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grave as in:  Her manner was grave.

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  • The Giver looked at him gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • Dr. Cruz smiled and shook the little girl's hand gravely.   (source)
  • one of his servants was gravely ill,   (source)
    gravely = seriously
  • Roy's mother looked gravely at Roy's father, then fixed her gaze upon the policeman.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • ...and they saluted him gravely, like gladiators greeting Caesar before they died for his entertainment.   (source)
  • The room became gravely silent. Everyone knew that Little Man was in big trouble for no one, but no one, ever called Little Man "Clayton Chester" unless she or he meant serious business.   (source)
    gravely = seriously (to a very noticeable degree)
  • One policeman is said to be in grave danger from concussion, having been struck on the head by a brick.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • She found an apron with a broad front pocket and carried the pup that way, thinking he might sit up, look around, but he just lay on his back and peered gravely at her.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • Four gives her a grave look.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "God—or idols," intoned the imam gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • But after several months of caring for him at home, the victim's wife apparently abandoned him and he became gravely ill.   (source)
    gravely = seriously
  • How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity?   (source)
    gravity = importance (weightiness)
  • He disobeyed my orders and made a grave mistake that has put our entire mission at risk.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • He turned to Alby then, and looked at him gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • And everyone, he said, giving them each a grave look, should behave as if he carries the real thing.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • Then, always sooner rather than later, she would see a small, grave face and grey eyes staring up at her from beneath a mop of mouse-colored hair, and then Bod and she would play—hide-and-seek, sometimes, or climbing things, or being quiet and watching the rabbits behind the old chapel.   (source)
  • "Probably," he said with a grave nod.   (source)
  • She lived in town, a stout, grave woman with a slight Teutonic edge to her speech, over Lottie Opsvig's apparel shop on Main.   (source)
  • Mrs Which's voice was grave.   (source)
  • "I'm afraid that won't work," Dr. Lucafont said gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • So far, things were utterly dull: nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel, there was no drama; a grave disappointment to all present, it seemed.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • Sending other men to do his office …. some might construe that as a grave insult.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "Never mind about that," said Brinker with his face responsibly grave.   (source)
  • But her voice is grave.   (source)
  • It was only on his fourth trip that he had found Ekwefi, and by then he had become gravely worried.   (source)
    gravely = seriously
  • "Deep in you, you think he know, he done grasped the significance of what it's all about? Deep in you?"
    "The significance?"
    "The gravity."   (source)
    gravity = importance (weightiness)
  • She nodded gravely. “He was in a lot of pain, and he still kept going. I don't like thinking about it.”   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • My mother's eyes gleamed with excitement, but she still gave Dad a grave look.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "Hail, Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • From behind the desk a grave-faced girl in a business suit gave me my key and told me that the old library had been booked for the exclusive use of our party.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • He says impurity is so grave a sin the Virgin Mary turns her face away and weeps.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • More grave nodding; they knew about nightmares.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "A true witch will always float. The innocent ones just sink like a stone." He was obviously paying her back for the morning's humiliation. But she was surprised to see that John Holbrook was not at all amused. His solemn young face was even more grave than before.   (source)
  • The news was delivered by a young policeman who wore a grave expression and carried his helmet in his hands.   (source)
  • Danforth is a grave man in his sixties, of some humor and sophistication that do not, however, interfere with an exact loyalty to his position and his cause.   (source)
  • But this grave little whimpering bird is out of a sorrowing nest. ... She has been through a lot, Gitl.   (source)
    grave = sad ("with a heavy heart")
  • "I hate them all, just by name," said Amy, a grave judge of anything trendy.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • I roused the five of you because we are all in grave danger.   (source)
    grave = serious (important)
  • "He's not a burglar," replied Mo, but as he stepped back from the window his face was so grave that Meggie's heart thudded faster than ever.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • To deny these rights is a grave offense against God, against the dignity of man.   (source)
  • It would be a grave error for you, for anyone in this town, really, to pursue this matter.   (source)
  • But they greeted me with grave courtesy, murmuring what they had to offer as we shook hands.   (source)
