All 41 Uses of

grave

in

Jane Eyre

"Something passed her, all dressed in white, and vanished" — "A great black dog behind him" — "Three loud raps on the chamber door" — "A light in the churchyard just over his grave," &c.†
Chpt 3

The first was a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, her countenance was grave, her bearing erect.†
Chpt 5

She stood at the bottom of the long room, on the hearth; for there was a fire at each end; she surveyed the two rows of girls silently and gravely.†
Chpt 5

I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes.†
Chpt 5

At the utterance of Miss Temple's name, a soft smile flitted over her grave face.†
Chpt 6

This done, I lingered yet a little longer: the flowers smelt so sweet as the dew fell; it was such a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm; the still glowing west promised so fairly another fine day on the morrow; the moon rose with such majesty in the grave east.†
Chpt 9

Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word "Resurgam."†
Chpt 9

Instead, all alone, sitting upright on the rug, and gazing with gravity at the blaze, I beheld a great black and white long-haired dog, just like the Gytrash of the lane.†
Chpt 12

By my word! there is something singular about you," said he: "you have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet (except, by-the-bye, when they are directed piercingly to my face; as just now, for instance); and when one asks you a question, or makes a remark to which you are obliged to reply, you rap out a round rejoinder, which, if not blunt, is at least brusque.†
Chpt 14

If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
Chpt 14 *

grave = serious and solemn

But the last singularity explains the first, as I intimated once before: you, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets.†
Chpt 15

He listened very gravely; his face, as I went on, expressed more concern than astonishment; he did not immediately speak when I had concluded.†
Chpt 15

"Some natural tears she shed" on being told this; but as I began to look very grave, she consented at last to wipe them.
Chpt 17

grave = serious and solemn

Then the importance of the process quickly steadied her, and by the time she had her curls arranged in well-smoothed, drooping clusters, her pink satin frock put on, her long sash tied, and her lace mittens adjusted, she looked as grave as any judge.
Chpt 17

You are not to suppose, reader, that Adele has all this time been sitting motionless on the stool at my feet: no; when the ladies entered, she rose, advanced to meet them, made a stately reverence, and said with gravity — "Bon jour, mesdames."†
Chpt 17

I told her something on that point about an hour ago which made her look wondrous grave: the corners of her mouth fell half an inch.
Chpt 19

grave = serious and solemn

What does that grave smile signify?
Chpt 19

"They don't look grave and mysterious, as if they had heard something strange?"
Chpt 19

"Little friend," said he, in quite a changed tone — while his face changed too, losing all its softness and gravity, and becoming harsh and sarcastic — "you have noticed my tender penchant for Miss Ingram: don't you think if I married her she would regenerate me with a vengeance?"†
Chpt 20

I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil — if evil existent or prospective there was — seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.
Chpt 23

grave = serious and solemn

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal, — as we are!"†
Chpt 23

When I looked up, on leaving his arms, there stood the widow, pale, grave, and amazed.†
Chpt 23

Mrs. Fairfax surprised me by looking out of the window with a sad countenance, and saying gravely — "Miss Eyre, will you come to breakfast?"†
Chpt 24

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.†
Chpt 26

And THIS is what I wished to have" (laying his hand on my shoulder): "this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.
Chpt 26

grave = serious and solemn

You are looking grave.†
Chpt 27

I did not know it, even when, on the occasion of Mesrour's accident, it came up and gravely offered me help.†
Chpt 27

He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering — and oh! with agony I thought of what I left.†
Chpt 27

"And far better that crows and ravens — if any ravens there be in these regions — should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave."†
Chpt 28

I cannot call them handsome — they were too pale and grave for the word: as they each bent over a book, they looked thoughtful almost to severity.†
Chpt 28

She wiped her eyes with her apron: the two girls, grave before, looked sad now.†
Chpt 28

I maintained a grave silence for some minutes.
Chpt 29

grave = serious and solemn

A dog — old Carlo, Mr. Rivers' pointer, as I saw in a moment — was pushing the gate with his nose, and St. John himself leant upon it with folded arms; his brow knit, his gaze, grave almost to displeasure, fixed on me.†
Chpt 31

As he stood, mute and grave, she again fell to caressing Carlo.†
Chpt 31

I have seen their grave; it formed part of the pavement of a huge churchyard surrounding the grim, soot-black old cathedral of an overgrown manufacturing town in -shire.†
Chpt 33

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune; one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.†
Chpt 33

He looked grave.†
Chpt 34

He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm.†
Chpt 34

And how will the interval between leaving England for India, and India for the grave, be filled?†
Chpt 34

Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes.†
Chpt 36

"She had better not wait till then, Jane," said Mr. Rochester, when I read her letter to him; "if she does, she will be too late, for our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."†
Chpt 38

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Definition:

(grave as in: Her manner was grave.)
serious and/or solemn
The 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

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