All 18 Uses of
grave
in
The Heritage of the Desert
- There's one grave the Indians never named; it's three thousand feet deep.†
Chpt 1
- Don't take him—unless you want another grave for your cemetery.†
Chpt 2
- Here's the grave of Mescal's father, a Spaniard.†
Chpt 4
- Well, a grave was a grave, wherever it lay.†
Chpt 4
- Well, a grave was a grave, wherever it lay.†
Chpt 4
- Snap had been furious, his father grave, Mescal tearful and ashamed.†
Chpt 11
- "Son, this is the Sabbath," called Father Naab, gravely.†
Chpt 11
- "If she went into the Painted Desert—" a grave shake of his shaggy head completed his sentence.
Chpt 12 *grave = serious and solemn
- The Mormon put forth all his skill in surgery and medicine to save the life of his son's wife, but he admitted that he had grave misgivings as to her recovery.†
Chpt 13
- He had loved it for its color, its change, its secrecy; he loved it now because it had not been a grave for Mescal, but a home.†
Chpt 14
- He remembered Eschtah's tribute to the wilderness of painted wastes: "There is the grave of the Navajo, and no one knows the trail to the place of his sleep!†
Chpt 14
- Mescal led Hare under the cottonwoods and pointed to the Indian's grave, now green with grass.†
Chpt 16
- Mescal shed tears at the grave of the faithful peon.†
Chpt 16
- The full present was sufficient for Hare, and his joy bubbled over, bringing smiles to August's grave face.†
Chpt 17
- He laid Dene in grave thirty-one.†
Chpt 18
- It was the grave that the outlaw had promised as the last resting-place of Dene's spy.†
Chpt 18
- To-day the white man laid another son in his grave.†
Chpt 18
- The many members of Naab's family and the grave Navajos formed an attentive circle around them.†
Chpt 21
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