  • But Mr. Axelroot provides a grave temptation, as he is such an abominable curiosity.   (source)
  • "If you're gonna change your mind," Hallorann said, bending over him gravely, "you better do it quick."   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • To bring this suffering on another, and to condemn to death all those men and women whom that vampire must subsequently kill! I broke a grave promise.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • He suffered a grave defeat, and he hardly seemed—seems—the type of man to suffer defeat gracefully.   (source)
  • "Son," he said, in a grave tone.   (source)
  • This situation is at the least unsettling, and at the most a grave and wholly unwarranted provocation.   (source)
  • She felt herself the victim of a grave injustice, but her reaction was not vindictive.   (source)
  • I think Harriet alive represented a grave threat to someone, that she was going to tell Henrik something, and that the murderer knew she was about to…well, spill the beans.   (source)
  • Doctor Quinn sat down on the edge of my bed with a grave face.   (source)
  • More than once he fell asleep and woke up to find Nilda out, shopping for medicinal teas, and Milagros over him, a grave owl in her large glasses.   (source)
  • Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • The early twentieth century had trusts, but it also had "trustbusters," progressive government officials who believed that concentrated economic power posed a grave threat to American democracy.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • Obasan moves her head slowly and gravely in a nod as she listens.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • The judge nodded gravely.   (source)
  • Lorena looked more beautiful than ever, but it was a grave beauty since news of the death had come.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "The thaw has been so grave that I've trembled for the consequences, for without snow my very important charge cannot get along."   (source)
  • And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask...   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • I may be committing a very grave error.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • You were in gravest peril while you wore the Ring,   (source)
    gravest = most serious
  • Overcrowding was becoming a grave problem, and this despite the fact that many of the does were re-absorbing their litters before birth.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • She turned to me with a grave smile.   (source)
  • Maybe he was making a grave mistake, but he didn't think he was.   (source)
  • Ordinarily, the cleric carried himself with a grave dignity and released words with the same measured regularity with which he fingered his tasbih, or string of prayer beads.   (source)
  • Eugenides laughed outright, and Agape's grave expression gave way to a smile.   (source)
  • There in the toilet water he saw a grave black face.   (source)
  • Mr. Miller makes the grave error of smiling at Mrs. Nightwing in a charming way.   (source)
  • It was a grave declaration, and I knew it.   (source)
  • I'll be away for a while, visiting a place where a grave error was made.   (source)
  • I wasn't sure why this was such a bad thing, but from the look on Uncle Press's face, I had made a grave mistake.   (source)
  • Both lancers and swordsmen always had a grave expression, as if they were not entirely sure that they could stay on their horses, and their armament seemed purely ceremonial.   (source)
  • I don't believe he ever was a first-rate scientist-but what a priceless valet of science! I know that he has been facing a grave problem lately.   (source)
  • Certainly not on world peace or the search for meaning in an increasingly distracted world or anything as grave and serious as all that, but on a belief just as true.   (source)
  • This time, though, the halfling's business was so grave that it dampened even his ever-lifted spirits.   (source)
  • It's a grave reaction.   (source)
  • First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.   (source)
    gravely = seriously
  • Lewis Powell, starved and famished after three days of sleeping in the woods, instantly realizes he has made a grave error.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • General Pickett is gravely concerned, sir.   (source)
    gravely = very seriously (severely)
  • We made a grave mistake and didn't pay our debts as a country as we moved forward.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • The PLAYER's grave face does not change.   (source)
  • A tentative list of the material requirements for this assignment lay on the conference table, surrounded by many grave countenances.   (source)
  • "This bear did not die of a bullet," one of the Indians told him gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • His brown eyes lost some of their gravity.   (source)
    gravity = seriousness
  • Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • You are faced with a grave responsibility.   (source)
  • Walking underneath the trees, I began seriously to wonder if I had not made a grave mistake in coming to Brooklyn.   (source)
  • "It's a grave indignity, having to sit on your hands," the Sunlight Man said.   (source)
  • And for every person who has signed, there are many who feel grave doubts about the wisdom, not to mention the rightness of this Federation plan.   (source)
    grave = serious (important)
