All 37 Uses of

grave

in

Go Tell It on the Mountain

And she smiled strangely, a smile less gravely impersonal.†
Chpt 2.2

gravely = in a serious and solemn manner

"Yes," said Elisha, with a grave, sweet smile, "that's the Man you got to call on."
Chpt 3.1 *

grave = serious and solemn

You just better pray God to stop him before somebody puts another knife in him and puts him in his grave.†
Chpt 1.1

He had caused the blind to see, the lame to walk, and He had raised dead men from the grave.†
Chpt 2.1

Her mother, in rotting rags and filling the room with the stink of the grave, stood over her to curse the daughter who had denied her on her deathbed.†
Chpt 2.1

And Florence, who was beautiful but did not look with favor on any of the black men who lusted after her, not wishing to exchange her mother's cabin for one of theirs and to raise their children and so go down, toil-blasted, into as it were a common grave, reinforced in Deborah the terrible belief against which no evidence had ever presented itself: that all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs.†
Chpt 2.1

She thought of her mother as already in the grave; and she would not let herself be strangled by the hands of the dead.†
Chpt 2.1

If the Lord had ever allowed her to cross that swelling ocean she would have gone, among all the millions buried there, to seek out his grave.†
Chpt 2.1

To go down into the grave, unwashed, unforgiven, was to go down into the pit forever, where terrors awaited him greater than any the earth, for all her age and groaning, had ever borne.†
Chpt 2.2

She said nothing, and she did not smile, only looked at him with her grave kindness, now a little questioning, a little shy.†
Chpt 2.2

With the Lord's help," he said, with a gravity so extreme that it was almost hostility.†
Chpt 2.2

She turned in the door and faced him; this was the last time she really looked at him, and he would carry that look to his grave.†
Chpt 2.2

Yet in the very grave he would hate him; his father would but have changed conditions, he would be John's father still.†
Chpt 2.2

He had said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh.†
Chpt 2.3

John looked with a child's impenetrable gravity into the preacher's face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind and would answer when he had thought it out.†
Chpt 2.3

and she would carry to the grave the memory of his grace and humility at that moment, "will you pray?"†
Chpt 2.3

Into a dungeon deeper than Hell, into a madness louder than the grave?†
Chpt 3.1

he knew it was the grave, it was so cold and silent, and he moved in icy mist?†
Chpt 3.1

But she, alone, of all that company, looked at him and signified that there was no speech in the grave.†
Chpt 3.1

In this murmur that filled the grave, like a thousand wings beating on the air, he recognized a sound that he had always heard.†
Chpt 3.1

It was a sound of rage and weeping which filled the grave, rage and weeping from time set free, but bound now in eternity; rage that had no language, weeping with no voice?†
Chpt 3.1

There was no help or healing in the grave, no answer in the darkness, no speech from all that company.†
Chpt 3.1

No, the fire could not hurt them, and yes, the lion's jaws were stopped; the serpent was not their master, the grave was —not their resting-place, the earth was not their home.†
Chpt 3.1

They were encompassed with a very cloud of witnesses: Judas, who had betrayed the Lord; Thomas, who had doubted Him; Peter, who had trembled at the crowing of a cock; Stephen, who had been stoned; Paul, who had been bound; i:he blind man crying in the dusty road, the dead man rising from i:he grave.†
Chpt 3.1

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