All 50 Uses of
grave
in
The American
- But Mr. Newman, unlike his companion, read the name with perfect gravity; all French names to him were equally droll.†
Chpt 1
- He was not shy, and so far as awkwardness proceeds from a struggle with shyness, he was not awkward; grave, attentive, submissive, often silent, he was simply swimming in a sort of rapture of respect.†
Chpt 3
- "Really?" he asked, very gravely.†
Chpt 3
- Christopher Newman stood gravely silent, while his native penetration admonished him.†
Chpt 3
- The other took the card from his hand, read it in a rapid glance, looked again at Newman from head to foot, hesitated a moment, and then said, gravely but urbanely, "Madame de Cintre is not at home."†
Chpt 3
- "No," said Newman gravely, "I don't believe it."†
Chpt 4
- "You are very happy," said Mademoiselle Noemie, gravely.†
Chpt 4
- The young man from Dorchester accused Newman of a fault which he considered very grave, and which he did his best to avoid: what he would have called a want of "moral reaction."†
Chpt 5
- "I don't believe it!" said Newman, very gravely.†
Chpt 6
- "Yes, sir," she answered, gravely.†
Chpt 6
- Newman was struck with the gravity of her tone; he threw back his head and began to look round the room again.†
Chpt 6
- Bellegarde shook his head with sudden gravity.†
Chpt 7
- She looks like a statue which had failed as stone, resigned itself to its grave defects, and come to life as flesh and blood, to wear white capes and long trains.†
Chpt 8
- "Is she grave or gay?" asked Newman.†
Chpt 8
- There is gravity in her gayety, and gayety in her gravity.†
Chpt 8
- There is gravity in her gayety, and gayety in her gravity.†
Chpt 8
- This was said by Bellegarde with extreme gravity, looking straight at Newman, and with an eye that betokened no mental reservation; or that, at least, almost betokened none.†
Chpt 8
- "For my mother," said Bellegarde, now with intense gravity, "I have the highest admiration.†
Chpt 8
- "I am afraid it will be hard," said Newman, gravely.†
Chpt 8
- "I am seeing you," said Madame de Cintre, slowly and gravely, "because I promised my brother I would."†
Chpt 9
- Of course she was joking, but there was always something ironical in her jokes, as there was always something jocular in her gravity.†
Chpt 10
- "You ought to show more of your shoulders behind," he said very gravely.†
Chpt 10
- "No," said Newman, gravely, still in his bad French, "you must not talk to Mademoiselle Nioche, because you say discouraging things.†
Chpt 11
- "Urbain," said Valentin, very gravely, "I am afraid that Mr. Newman does not quite realize the change.†
Chpt 12
- Her visitors, coming in often while Newman sat there, found a tall, lean, silent man in a half-lounging attitude, who laughed out sometimes when no one had meant to be droll, and remained grave in the presence of calculated witticisms, for appreciation of which he had apparently not the proper culture.†
Chpt 13
- "I have noticed it with pleasure, sir," said the ancient tire-woman, gravely.†
Chpt 13
- "You are too good-natured," said Madame de Cintre gravely.†
Chpt 13
- Valentin was on the threshold; he looked back a moment with a face that had turned grave.†
Chpt 14
- Valentin de Bellegarde's announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father's domicile and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave a catastrophe, received a practical commentary in the fact that M. Nioche was slow to seek another interview with his late pupil.
Chpt 15grave = serious and solemn
- "As quiet as the grave," he whispered softly.†
Chpt 15
- "My experience of business," said M. Nioche, gravely.†
Chpt 15
- There was a smile in her gravity as she made this declaration, and it deepened as she added, "He is our seventh cousin, you know, and blood is thicker than water.†
Chpt 16
- These observations seemed to make Madame de Cintre rather grave.†
Chpt 16
- The marquis with supernatural gravity mentioned to him the name of each, while the gentleman who bore it bowed; they were all what are called in France beaux noms.†
Chpt 16
- She hesitated, and then she uttered a grave "No! he's a very honest little fellow."
Chpt 16 *grave = serious and solemn
- Valentin ceased to laugh; he looked grave.†
Chpt 17
- "Something very grave has happened," she said.†
Chpt 18
- He did not smile, but he looked softly grave.†
Chpt 18
- He took off his hat, looking very grave, and pronounced Newman's name.†
Chpt 19
- Valentin's late second opened his eyes, and shook his head up and down two or three times, gravely, with a little flute-like whistle.†
Chpt 19
- At last the bishop's nephew came in with a toilet in which an ingenious attempt at harmony with the peculiar situation was visible, and with a gravity tempered by a decent deference to the best breakfast that the Croix Helvetique had ever set forth.†
Chpt 19
- Newman walked as far as the village church, and went into the small grave-yard beside it, where he sat down and looked at the awkward tablets which were planted around.†
Chpt 19
- "I'm glad you think I have been wronged," said Newman, with that oddly humorous accent with which he often uttered words of the gravest meaning.†
Chpt 20
- Mrs. Bread dropped her wrinkled eyelids as if she were curtseying; but the curtsey stopped there; the occasion was too grave.†
Chpt 21
- "Three days afterwards he was in his grave," said Mrs. Bread, sententiously.†
Chpt 22
- His lamp was not lit, and as her large, grave face gazed at him through the light dusk from under the shadow of her ample bonnet, he felt the incongruity of such a person presenting herself as a servant.
Chpt 23grave = serious and solemn
- When I saw you at my mother-in-law's ball, taking it all so easily, I felt as if you were dancing on your grave.†
Chpt 24
- But M. de Bellegarde's gravity held good.†
Chpt 24
- I feel like a widower—and a widower who has not even the consolation of going to stand beside the grave of his wife—who has not the right to wear so much mourning as a weed on his hat.†
Chpt 25
- "BUT," she continued, laying her hand upon Newman's arm and hazarding a grave smile, "it was the highest flight ever taken by a tolerably bold imagination!"
Chpt 25grave = serious and solemn
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