  • Antipova stopped ironing and gave him a grave, astonished look.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • She had listened gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • It was not really anything of a separation, yet he was surprised to find that it seemed to him a grave one, perhaps because his business was grave, or because of the solemn hour.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • The straight chair against the wall looked stiff and attentive as if it were awaiting an order and Mr. Head's trousers, hanging to the back of it, had an almost noble air, like the garment some great man had just flung to his servant; but the face on the moon was a grave one.   (source)
  • This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air, that seemed meditative like the chirping of a solitary little bird.   (source)
  • George Norris called the President's scathing indictment a grave injustice to men who conscientiously tried to do their duty as they saw it;   (source)
  • O'Brien was looking down at him gravely and rather sadly.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • General Macarthur said gravely: "None of us are going to leave the island."   (source)
    gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
  • He looked at her in silence, his face unresponsive and very grave-looked at her intently.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • A change had come over him, and he spoke gravely, and with decision.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • Suddenly his effusive manner collapses, as she stares at him gravely.   (source)
  • Msimangu said gravely, yes, she is very sick.   (source)
  • She watched while Mr. Graves came around from the side of the box, greeted Mr. Summers gravely, and selected a slip of paper from the box.   (source)
  • ...trying to make a joke, but they were all too grave for a joke and no one smiled.   (source)
    grave = serious
  • But if the town was there like on Saturday night, Lige would come up with a very grave air.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • "You're mistaken, my son," he said gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • How on earth could I have made so grave a mistake?   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • All I could get out of him was: 'This place has an evil name among seafaring men, sir.' Then he said to me, very gravely: 'Don't you feel anything?'   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • "You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted."   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • Perrault nodded gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • He soaped himself, and rinsed himself, and austerely rubbed himself; he noted a hole in the Turkish towel, and meditatively thrust a finger through it, and marched back to the bedroom, a grave and unbending citizen.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • The letter lay here a day or two, waiting till you were well enough, then the situation got so grave that I decided to open it in case it was useful to us.   (source)
  • Then he looked at her, at her grave face which had either nothing in it, or everything, all knowledge.   (source)
  • LEWIS—(smiling amiably) As for you, my balmy Boer that walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign policy ever to set you free, once we nabbed you and your commando with Cronje.   (source)
  • I have grave doubts.   (source)
    grave = serious (important)
  • Mallinson half-turned away, his face lit with a grave shyness.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • Mary listened to her with a grave, puzzled expression.   (source)
  • Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely: "Shere Khan speaks this much truth. The cub must be shown to the Pack."   (source)
    gravely = solemnly (seriously)
  • "Then I have misjudged you, and I ask your pardon"--he bowed gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • In the middle of the room she paused, looking about her with a grave mouth and smiling eyes; and in that instant Newland Archer rejected the general verdict on her looks.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • (She is alone, it said, and so are you.) And when she purses up her mouth and stares, so grave and thoughtful, she is like a little child.   (source)
  • It was after its fashion an idyllic spot with a little band-stand out on an island near the center of the lake and on the shore a grave and captive bear in a cage.   (source)
  • But have you any grave doubts on the subject?   (source)
    grave = serious (important)
  • At last she arose, gently dispersed the sympathetic llamas, and with a grave face returned to the shrine.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • His tones were so grave that a hush fell upon the group.   (source)
  • "It was meant seriously," he answered gravely.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • I do not think that any one thoroughly sympathized with me in my ambition to go to Hampton unless it was my mother, and she was troubled with a grave fear that I was starting out on a "wild-goose chase."   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • The chasm seemed a grave of silence.   (source)
  • But, since I had resolved to weigh you in the balance, to make so grave an issue depend upon your answer, I considered it more honourable to give you due warning.   (source)
  • And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.   (source)
  • With a grave and ceremonious air, Marfa Borisovna motioned the prince to a chair at one of the card-tables.   (source)
  • he said gravely, "that is very serious indeed!"   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • Tom looks at me very grave, and says...   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • Motionless, with a grave face, he raised his hands slightly at me in a gesture which meant clearly, "Heavens! what a narrow escape!"   (source)
  • I never will, while of myself I'm master,
    let the divinity of tears--their beauty
    Be wedded to such common ugly grossness.
