All 50 Uses of
grave
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Pavlovitch could not show him where his second wife was buried, for he had never visited her grave since he had thrown earth upon her coffin, and in the course of years had entirely forgotten where she was buried.†
Chpt 1
- Grigory it was who pointed out the "crazy woman's" grave to Alyosha.†
Chpt 1
- He had put it up on the poor "crazy woman's" grave at his own expense, after Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom he had often pestered about the grave, had gone to Odessa, abandoning the grave and all his memories.†
Chpt 1
- He had put it up on the poor "crazy woman's" grave at his own expense, after Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom he had often pestered about the grave, had gone to Odessa, abandoning the grave and all his memories.†
Chpt 1
- He had put it up on the poor "crazy woman's" grave at his own expense, after Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom he had often pestered about the grave, had gone to Odessa, abandoning the grave and all his memories.†
Chpt 1
- Alyosha showed no particular emotion at the sight of his mother's grave.†
Chpt 1
- Not long after visiting his mother's grave Alyosha suddenly announced that he wanted to enter the monastery, and that the monks were willing to receive him as a novice.†
Chpt 1
- With dignified gravity he made a rather deep, conventional bow, and moved away to a chair.†
Chpt 2
- The thought of the life beyond the grave distracts me to anguish, to terror.†
Chpt 2
- And I say to myself, 'What if I've been believing all my life, and when I come to die there's nothing but the burdocks growing on my grave?' as I read in some author.†
Chpt 2
- He was a tall, thin, but still vigorous old man, with black hair streaked with gray, and a long, grave, ascetic face.†
Chpt 2
- The grave and dignified Grigory thought over all his cares and duties alone, so that Marfa Ignatyevna had long grown used to knowing that he did not need her advice.†
Chpt 3
- But when, at the end of a fortnight, the baby died of thrush, he himself laid the child in its little coffin, looked at it in profound grief, and when they were filling up the shallow little grave he fell on his knees and bowed down to the earth.†
Chpt 3
- His habit of theological reading gave him an expression of still greater gravity.†
Chpt 3
- Ivan bent down again with a perfectly grave face.†
Chpt 3
- "No, Smerdyakov has not the Russian faith at all," said Alyosha firmly and gravely.†
Chpt 3
- Alyosha felt at once that he had gravely wronged her in his thoughts.†
Chpt 3
- Father Paissy's face looked the gravest of all.†
Chpt 4
- Rakitin had commissioned the monk who brought his message "to inform most respectfully his reverence Father Paissy, that he, Rakitin, has a matter to speak of with him, of such gravity that he dare not defer it for a moment, and humbly begs forgiveness for his presumption."†
Chpt 4
- His eyes gleamed, and a grave and solemn smile came into his lips.
Chpt 4 *grave = serious and solemn
- Madame Hohlakov looked gravely alarmed.†
Chpt 5
- I might as well be in my grave at once.†
Chpt 5
- Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death.†
Chpt 5
- But if he had been asked why, he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world.†
Chpt 5
- The whole town followed him to the grave.†
Chpt 6
- When Fyodor Pavlovitch, who first came into contact with Grushenka over a piece of speculation, ended to his own surprise by falling madly in love with her, old Samsonov, gravely ill as he was, was immensely amused.†
Chpt 7
- Mitya fussed about the drunken peasant for half an hour, wetting his head, and gravely resolved not to sleep all night.†
Chpt 8
- They all spoke of it, not laughing, but with a strange gravity.†
Chpt 8
- "We'll have cards from the landlord, panie," said the little Pole, gravely and emphatically.†
Chpt 8
- He talked to me like a schoolmaster, all so grave and learned; he met me so solemnly that I was struck dumb.
Chpt 8grave = serious and solemn
- When he was engaged in his official duties, he always became extraordinarily grave, as though realizing his position and the sanctity of the obligations laid upon him.†
Chpt 9
- Her grave air, her direct earnest look and quiet manner made a very favorable impression on every one.†
Chpt 9
- "But is her husband in prison?" the matter-of-fact Kostya inquired gravely.†
Chpt 10
- And you, granny," he added gravely, in an undertone, as he passed Agafya, "I hope you'll spare their tender years and not tell them any of your old woman's nonsense about Katerina.†
Chpt 10
- Kolya scanned him gravely.†
Chpt 10
- "His name is not Trifon and not Sabaneyev, it's Tchizhov," put in suddenly a third woman, who had hitherto been silent, listening gravely.†
Chpt 10
- "Cleverer than you," the peasant answered unexpectedly, with the same gravity.†
Chpt 10
- "A black nose, that means he'll be fierce, a good house-dog," Kolya observed gravely and stolidly, as if the only thing he cared about was the puppy and its black nose.†
Chpt 10
- Do you know, all this last month, I've been saying to myself, 'Either we shall be friends at once, for ever, or we shall part enemies to the grave!'†
Chpt 10
- "But don't ever forget me, father," Ilusha went on, "come to my grave …. and, father, bury me by our big stone, where we used to go for our walk, and come to me there with Krassotkin in the evening …. and Perezvon ….†
Chpt 10
- Love will be sufficient only for a moment of life, but the very consciousness of its momentariness will intensify its fire, which now is dissipated in dreams of eternal love beyond the grave'…. and so on and so on in the same style.†
Chpt 11
- Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet's question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits us beyond the grave had long been erased in their minds and buried under the sands.†
Chpt 12
- "A weighty speech," a gentleman in one group observed gravely.†
Chpt 12
- A grave anxiety was fretting Mitya.†
Chpt Epil.
- One can hear the singing in church and the deacon reads so plainly and verbally that it will reach him every time just as though it were read over his grave.†
Chpt Epil.
- "I was sitting by him one night and he suddenly told me: 'Father, when my grave is filled up crumble a piece of bread on it so that the sparrows may fly down, I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.'†
Chpt Epil.
- Gradually he seemed to sink into brooding and did not resist when the coffin was lifted up and carried to the grave.†
Chpt Epil.
- After the customary rites the grave-diggers lowered the coffin.†
Chpt Epil.
- Snegiryov with his flowers in his hands bent down so low over the open grave that the boys caught hold of his coat in alarm and pulled him back.†
Chpt Epil.
- When they began filling up the grave, he suddenly pointed anxiously at the falling earth and began trying to say something, but no one could make out what he meant, and he stopped suddenly.†
Chpt Epil.
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