All 34 Uses of
grave
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- She said nothing for a moment, but then met the light question with a disproportionate gravity.†
Chpt 28
- Isabel was not struck with the oddity of his saying this gravely; she was thinking that the pleasantest incident of her life—so it pleased her to qualify these too few days in Rome, which she might musingly have likened to the figure of some small princess of one of the ages of dress overmuffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that it took pages or historians to hold up—that this felicity was coming to an end.†
Chpt 29
- Isabel gravely asked.†
Chpt 29
- Grave she found herself, and positively more weighted, as by the experience of the lapse of the year she had spent in seeing the world.†
Chpt 31
- Caspar, however, remained sternly grave.†
Chpt 32
- But all the same I can't help feeling that you're running a grave risk.
Chpt 34 *grave = serious and solemn
- Marriage is always a grave risk, and his risk's as grave as mine.
Chpt 34
- Marriage is always a grave risk, and his risk's as grave as mine.
Chpt 34
- There have been moments when I should like to go and kneel down by your father's grave: he did perhaps a better thing than he knew when he put it into my power to marry a poor man—a man who has borne his poverty with such dignity, with such indifference.†
Chpt 34
- "The inducement's great," said Isabel gravely—inscrutably, as he afterwards, to himself, called it; and she gave him, straight in the eyes, a look which was also inscrutable.†
Chpt 37
- "Perhaps I have," his companion answered rather gravely.†
Chpt 39
- "Ah no," said Lord Warburton gravely; "none!"†
Chpt 39
- Isabel shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 40
- "It's true—there's nothing impossible," she returned at last, gravely and more gently.†
Chpt 40
- "Oh," said Isabel gravely, "you're much too considerate of me."†
Chpt 43
- He looked extremely grave for some moments and then said, wholly without the flourish of gallantry but in a tone of extreme distinctness, "Of course if you're going to-morrow I'll go too, as I may be of assistance to you."†
Chpt 44
- Isabel shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 45
- She was afraid even of looking too grave, or at least too stern; she was afraid of causing alarm.†
Chpt 45
- "I think Mr. Rosier looks like one!" she remarked very gravely.†
Chpt 45
- He murmured a recognition, but left Isabel to say that it was a matter requiring grave consideration.†
Chpt 46
- To the Thursdays Mr. Goodwood came regularly, solemnly, rather early; he appeared to regard them with a good deal of gravity.†
Chpt 47
- "Take care what you say," said Isabel very gravely.†
Chpt 49
- Osmond asked with a face grave enough to suggest that he might have been.†
Chpt 49
- You're VERY bad," she added with gravity in her emphasis.†
Chpt 49
- Its gravity made her careful; she said nothing, and he went on.†
Chpt 51
- He spoke gravely and almost gently; the accent of sarcasm had dropped out of his tone.†
Chpt 51
- It had a gravity which checked his wife's quick emotion; the resolution with which she had entered the room found itself caught in a mesh of fine threads.†
Chpt 51
- My poor sister-in-law, in her grave, couldn't help herself, and the real mother, to save HER skin, renounced all visible property in the child."†
Chpt 51
- This gave her a peculiar gravity; she pretended not even to smile, and though Isabel saw that she was more than ever playing a part it seemed to her that on the whole the wonderful woman had never been so natural.†
Chpt 52
- Whereupon the gallant bachelor advanced with a smile—a smile tempered, however, by the gravity of the occasion.†
Chpt 53
- "He will, though," Isabel answered gravely.†
Chpt 53
- She stood herself at the edge of the grave, and Isabel stood beside her; the sexton himself had not a more practical interest in the scene than Mrs. Touchett.†
Chpt 55
- He was very grave, very proper and, for the first time since Isabel had known him, greeted her without a smile.†
Chpt 55
- He continued immitigably grave, either because he thought it becoming in a place over which death had just passed, or for more personal reasons.†
Chpt 55
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