All 50 Uses of
grave
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- "I do remember," said the undertaker gravely.†
Chpt 2gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- He had a famous, calm, deeply concerned face, shaven, ashen, lean, lit gravely now and then by humor.†
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- "Yes," said Gant gravely, "I was sorry to hear of that."†
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- Luke looked nervously and gravely from his father to the negress, fidgeting from one big foot to the other.†
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- Frowning gravely, he leaned upon the counter with feet crossed, reading, in a somewhat illiterate monotone, what they had written.†
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- "Come here!" said Margaret gravely.†
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- In another moment, with the help of the two men on the driver's seat, he had lowered the long wicker basket gently, and vanished, quietly, gravely, into the fragrant gloom of his establishment.†
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- He thought carefully and gravely.†
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- Louise looked, and felt the garter gravely with a plump hand.†
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- John Dorsey Leonard looked gravely.†
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- The town, in its first white shirting of Spring, sat on the turfy banks, and looked down gravely upon the bosky little comedy of errors; the encircling mountains, and the gods thereon, looked down upon the slightly larger theatre of the town; and, figuratively, from mountains that looked down on mountains, the last stronghold of philosophy, the author of this chronicle looked down on everything.†
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- "I think so," he said gravely.†
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- Gravely, Hugh Barton held a match for him.†
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- "But I think it's a pity, Mr. Gant," said the professor, gravely, "that you're willing to slide along this way.†
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- Thereafter, when he read, faltering prettily here and there over a phrase, until his instructor should come to his aid, the satanic professor listened gravely and attentively, nodding his head in approval from time to time, and saying, with great satisfaction, when he had finished: "Good, Mr. Gant.†
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- In a moment, he went on gravely: "You're the last hope, 'Gene.†
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- Several ducks, scarcely disturbed by their crossing, waddled up out of the clear water and regarded them gravely, like little children in white choir aprons.†
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- "Well," said Eliza gravely, plucking at her chin, "I want you to be a good boy and study hard, son.†
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- "Son," said Eliza gravely, balancing her wine-glass, "I don't want you ever to acquire a taste for it."†
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- Ben prowled along, greeting the merchants with a grave scowl, leaning his skull against their round skulls of practicality, across their counters—a phantom soliciting advertisement in a quiet monotone.
Chpt 3grave = serious and solemn
- Gravely, earnestly, he wrestled with his soul, mouthing with gusto the inspiring jargon of the crusade.†
Chpt 3gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- If it did, they said gravely, they would say nothing more.†
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- The fear had gone out of his eyes: above his gasping he looked gravely at her, scowling, with the old puzzled child's stare.†
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- There are a great many things I'd like to do over again," said Eliza gravely.†
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- She laughed gently, patting his hand, peering comically at him with her bleared oaken eyes, and swaying back and forth gravely, with alcoholic dignity.†
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- She turned and started unsteadily across the street, holding one hand out gravely, for balance.†
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- (She is alone, it said, and so are you.) And when she purses up her mouth and stares, so grave and thoughtful, she is like a little child.
Chpt 3 *grave = serious and solemn
- The old head listens gravely above the ironic intake of their breath.†
Chpt 3gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- "Well, son," she said gravely.†
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- He would sit at night, oblivious of her tirade, gravely chewing his long cigar, absorbed in his charts, or in a late issue of System or of The American Magazine.†
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- Son," she said more gravely, with a sudden change from her tremulous banter, "it worries me to see you walk like that.†
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- Or, he would quote a few stanzas of Gray's Elegy, using that encyclopaedia of stock melancholy with rather indefinite application: "—Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave."†
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- He saw plainly by this time that their poverty, the threat of the poorhouse, the lurid references to the pauper's grave, belonged to the insensate mythology of hoarding; anger smouldered like a brand in him at their sorry greed.†
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- He dreamed of himself as the redemptive hero, saving her in an hour of great danger, making her penitent with grave reproof, accepting purely the love she offered.†
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- The self-respecting negro, J. H. Jackson, stood in his square vegetable-stall, attended by his two grave-faced sons, and his spectacled businesslike daughter.†
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- At this moment, Simon, self-contained, distinguished and grave in his manner, descended the steps with Mr. Gilroy and Mr. Flannagan, his companions.†
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- Accursed and bloody monster that it is, it will not be content until it has sucked out my life-blood, sold the roof over my head, and sent me out to the pauper's grave to perish.†
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- His face was sad and grave.†
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- When she was drunk, her voice was soft, low, and fuzzy, she laughed uncertainly, mildly, and walked with careful alcoholic gravity.†
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- Guy Doak gazed solemnly at Eugene, with a forked hand stroking his grave pallid face.†
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- "Pap" Rheinhart turned his wry neck down on the boy with grave dry humor.†
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- "That," observed the Commoner with grave humor, "is what I thought the Great American People said to me on three occasions."†
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- "I want to tell you, son," said Eliza, becoming grave, "you've got to learn the value of a dollar or you'll never have a roof to call your own.†
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- He would excite her by uttering, in grave respectful tones, honestly, matter-of-factly, the most erotic suggestions.†
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- With equal slow gravity he greeted each one.†
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- He got up, and reeled out of the alien presences of light and warmth in the kitchen; he went out into the hall where a dim light burned and the high walls gave back their grave-damp chill.†
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- But as the horns blared, the old ghoul-fantasy of death returned, the grave slabs made him think of table-cloths: he felt as if he were taking part in some obscene feast.†
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- "Well, good-night, son," said Eliza slowly, with gravity.†
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- Dazed, half-dressed, he was roused by the grinding halt, and a moment later was looking out through the curtains into the grave faces of Luke and Hugh Barton.†
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- Horse Hines nodded with grave approval.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner