All 20 Uses of
grave
in
Childhood's End
- Wainwright nodded gravely.†
Chpt 2
- And for every person who has signed, there are many who feel grave doubts about the wisdom, not to mention the rightness of this Federation plan.
Chpt 2 *grave = serious (important)
- His voice suddenly became grave.†
Chpt 3
- And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.†
Chpt 4
- It possessed a private gravity of its own, one which could ignore that of Earth.†
Chpt 5
- Perhaps they found it physically uncomfortable on Earth, for their size, and the existence of their wings, indicated that they came from a world of much lower gravity.†
Chpt 6
- Yet Man had not discovered anti-gravity: only the Overlords possessed that ultimate secret.†
Chpt 6
- From scanty facts and suppositions such as these, scientists had concluded that the Overlords came from a world of low gravity and very dense atmosphere.†
Chpt 7
- "With your low gravity," answered Sullivan, "I should have thought you would have had some very large animals.†
Chpt 13
- "In some ways," admitted the Overlord gravely.†
Chpt 17
- Its enormous gravity had long ago crushed into one uniform level the mountains of its fiery youth-mountains whose mightiest peaks had never exceeded a few metres in height.†
Chpt 18
- 'We have met before, Mr. Greggson," said the Overlord gravely.†
Chpt 18
- Yet there was never the slightest sense of motion or acceleration-only a perfectly constant gravity, which he judged to be about a fifth of Earth's.†
Chpt 22
- They watched him gravely as the great doors opened before his eager eyes.†
Chpt 22
- This was the home of creatures who could fly, and who had no fear of gravity.†
Chpt 22
- Yet its gravity was low, and Jan wondered why it had so dense an atmosphere.†
Chpt 22
- They had evolved on a much smaller world and then conquered this one, changing not only its atmosphere but even its gravity.†
Chpt 22
- From the Overlord's description, Jan built up a picture of a cyclopean beast living among the asteroidal rubble of some distant sun, its growth uninhibited by gravity, depending for food and life upon the range and resolving power of its single eye.†
Chpt 22
- Even on a world with gravity as low as this, it seemed hard to believe that such mountains could exist.†
Chpt 22
- Something's happened to gravity-there's a great wind coming up-I can see the trees tossing their branches down there in the valley.†
Chpt 24
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