All 50 Uses of
grave
in
Dracula
- I tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go.
Chpt 1gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- He opened it and read it gravely.
Chpt 2
- He bowed gravely.
Chpt 2
- With a stately gravity, he, with the lamp, preceded me down the stairs and along the hall.
Chpt 4gravity = seriousness
- I only told him that much, and then he stood up, and he looked very strong and very grave as he took both my hands in his and said he hoped I would be happy, and that If I ever wanted a friend I must count him one of my best.
Chpt 5grave = serious and solemn
- Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in doing so on so grave, so momentous, and occasion for him, I would forgive him.
Chpt 5grave = serious (important)
- She spoke her comment very gravely and somewhat severely.
Chpt 6gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- It is my favourite seat, and I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.†
Chpt 6
- The owners of more than a hundred boats have already given in their names as wishing to follow him to the grave.†
Chpt 7
- Please, God, I shall never, never forget them, nor the grave and sweet responsibilities I have taken upon me.
Chpt 9grave = serious and solemn
- He looked grave, but said, 'I have made careful examination, but there is no functional cause.'
Chpt 9
- Then he went on gravely, "You were always a careful student, and your case book was ever more full than the rest."
Chpt 10gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing.
Chpt 10grave = serious and solemn
- I have grave reasons.
Chpt 10grave = serious (important)
- But it is here that the grave shock that he experienced tells upon him the most.
Chpt 12grave = serious
- I dread coming up to London, as we must do that day after tomorrow, for poor Mr. Hawkins left in his will that he was to be buried in the grave with his father.†
Chpt 12
- He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity, "Not so, alas!"
Chpt 12grave = very serious
- The Professor looked sternly grave.
Chpt 13grave = serious and solemn
- He answered with a grave kindness, "I know it was hard for you to quite trust me then, for to trust such violence needs to understand, and I take it that you do not, that you cannot, trust me now, for you do not yet understand."
Chpt 13
- Then when his face grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mirth, and why at such a time.
Chpt 13
- And yet I can laugh at her very grave, laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say 'Thud, thud!' to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek.†
Chpt 13
- Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?†
Chpt 14
- He began by saying that he hoped we would all come with him too, "for," he said, "there is a grave duty to be done there."
Chpt 15grave = serious (important)
- Then, turning to the other two, he said with intense gravity, "I want your permission to do what I think good this night."
Chpt 15gravity = seriousness and importance (weightiness)
- I am willing to be patient in all things that are reasonable, but in this, this desecration of the grave, of one who ….†
Chpt 15
- What did that poor, sweet girl do that you should want to cast such dishonour on her grave?†
Chpt 15
- I have a duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage, and by God, I shall do it!†
Chpt 15
- Van Helsing rose up from where he had all the time been seated, and said, gravely and sternly, "My Lord Godalming, I too, have a duty to do, a duty to others, a duty to you, a duty to the dead, and by God, I shall do it!"
Chpt 15gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- He said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much affected by it.
Chpt 15grave = serious and solemn
- The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.†
Chpt 16
- "What is here told," he laid his hand heavily and gravely on the packet of papers as he spoke, "may be the beginning of the end to you and me and many another, or it may sound the knell of the UnDead who walk the earth."
Chpt 17gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- I asked, for some grave, terrible feeling was coming over me.
Chpt 17grave = serious (important)
- She laid her hand on mine and said very gravely, "Ah, but they must!"
Chpt 17gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- The Professor read it over gravely, and handed it back, saying, "It need not go in if you do not wish it, but I pray that it may."
Chpt 18
- It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way, as any other transaction of life.
Chpt 18gravely = seriously
- Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time come.†
Chpt 18
- That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us.†
Chpt 18
- I thought it better to wait, however, before making so grave a statement, for of old I knew the sudden changes to which this particular patient was liable.
Chpt 18grave = serious (important)
- I thought it was now time to end the scene, which was becoming too comically grave, so I went towards the door, simply saying, "Come, my friends, we have work to do."
Chpt 18grave = serious and solemn
- The Professor stepped over, and laying his hand on his shoulder, said in his grave, kindly way, "Friend John, have no fear."
Chpt 19
- He grew very grave, and after thinking the matter over for a while asked me to take him to Renfield.
Chpt 20grave = serious
- Then Van Helsing said in a quiet grave tone, "Tell us your dream, Mr. Renfield."
Chpt 21grave = serious and solemn
- Van Helsing said gravely, "Go on, friend Arthur."
Chpt 21gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- When Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward had come back from seeing poor Renfield, we went gravely into what was to be done.
Chpt 22
- Then Van Helsing turned and said gravely.
Chpt 22
- So gravely that I could not help feeling that he was in some way inspired, and was stating things outside himself.
Chpt 22gravely = solemnly (seriously)
- He looked at her gravely for a minute and then said sorrowfully, "Because my dear, dear Madam Mina, now more than ever must we find him even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell!"
Chpt 23gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realize that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.
Chpt 24
- Dr. Van Helsing said gravely, "Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise."
Chpt 24
- I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!†
Chpt 25
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