All 8 Uses of
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- "I don't know yet" was all Doc Halliday answered, and his young face looked so grave I felt a queer squeeze in my stomach.
Chpt 1.grave = serious and solemn
- She shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 9.
- "I've never done anything like this before, you know," she told me gravely.†
Chpt 11.
- "Captain," the chaperone began, holding the bone out before her as if it were the most gruesome and gore-soaked thing imaginable, "to have my charge and your cabin boy cavorting about the forest is quite bad enough, but now I find that they've been grave digging!"†
Chpt 13.
- "We haven't been grave digging, Marjorie," Kate said with a disdainful toss of her head.†
Chpt 13.
- And what's all this about grave digging?"†
Chpt 14.
- These were the wretches who had murdered our officer, who'd been happy to leave us to a watery grave after their ship slit us stem to stern.†
Chpt 16.
- She nodded gravely. “He was in a lot of pain, and he still kept going. I don't like thinking about it.”
Chpt 21. *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
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