All 29 Uses of
grave
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- His companion, measuring the length of the lawn beside him, was a person of quite a different pattern, who, although he might have excited grave curiosity, would not, like the other, have provoked you to wish yourself, almost blindly, in his place.†
Chpt 1
- "Is that true, sir?" asked the old man gravely.†
Chpt 1
- "You've lately lost your father?" he went on more gravely.†
Chpt 2
- "Now you're making fun of me," the girl answered rather gravely.†
Chpt 5
- She had listened to him attentively, with a smile on her lips, but with a certain gravity in her eyes.†
Chpt 5
- The old man had been gravely ill in the spring, and the doctors had whispered to Ralph that another attack would be less easy to deal with.†
Chpt 7
- These words were uttered with an indefinable sound which startled the girl; it struck her as the prelude to something grave: she had heard the sound before and she recognised it.†
Chpt 9
- "She has a great sense of duty," said Isabel gravely.†
Chpt 10
- This time her companion was grave.†
Chpt 11
- "You'll live to marry a better woman than I." "Don't say that, please," said Lord Warburton very gravely.†
Chpt 12
- His gravity made her feel equally grave, and she showed it by again requesting him to drop the subject for the present.†
Chpt 12
- His gravity made her feel equally grave, and she showed it by again requesting him to drop the subject for the present.†
Chpt 12
- At a glance from his companion, however, he became grave, and to prove it went on: "You want to see life—you'll be hanged if you don't, as the young men say."†
Chpt 15
- "I'm very glad to hear it," said the young man gravely.†
Chpt 16
- "I thank you then," said Caspar Goodwood gravely.†
Chpt 16
- Suddenly, none the less, his gravity returned.†
Chpt 17
- "I haven't always been happy," said Madame Merle, smiling still, but with a mock gravity, as if she were telling a child a secret.†
Chpt 19
- And her companion looked at her gravely.†
Chpt 19
- At table she was grave and silent; but her solemnity was not an attitude—Isabel could see it was a conviction.†
Chpt 19
- The invitation from Lady Pensil, for mysterious reasons, had never arrived; and poor Mr. Bantling himself, with all his friendly ingenuity, had been unable to explain so grave a dereliction on the part of a missive that had obviously been sent.
Chpt 19 *grave = serious and solemn
- The girl was pale and grave—an effect not mitigated by her deeper mourning; but the smile of her brightest moments came into her face as she saw Madame Merle, who went forward, laid her hand on our heroine's shoulder and, after looking at her a moment, kissed her as if she were returning the kiss she had received from her at Gardencourt.†
Chpt 20
- "I differ with Miss Stackpole," Ralph went on more gravely.†
Chpt 21
- At the same time he was clearly much occupied with their quiet charge, and while she turned her back to him his eyes rested gravely on her slim, small figure.†
Chpt 22
- "You don't care," said Madame Merle gravely.†
Chpt 22
- There was something grave and strong in the place; it looked somehow as if, once you were in, you would need an act of energy to get out.†
Chpt 24
- "You say things to me that no one else does," said Madame Merle gravely, yet without bitterness.†
Chpt 25
- Pansy reflected a moment, turning gravely from one of the persons mentioned to the other.†
Chpt 25
- Mr. Osmond looked grave.†
Chpt 26
- As quiet as the grave.†
Chpt 27
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