All 50 Uses of
grave
in
Lonesome Dove
- Lorena looked more beautiful than ever, but it was a grave beauty since news of the death had come.
Chpt 99-100 *grave = serious and solemn
- He said it with as much gravity as he could muster, since Xavier appreciated a certain formality.†
Chpt 3-4
- If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.†
Chpt 5-6
- "If I dig a grave it will be yours," he said simply.†
Chpt 5-6
- While they were having their cry, Deets and Pea got shovels from the wagon and dug a grave, back from the river a hundred yards, beside a live oak tree.†
Chpt 34-35
- Then they cut off part of one of the wagon sheets, wrapped the dead boy in it and carried him in the wagon to the grave.†
Chpt 34-35
- One by one the cowboys mounted and went off to the herd, many of them taking a quick last look at the muddy grave under the tree.†
Chpt 34-35
- He was so weak from shock, it seemed he might not be able to, but he finally got on his horse and rode off, looking back until the grave was hidden by the tall gray grass.†
Chpt 34-35
- "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said.†
Chpt 38-39
- He hoped it had—he had not been able to rid himself of the memory of the muddy grave they had put Sean in, back by the Nueces.†
Chpt 46-47
- When they rejoined the main herd it was on the move, the grave somewhere behind on the muddy plain.†
Chpt 62-63
- "The consequences of that would be that somebody would have to dig your grave," he said.†
Chpt 64-65
- He didn't know where the girl had belonged, though it wasn't in a grave on the Canadian.†
Chpt 64-65
- Call went over and told Pea Eye and Newt to start digging the grave—he wanted to get started after the horsethieves as soon as it was light enough to track.†
Chpt 72-73
- Augustus was troubled by the fact that he could find nothing with which to mark Wilbarger's grave—the plains and the riverbank were bare.†
Chpt 72-73
- He gave up and came to the grave just as Pea Eye and Deets were covering the man with dirt.†
Chpt 72-73
- "It's better than nothing," Augustus said as he sat the skull on the grave.†
Chpt 72-73
- He'd laugh right out loud if he knew he had the skull of a buffalo cow for a grave marker.†
Chpt 72-73
- Pea Eye dug a shallow grave with a little shovel they had brought.†
Chpt 74-74
- They rolled the remains in the grave and covered them, while the buzzards watched.†
Chpt 74-74
- They cut the men down and buried them in one grave.†
Chpt 74-74
- Go dig him a grave, will you, Pea?†
Chpt 74-74
- Call broke up the tailgate and made a little marker for Jake's grave, scratching his name on it with a pocketknife by the light of the old man's lantern.†
Chpt 74-74
- They had been so sure he would die that they even dug the grave, up on the knoll east of the house where their three boys were buried: Jim and Jeff and Johnny, the three deaths Clara felt had turned her heart to stone: she hoped for stone, anyway, for stone wouldn't suffer from such losses.†
Chpt 75-76
- It was a terrible winter, the ground frozen so deep there was no way to dig a grave.†
Chpt 75-76
- She had gray eyes and she turned them on him with sudden gravity.†
Chpt 77-78
- The sun had risen, and everyone was busy with what they were doing, Mr. Gus eating, the Captain and Lippy digging the grave.†
Chpt 89-90
- Needle Nelson offered to help dig the grave, for Deets had been the man who finally turned the Texas bull the day the bull got after him.†
Chpt 89-90
- Lippy offered to help with the grave-digging, and Call let him.†
Chpt 89-90
- It was the task that usually got assigned to Deets himself, grave-digging.†
Chpt 89-90
- Po Campo led the team down to the grave and Deets was put in and quickly covered.†
Chpt 89-90
- He came back from the grave, got a big hammer and knocked a board loose from the side of the wagon.†
Chpt 89-90
- He took the board and carried it down to the grave.†
Chpt 89-90
- The rest of the day he sat alone by Deets's grave, carving something into it with his knife.†
Chpt 89-90
- Captain Call was hammering the long board deep into the dirt by the grave.†
Chpt 89-90
- They walked down to the grave.†
Chpt 89-90
- Two or three of the cowboys trailed back to the grave, a little tentative, not sure they were invited.†
Chpt 89-90
- Augustus made a loop of the ribbon and put the loop over the grave board and tied it tightly.†
Chpt 89-90
- "I won the pot, Ma," she said, and then saw by the grave set of Clara's face that something was wrong.†
Chpt 91-92
- Clara and Lorena and the girls sat with the body all night, while Cholo dug a grave on the ridge above the barn where the boys were buried.†
Chpt 91-92
- She sat down on the mound of dirt beside him and looked into the open grave.†
Chpt 91-92
- "Sometimes it seems like grave-digging is all we do," she said.†
Chpt 91-92
- She'd allow you a grave in Nebraska, I'm sure.†
Chpt 95-96
- Take the sign back and stick it over my grave.†
Chpt 95-96
- There seemed to be no grave danger from Indians or anything else.†
Chpt 99-100
- Take him to the ridge and I'll have July and Dish get a grave dug.†
Chpt 101-102
- Call dug the grave with a little hand shovel.†
Chpt 101-102
- In his condition it took most of a day; at one point he grew so weak that he sat down in the grave to rest, sweat pouring off him—if there had been anyone else to shovel he would have been inclined to be buried there himself.†
Chpt 101-102
- It was clear that the grave marker puzzled them.†
Chpt 101-102
- Not having seen him put Augustus under, they were not sure whether they were looking at a grave, or just a sign.†
Chpt 101-102
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 rare to warrant focus) 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