All 50 Uses of
grave
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- "Is that true, sir?" asked the old man gravely.†
Chpt 1gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- "You've lately lost your father?" he went on more gravely.†
Chpt 2
- "Now you're making fun of me," the girl answered rather gravely.†
Chpt 5
- The old man had been gravely ill in the spring, and the doctors had whispered to Ralph that another attack would be less easy to deal with.†
Chpt 7
- "She has a great sense of duty," said Isabel gravely.†
Chpt 10
- "Don't say that, please," said Lord Warburton very gravely.†
Chpt 12
- "I'm very glad to hear it," said the young man gravely.†
Chpt 16
- "I thank you then," said Caspar Goodwood gravely.†
Chpt 16
- And her companion looked at her gravely.†
Chpt 19
- The invitation from Lady Pensil, for mysterious reasons, had never arrived; and poor Mr. Bantling himself, with all his friendly ingenuity, had been unable to explain so grave a dereliction on the part of a missive that had obviously been sent.
Chpt 19grave = serious and solemn
- "I differ with Miss Stackpole," Ralph went on more gravely.†
Chpt 21gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- At the same time he was clearly much occupied with their quiet charge, and while she turned her back to him his eyes rested gravely on her slim, small figure.†
Chpt 22
- "You don't care," said Madame Merle gravely.†
Chpt 22
- "You say things to me that no one else does," said Madame Merle gravely, yet without bitterness.†
Chpt 25
- Pansy reflected a moment, turning gravely from one of the persons mentioned to the other.†
Chpt 25
- Isabel was not struck with the oddity of his saying this gravely; she was thinking that the pleasantest incident of her life—so it pleased her to qualify these too few days in Rome, which she might musingly have likened to the figure of some small princess of one of the ages of dress overmuffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that it took pages or historians to hold up—that this felicity was coming to an end.†
Chpt 29
- Isabel gravely asked.†
Chpt 29
- But all the same I can't help feeling that you're running a grave risk.
Chpt 34 *grave = serious and solemn
- Marriage is always a grave risk, and his risk's as grave as mine.
Chpt 34
- Marriage is always a grave risk, and his risk's as grave as mine.
Chpt 34
- "The inducement's great," said Isabel gravely—inscrutably, as he afterwards, to himself, called it; and she gave him, straight in the eyes, a look which was also inscrutable.†
Chpt 37gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- "Perhaps I have," his companion answered rather gravely.†
Chpt 39
- "Ah no," said Lord Warburton gravely; "none!"†
Chpt 39
- Isabel shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 40
- "It's true—there's nothing impossible," she returned at last, gravely and more gently.†
Chpt 40
- "Oh," said Isabel gravely, "you're much too considerate of me."†
Chpt 43
- Isabel shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 45
- "I think Mr. Rosier looks like one!" she remarked very gravely.†
Chpt 45
- "Take care what you say," said Isabel very gravely.†
Chpt 49
- He spoke gravely and almost gently; the accent of sarcasm had dropped out of his tone.†
Chpt 51
- "He will, though," Isabel answered gravely.†
Chpt 53
- His companion, measuring the length of the lawn beside him, was a person of quite a different pattern, who, although he might have excited grave curiosity, would not, like the other, have provoked you to wish yourself, almost blindly, in his place.†
Chpt 1
- She had listened to him attentively, with a smile on her lips, but with a certain gravity in her eyes.†
Chpt 5
- These words were uttered with an indefinable sound which startled the girl; it struck her as the prelude to something grave: she had heard the sound before and she recognised it.†
Chpt 9
- This time her companion was grave.†
Chpt 11
- His gravity made her feel equally grave, and she showed it by again requesting him to drop the subject for the present.†
Chpt 12
- His gravity made her feel equally grave, and she showed it by again requesting him to drop the subject for the present.†
Chpt 12
- At a glance from his companion, however, he became grave, and to prove it went on: "You want to see life—you'll be hanged if you don't, as the young men say."†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly, none the less, his gravity returned.†
Chpt 17
- "I haven't always been happy," said Madame Merle, smiling still, but with a mock gravity, as if she were telling a child a secret.†
Chpt 19
- At table she was grave and silent; but her solemnity was not an attitude—Isabel could see it was a conviction.†
Chpt 19
- The girl was pale and grave—an effect not mitigated by her deeper mourning; but the smile of her brightest moments came into her face as she saw Madame Merle, who went forward, laid her hand on our heroine's shoulder and, after looking at her a moment, kissed her as if she were returning the kiss she had received from her at Gardencourt.†
Chpt 20
- There was something grave and strong in the place; it looked somehow as if, once you were in, you would need an act of energy to get out.†
Chpt 24
- Mr. Osmond looked grave.†
Chpt 26
- As quiet as the grave.†
Chpt 27
- She said nothing for a moment, but then met the light question with a disproportionate gravity.†
Chpt 28
- Grave she found herself, and positively more weighted, as by the experience of the lapse of the year she had spent in seeing the world.†
Chpt 31
- Caspar, however, remained sternly grave.†
Chpt 32
- There have been moments when I should like to go and kneel down by your father's grave: he did perhaps a better thing than he knew when he put it into my power to marry a poor man—a man who has borne his poverty with such dignity, with such indifference.†
Chpt 34
- He looked extremely grave for some moments and then said, wholly without the flourish of gallantry but in a tone of extreme distinctness, "Of course if you're going to-morrow I'll go too, as I may be of assistance to you."†
Chpt 44
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