    Nothing more solemn than a tear--sublimer;
    And I would not by weeping turn to laughter
    The grave emotion that a tear engenders!   (source)
  • The girl-mother replied in a grave affirmative.   (source)
  • Thus he passed out of the preparatory school into college, and we who watched him felt four more years of change, which almost transformed the tall, grave man who bowed to us commencement morning.   (source)
  • But Sylvia kept an awed silence; she knew by instinct that her grandmother did not comprehend the gravity of the situation.   (source)
    gravity = seriousness
  • At these words a grave smile of approval lighted the gaunt face of the Hindoo.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • He was the notary of the place, a tall, grave man of pompous speech.   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg did not betray the least disappointment; but the situation was a grave one.   (source)
  • She shall go to her grave looking her best.   (source)
  • After his departure, he had to finish the daily routine of business with his secretary, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great personage on a matter of grave and serious import.   (source)
  • "I don't see anything funny," she said gravely, when she could be heard.   (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
  • All this time Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient.   (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
  • If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.   (source)
  • "Fly, Fly, I am ashamed of you," Mary was saying in a grave contralto.   (source)
  • "That's true, Mum," said Mr. Pumblechook, with a grave nod.   (source)
  • Javert was impassive; his grave face betrayed no emotion whatever.   (source)
  • Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh;   (source)
  • When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck, the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness, "Dinner, Mr. Stubb," and descends the scuttle.   (source)
  • "But—but—" said he, getting up slowly, while his face assumed a grave expression.   (source)
  • With a grave severity in my manner I bade her stand up.   (source)
  • Mr. Gore was a grave man, and, though a young man, he indulged in no jokes, said no funny words, seldom smiled.   (source)
  • For a man who, like Franz, viewed his position in its true light, it was a grave one.   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the little one was not what you would have called either a grave child or a sad one.   (source)
  • By good conduct, a handsome person and calves, and a grave demeanour, Raggles rose from the knife-board to the footboard of the carriage; from the footboard to the butler's pantry.   (source)
  • He told me once, with a grave smile, that no man in the world lived so methodical a life as he.   (source)
  • She put the question as literally as possible, however, and received a grave answer in the affirmative.   (source)
  • Yet hence arises a grave mischief.   (source)
  • A certain speculator with a grave, whiskered face, who sold cakes at a theatre door, had some strong wooden benches made which he placed before the window of the stores, and obligingly invited the public to stand on them and look in, at the modest charge of twenty-four kopecks.   (source)
  • I am anxious to vindicate myself from such a charge; for although I might trust to your friendship for an apology in your eyes, yet I would not willingly stand conviction in those of the public of so grave a crime, as my fears lead me to anticipate my being charged with.   (source)
  • At Newport we took in a number of passengers for New York, among which were two young women, companions, and a grave, sensible, matron-like Quaker woman, with her attendants.   (source)
  • And here it must be noted that such-like deaths, which are deliberately inflicted with a resolved and desperate courage, cannot be avoided by princes, because any one who does not fear to die can inflict them; but a prince may fear them the less because they are very rare; he has only to be careful not to do any grave injury to those whom he employs or has around him in the service of the state.   (source)
  • I should be very sorry if Meletus could bring so grave a charge against me.   (source)
  • More important, we were happy to have helped out a family that was dealing with a gravely ill child.†   (source)
  • Wang nodded gravely.†   (source)
  • The Count nodded gravely to acknowledge the indisputable likelihood of children in the schoolhouse; then, as he dipped his own spoon into the scoop of strawberry, he noted that he had enjoyed school very much.†   (source)
  • "Once you've dealt with the formalities," Max said to Paul gravely, "transfer the rest of the money to a bank account in Cape Town.†   (source)
  • You'll need a lawyer to write it out," said Joseph gravely.†   (source)
  • Renata stopped and turned to Mae, looking gravely concerned.†   (source)
  • Mr. Costello nodded gravely.†   (source)
  • Mr. Cartier introduced himself to each of us individually, making eye contact and smiling gravely.†   (source)
  • A dream,' the reporter said gravely, 'that will never come to pass.'†   (source)
  • She was quite concerned at how many Canadian authors were on our reading lists; because she'd not read them, she suspected them of the gravest parochialism.†   (source)
  • They are only to be used as a last defense against evil, or in the gravest of illnesses.†   (source)
  • "We haven't yet come to the panic part," replied Mr. Benedict gravely.†   (source)
  • He looked gravely at Arthur and said, "I'm a great fan of science, you know."†   (source)
  • Fine, and—gravest of all—and this hasn't been the case since Voldemort—Harry's scar is hurting again.†   (source)
  • My feelings—my shame—I have no words for," he said, more gravely, when still I did not answer.†   (source)
  • From then, off and on, I was gravely ill.†   (source)
  • My father recited it as gravely as if it were the Modegan royal lineage while accompanying himself on a half harp.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I have," Hatsumomo said gravely, and she came and knelt at the table.†   (source)
  • Carlisle looked gravely at Laurent.†   (source)
