All 16 Uses of
grave
in
The Good Earth
- "Raise him," said the old lady gravely to the gateman, "these obeisances are not necessary.†
Chpt 1
- The old lady looked at him carefully and with perfect gravity and made as though she would have spoken, except that her hand closed upon the pipe which a slave had been tending for her and at once she seemed to forget him.†
Chpt 1
- Now, however, staggering in with feet still unsteady with babyhood, he stared at this new child beside his mother, and seeming to comprehend with his grave eyes that another had his place, he allowed himself without protest to be placed in his grandfather's bed.†
Chpt 6
- Then he took the roll of matting, and going as far from the house as he had strength, he laid the burden against the hollowed side of an old grave.†
Chpt 9
- This grave stood among many others, worn down and no longer known or cared for, on a hillside just at the border of Wang Lung's western field.†
Chpt 9
- Out to the hills and the grave lands those who had begged now could go to dig the small green weeds, dandelions and shepherd's purse that thrust up feeble new leaves, and it was not necessary as it had been to snatch at vegetables here and there.†
Chpt 14
- But with all Wang Lung's urging Ching to eat and eat well, the man still put no flesh on his bones, remaining always a small, spare, lean man of great gravity.†
Chpt 17
- Thus as the days went on and he lived only to pass the day until the evening came, he would not look at the grave faces of O-lan and of the children, suddenly sober in their play when he approached, nor even at his old father who peered at him and asked, "What is this sickness that turns you full of evil temper and your skin as yellow as clay?"†
Chpt 19
- But when he had gone half-way and reached as far as the small temple he sat down beside the road on a hillock of grass that was an old grave, now forgotten, and he plucked a grass and twisted it in his fingers and he meditated.†
Chpt 24
- But when Wang Lung looked at her thus closely he saw the marks of tears on her cheeks, and her face was a shade too pale and grave for her years, and he drew her to him by her little hand and he said, "Now why have you wept?"†
Chpt 25
- He put forth a hand as dried and yellowed as an ape's hand and he felt for her pulse, and then after he had held it for a long time, he shook his head again gravely, saying, "The spleen is enlarged and the liver diseased.†
Chpt 25
- Wang Lung did not speak with the maiden, since it was not fitting, but he inclined his head gravely when she bowed, and he was pleased with her, for she knew her duty and she moved about the house quietly with her eyes downcast.†
Chpt 26 *
- And Wang Lung told his son that night what had come about, and the young man was grave and he said, "We must send the maid into the town to the home of her betrothed; even if the merchant Liu says it is a year too evil for wedding we must send her, lest we cannot keep her virgin with this hot tiger in the house."†
Chpt 27
- And he saw a tall and slender lad, who was neither his father nor his mother, except that he had his mother's gravity and silence.†
Chpt 30
- What hour his uncle died Wang Lung did not know, except that he lay dead one evening when the serving woman went in to take a bowl of soup, and Wang Lung buried him on a bitter cold day when the wind blew the snow over the land in clouds, and he put the coffin in the family enclosure beside his father, only a little lower than his father's grave, but above the place where his own was to be.†
Chpt 30
- He could not forget his youngest son, how he had looked standing tall and straight and his black brows drawn together in the gravity of his youth, and he could not forget the maid.†
Chpt 33
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