All 26 Uses
grave
in
The Book Thief
(Edited)
- "I hate the Führer," she said.
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"You can say that in our house," he said, looking gravely at Liesel's cheek. "But you never say it on the street, at school, at the BDM, never!"p. 116.6 *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner - Mama was grave. Her plump figure glowed with worry.
p. 197.6grave = serious and solemn
- There was such gravity between them, and a lot of failed decision-making.
p. 209.2gravity = importance (weightiness) or seriousness
- I was carrying the charred soul of a teenager when I looked gravely up at what was now a sulfuric sky.
p. 337.1gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- the grave digger's handbook featuring: himmel street—the art of saumensching—an ironfisted woman—a kiss attempt—jesse owens— sandpaper—the smell of friendship—a heavyweight champion—and the mother of all watschens C#1 ARRIVAL ON HIMMEL STREET That last time.
p. 17.1grave = burial spot
- Witnesses included a priest and two shivering grave diggers.
p. 22.9
- A pair of grave diggers.
p. 22.9
- Standing to Liesel's left, the grave diggers were rubbing their hands together and whining about the snow and the current digging conditions.
p. 23.5
- Buried beneath the folded layer of clothes in that suitcase was a small black book, which, for all we know, a fourteen-year-old grave digger in a nameless town had probably spent the last few hours looking for.
p. 28.9
- I'm sure he would never have suspected the girl, and yet, there it was—a black book with silver words written against the ceiling of her clothes: THE GRAVE DIGGER'S HANDBOOK
p. 29.6
- A Twelve-Step Guide to Grave-Digging Success
p. 29.7
- On her first night with the Hubermanns, she had hidden her last link to him—The Grave Digger's Handbook—under her mattress, and occasionally she would pull it out and hold it.
p. 38.7
- Then he read the title, with concentration, aloud: "The Grave Digger's Handbook."
p. 64.2
- Looking back, Liesel could tell exactly what her papa was thinking when he scanned the first page of The Grave Digger's Handbook.
p. 66.3
- This grave digging was serious.
p. 66.8
- At home, she was well into reading The Grave Digger's Handbook with Papa.
p. 75.3
- It was something from The Grave Digger's Handbook.
p. 77.8
- Nearing Himmel Street, in a hurry of thoughts, a culmination of misery swept over her—the failed recital of The Grave Digger's Handbook, the demolition of her family, her nightmares, the humiliation of the day—and she crouched in the gutter and wept.
p. 80.3
- Finishing The Grave Digger's Handbook .
p. 85.9
- She gulped the air until she was ready, and they began reading from the eleventh chapter of The Grave Digger's Handbook.
p. 86.2
- The last passage looked like this: We at the Bayern Cemetery Association hope that we have informed and entertained you in the workings, safety measures, and duties of grave digging.
p. 87.1
- First, he sees the girl's books: The Grave Digger's Handbook, Faust the Dog, The Lighthouse, and now The Shoulder Shrug.
p. 127.4
- Also, each night before bed, she would open a fail-safe guide to grave digging.
p. 246.8
- It was the sound of a grave.
p. 259.9
- So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.
p. 303.9
- She'd also tried The Shoulder Shrug, even The Grave Digger's Handbook, but none of it seemed quite right.
p. 325.4 *
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 too 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