All 25 Uses of
grave
in
Interview with the Vampire
- His father was gravely ill and might not live.†
Part 1gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- 'You know nothing,' she said to him gravely, her voice so low that the slightest noise from the street interrupted it, might carry her words away, so that I found myself straining to hear her against myself as I lay with my head back against the chair.†
Part 1
- Hunt your vampires if you must' " 'By day,' she said gravely, winking her eye and slowly nodding her head.†
Part 2
- Claudia had slipped down from my arms, and she was staring at me gravely as I bolted the door.†
Part 2
- To bring this suffering on another, and to condemn to death all those men and women whom that vampire must subsequently kill! I broke a grave promise.
Part 3 *grave = serious and solemn
- He stood back on the brick sidewalk regarding me with that grave suspicion that sooner or later crept into the faces of all mortals who-knew us for any length of time, the forerunner of death, as pallor might be to a fatal fever; and I tried to explain to him they had not been here, mother or daughter, and we must begin some search.†
Part 1
- 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.†
Part 1
- And I can see him clawing his way through the moist earth for such a coffin, dumping the fresh contents out in the swamps, and securing himself until the next nightfall in that shallow grave where no manner of man would be wont to disturb him.†
Part 2
- A winter night in New Orleans when I wandered through the St. Louis cemetery and saw my sister, old and bent, a bouquet of white roses in her arms, the thorns carefully bound in an old parchment, her gray head bowed, her steps carrying her steadily along through the perilous dark to the grave where the stone of her brother Louis was set, side by side with that of his younger brother....Louis, who had died in the fire of Pointe du Lac leaving a generous legacy to a godchild and namesake she never knew.†
Part 2
- We were naked and lost in their tiny hamlets, and conscious always that amongst them we were in grave danger.†
Part 2
- And the horse was just standing there, tossing its head; and finally this fellow who was the leader burst forward and shouted to several of the others; and one of the women-she screamed, and threw herself on the grave almost under the horse's hooves.†
Part 2
- Well, two of them finally did have that woman up, and then the other had come with shovels and had begun to dig right into the grave.†
Part 2
- Pretty soon one of them was down in the grave, and everyone was so still you could hear the slightest sound, that shovel digging in there and the earth thrown up in a heap.†
Part 2
- And then I could hear this fellow in the grave.†
Part 2
- The other fellows drew up close, and all at once there was a rush to the grave; and then they all fell back like a wave, all of them crying out, and some of them turning and trying to push away.†
Part 2
- 'And then this fellow who was in the grave, he bent down and lifted the dead woman's hand.†
Part 2
- Then he shouted; and that woman beside the grave, she was kicking at those fellows and shoving at the earth with her foot, so it fell right down in the corpse's face and hair.†
Part 2
- They took a stake, a wooden stake, mind you; and this one in the grave, he took —the stake with a hammer and he put it right to her breast.†
Part 2
- I was seeing this woman in her grave with the head severed, and I was feeling the most keen revulsion inside myself, as if a hand were pressing on my throat and my insides were coming up inside me and I couldn't breathe.†
Part 2
- Her white burial gown was soaked with dried blood, her fingers caked with the dirt of the grave.†
Part 2
- What if, after Lestat's infusion of blood, she'd been put in a grave, closed up in it until the preternatural drive for blood caused her to break the stone door of the vault that held her, what then would her mind have been, starved, as it were, to the breaking point?†
Part 2
- Yet I was injured by her words and by her eyes, and no amount of explanations to her which passed through and through my mind now, even forming on my lips in desperate whispers as I left the Rue St. Michel and went deeper and deeper into the older, darker streets of the Latin Quarter-no amount of explanations seemed to soothe what I imagined to be her grave dissatisfaction, or my own pain.†
Part 3
- And I warn you, for whatever mercy you've shown me in digging me out of that grave tonight where I would have died: Do not seek your cell in the Theatre des Vampires again.†
Part 3
- I wanted to make contact with those grave-thieves who know snore of the graves than do scholars, and I wanted to go down into the graves yet unopened and see the kings as they were buried, see those furnishings and works of art stored with them, and the paintings on their walls.†
Part 3
- The grave, long neglected because my family was gone, received the only thing he'd left behind.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner