All 26 Uses of
grave
in
Lord Jim
- He walked slowly aboard, handsome and grave in his white gown and large turban.†
Chpt 2
- When he moved, a skeleton seemed to sway loose in his clothes; his walk was mere wandering, and he was given to wander thus around the engine-room skylight, smoking, without relish, doctored tobacco in a brass bowl at the end of a cherrywood stem four feet long, with the imbecile gravity of a thinker evolving a system of philosophy from the hazy glimpse of a truth.†
Chpt 3
- If I understand anything of men, the matter was no doubt of the gravest import, one of those trifles that awaken ideas—start into life some thought with which a man unused to such a companionship finds it impossible to live.†
Chpt 6
- We were like men walled up quick in a roomy grave.†
Chpt 10
- "And so that poor young man ran away along with the others," he said, with grave tranquillity.†
Chpt 13
- The Pacific is the most discreet of live, hot-tempered oceans: the chilly Antarctic can keep a secret too, but more in the manner of a grave.†
Chpt 16
- My talk was of the material aspect of his position; it had the sole aim of saving him from the degradation, ruin, and despair that out there close so swiftly upon a friendless, homeless man; I pleaded with him to accept my help; I argued reasonably: and every time I looked up at that absorbed smooth face, so grave and youthful, I had a disturbing sense of being no help but rather an obstacle to some mysterious, inexplicable, impalpable striving of his wounded spirit.
Chpt 17 *grave = serious and solemn
- ' "Ach so!" he murmured, and his smiling countenance, turned to me, became grave.†
Chpt 20
- His tall form, as though robbed of its substance, hovered noiselessly over invisible things with stooping and indefinite movements; his voice, heard in that remoteness where he could be glimpsed mysteriously busy with immaterial cares, was no longer incisive, seemed to roll voluminous and grave—mellowed by distance.†
Chpt 20
- 'Of course I don't know that story; I can only guess that once before Patusan had been used as a grave for some sin, transgression, or misfortune.†
Chpt 21
- On the third day after the full, the moon, as seen from the open space in front of Jim's house (he had a very fine house in the native style when I visited him), rose exactly behind these hills, its diffused light at first throwing the two masses into intensely black relief, and then the nearly perfect disc, glowing ruddily, appeared, gliding upwards between the sides of the chasm, till it floated away above the summits, as if escaping from a yawning grave in gentle triumph.†
Chpt 21
- I had never seen Jim look so grave, so self-possessed, in an impenetrable, impressive way.†
Chpt 22
- He meditated gravely over his fist.†
Chpt 23
- I probably didn't realise, he said with a naive gravity, how much importance he attached to that token.†
Chpt 23
- 'He spoke thus to me before his house on that evening I've mentioned—after we had watched the moon float away above the chasm between the hills like an ascending spirit out of a grave; its sheen descended, cold and pale, like the ghost of dead sunlight.†
Chpt 24
- At that moment we came into the presence, and he became unflinchingly grave and complimentary with his late captor.†
Chpt 25
- She was constantly in movement, scolding busily and ordering unceasingly a troop of young women with clear brown faces and big grave eyes, her daughters, her servants, her slave-girls.†
Chpt 25
- Apparently it is a story very much like the others: for me, however, there is visible in its background the melancholy figure of a woman, the shadow of a cruel wisdom buried in a lonely grave, looking on wistfully, helplessly, with sealed lips.†
Chpt 28
- The grave itself, as I came upon it during an early morning stroll, was a rather shapeless brown mound, with an inlaid neat border of white lumps of coral at the base, and enclosed within a circular fence made of split saplings, with the bark left on.†
Chpt 28
- 'Thus, whether the shadow is of my imagination or not, I can at all events point out the significant fact of an unforgotten grave.†
Chpt 28
- The breath of sad wisdom from the grave which her piety wreathed with flowers seemed to pass in a faint sigh….†
Chpt 33
- It threw its level rays afar as if from a cavern, and in this mournful eclipse-like light the stumps of felled trees uprose very dark, the heavy shadows fell at my feet on all sides, my own moving shadow, and across my path the shadow of the solitary grave perpetually garlanded with flowers.†
Chpt 34
- 'It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly of the living who, buried in remote places out of the knowledge of mankind, still are fated to share in its tragic or grotesque miseries.†
Chpt 34
- He had called me "honourable sir" at every second sentence, and had whined at my elbow as he followed me from the grave of his "late wife" to the gate of Jim's compound.†
Chpt 34
- A contempt, a weariness, the desire of life, the wish to try for one more chance—for some other grave—struggled in his breast.†
Chpt 41
- He looked round at the grave listening faces and told them to remember that they had fought and worked side by side.†
Chpt 42
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