant's grave was dug.†
Chpt 45-46
- The young woman spoke with an expression of deep tenderness, while the count replied with an air of gentle gravity.†
Chpt 45-46
- The procureur entered with the same grave and measured step he would have employed in entering a court of justice.†
Chpt 47-48
- "Count," replied Maximilian, with an air of gravity, "those are our most precious family treasures."†
Chpt 49-50
- "Madame," replied Monte Cristo gravely, and gazing earnestly on the two liquid pearls that trickled down Julie's cheeks, "had Lord Wilmore seen what I now see, he would become attached to life, for the tears you shed would reconcile him to mankind;" and he held out his hand to Julie, who gave him hers, carried away by the look and accent of the count.†
Chpt 49-50
- My father thought that this action had been miraculously performed—he believed that a benefactor had arisen from the grave to save us.†
Chpt 49-50
- This is the mode in which they manage these things, and succeed in Eastern climes, where there are grave and phlegmatic persons who care very little for the questions of time in conjunctures of importance.†
Chpt 51-52
- "Nothing is impossible," gravely replied Monte Cristo; and taking leave of Albert, he returned into the house, and struck the gong three times.†
Chpt 53-54
- "You have opened my eyes," said the Italian gravely; "I will show the gentlemen the door."†
Chpt 55-56
- "How do you do, my dear son?" said the major gravely.†
Chpt 55-56
- Sight and hearing were the only senses remaining, and they, like two solitary sparks, remained to animate the miserable body which seemed fit for nothing but the grave; it was only, however, by means of one of these senses that he could reveal the thoughts and feelings that still occupied his mind, and the look by which he gave expression to his inner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveller sees by night across some desert place, and knows that a living being…†
Chpt 57-58
- Always the same—always the child's corpse, coming every night in my dreams, rising from the earth, and hovering over the grave with menacing look and gesture.†
Chpt 67-68
- The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nimes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have known it.†
Chpt 67-68
- I wish to tell him to make my child happy; I wish to read in his eyes whether he intends to obey me;—in fact, I will know him—I will!" continued the old lady, with a fearful expression, "that I may rise from the depths of my grave to find him, if he should not fulfil his duty!"†
Chpt 71-72
- "Listen, my dear, my adored Valentine," said he in his melodious and grave tone; "those who, like us, have never had a thought for which we need blush before the world, such may read each other's hearts."
Chpt 73-74grave = serious and solemn
- There was something grave and solemn in the approach of the young girl which struck the old man, and immediately his bright eye began to interrogate.†
Chpt 73-74
- Morrel hesitated for a moment; he feared it would be hypocritical to accost in a friendly manner the man whom he was tacitly opposing, but his oath and the gravity of the circumstances recurred to his memory; he struggled to conceal his emotion and bowed to Franz.†
Chpt 73-74
- " ' "Sir," said the president, rising with gravity, "be careful what you say; your words clearly show us that they are deceived concerning you in the Island of Elba, and have deceived us!†
Chpt 75-76
- "My dear viscount," said Monte Cristo gravely, "you must have seen before to-day that at all times and in all places I have been at your disposal, but the service which you have just demanded of me is one which it is out of my power to render you."†
Chpt 77-78
- The coward who feared death rejoiced at perpetual disgrace; for like all galley-slaves, you said, 'I may escape from prison, I cannot from the grave.'†
Chpt 83-84
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