All 19 Uses of
grave
in
My Antonia
- He spoke kindly and gravely, and Antonia translated: 'My tatinek say when you are big boy, he give you his gun.†
Book 1
- 'You had better go over and see our neighbours tomorrow, Emmaline,' he replied gravely.†
Book 1
- "There I will bury him, if I dig the grave myself," she say.†
Book 1
- I have to promise her I help Ambrosch make the grave tomorrow.'†
Book 1
- All day Friday Jelinek was off with Ambrosch digging the grave, chopping out the frozen earth with old axes.†
Book 1
- When we reached the grave, it looked a very little spot in that snow-covered waste.†
Book 1
- Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed section-lines, Mr. Shimerda's grave was still there, with a sagging wire fence around it, and an unpainted wooden cross.†
Book 1
- The road from the north curved a little to the east just there, and the road from the west swung out a little to the south; so that the grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island; and at twilight, under a new moon or the clear evening star, the dusty roads used to look like soft grey rivers flowing past it.†
Book 1
- I loved the dim superstition, the propitiatory intent, that had put the grave there; and still more I loved the spirit that could not carry out the sentence--the error from the surveyed lines, the clemency of the soft earth roads along which the home-coming wagons rattled after sunset.†
Book 1
- Presently he said gravely: 'Sister, you know mother's name is Berthe.†
Book 2
- I said I felt sure then that he was on his way back to his own country, and that even now, when I passed his grave, I always thought of him as being among the woods and fields that were so dear to him.†
Book 2
- His gravity made us laugh immoderately.†
Book 3
- "Then I have misjudged you, and I ask your pardon"--he bowed gravely.
Book 3 *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- He was usually cold and distant with men, but with all women he had a silent, grave familiarity, a special handshake, accompanied by a significant, deliberate look.†
Book 4
- After supper Mrs. Steavens and I went upstairs to the old sitting-room, while her grave, silent brother remained in the basement to read his farm papers.†
Book 4
- She was thinner than I had ever seen her, and looked as Mrs. Steavens said, 'worked down,' but there was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colour still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardour.†
Book 4
- He, too, looked grave.†
Book 5
- I was thinking about Antonia and her children; about Anna's solicitude for her, Ambrosch's grave affection, Leo's jealous, animal little love.†
Book 5
- In my memory there was a succession of such pictures, fixed there like the old woodcuts of one's first primer: Antonia kicking her bare legs against the sides of my pony when we came home in triumph with our snake; Antonia in her black shawl and fur cap, as she stood by her father's grave in the snowstorm; Antonia coming in with her work-team along the evening sky-line.†
Book 5
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