  • Nico replied gravely, "Having money isn't part of our admissions criteria; we fund our students out of research grants."†   (source)
  • But I walk away from our conversation, wondering how it would play out if Nathaniel were judged to be gravely disabled.†   (source)
  • The park's gravest flaw, at least from Olmsted's perspective, was that its shoreline was subject to dramatic annual changes in the level of the lake, sometimes as much as four feet.†   (source)
  • Sitting at home in my wheelchair, I committed one of the Team's gravest sins—feeling sorry for myself I slipped deep into depression.†   (source)
  • His aunt, Mrs. Gravely, had taught me history in junior high.†   (source)
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  • Mr. Maverick said it only leads to two things, the grave or prison, and I ain't trying to see either.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • When the other girls crouched to slap the stage, I tilted; when we were to cartwheel, I swayed, refusing to allow gravity to do its work, to draw the sweatshirt any higher up my legs.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • Finally, he touched the grave one last time, walked back to his truck, and drove to his boat at the town wharf.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • She'd also tried The Shoulder Shrug, even The Grave Digger's Handbook, but none of it seemed quite right.   (source)
  • "Making a grave," he said.   (source)
    grave = burial
  • "He gets caught, they'll give him a flogging that will waken his father in the grave," Farid muttered.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • …and I didn't want to cry in front of a bunch of people, and I didn't want to toss a handful of dirt onto his grave, and...   (source)
  • And Halliday was obviously the dungeon master, even if he was now controlling the game from beyond the grave.   (source)
    grave = time of being buried
  • But the tunnel was quiet as the grave, and the first unexpected sound they heard was a loud crunch as Ron stepped on what turned out to be a rat's skull.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • He gathered his strength and for a brief second seemed to defy gravity as he took a quick step up the wall and, with Zero's help, pulled himself the rest of the way over the ledge.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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  • Put it in its own little grave, to dig up when he needed it.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • To try to stop it from flipping, Louie and Phil bailed in water as ballast, positioned themselves on opposite sides to balance their weight, and lay on their backs to keep the center of gravity low.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • It reminded me of the eternal flame they'd put on John F. Kennedy's grave that will never go out no matter what.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • The sheriff parked the car and led me up a path toward the river, and there, on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mother's grave.   (source)
  • Swear on my father's grave.   (source)
  • Unless Sam Westing is out to get somebody from his grave.   (source)
  • Someone had left a bunch of orange and red zinnias on Laura's grave; hot-coloured flowers, far from soothing.   (source)
  • As they worked, they put the sky in place above, the trees in the ground. They invented color and air and scent and gravity.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • "We can go to Jim Morrison's grave!"   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • Even in his sixties, when he was a little stooped and a lifetime of counter-obstetric gravity had begun to nudge his flesh downwards, Mamaji swam thirty lengths every morning at the pool of the Aurobindo Ashram.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • When Lewellen noticed the marked grave beside the Colbey's home, Marsha admitted it was the burial site for her recently delivered stillborn son.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • The Captain walked over to the helmet, rifle, and dog tags, the symbolic grave, still stuck in the ground.   (source)
  • The older women, in kitten heels, wore structured suits, with padded shoulders and silk linings in contrasting colors, and hats that looked as if they defied gravity.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • A careless tourist had left a charcoal, grave-rubbing pencil on the sarcophagus lid near Newton's foot.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • He moved through the markers until he got to a grave covered with a sheet of grimy plastic or glass, its edges slimed with filth.   (source)
  • Just a few steps and a leap, and gravity would do the rest.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • Every time we go to see my Aunt Helen's grave, my mom and I like to talk about something really great about her.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • Mrs. Dubose was not cold in her grave— Jem had seemed grateful enough for my company when he went to read to her.   (source)
  • …his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave, or rather to his death, for he had no grave.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.   (source)
  • Then, as though to cry out is his only means of speech left: She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave!   (source)
  • He dived back into the Pool of Tears, the gravity of the portal-already growing more familiar to him-pulling him down.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
  • I was the one who insisted on trying to find his grave, questioning the farmer about it because Rufus, like his father, like old Mary and Alice, had probably been buried on the plantation.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • Spirits from beyond the grave were always surrounded by bright angelic light and enveloped in an aura of peace and tranquillity.   (source)
    grave = time of being buried
  • When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave.   (source)
    grave = burial spot
  • I dream I'm in the battleroom, only instead of being weightless, they're playing games with gravity.   (source)
  • ...and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.   (source)
  • The rain poured down his thick glasses, and he took them off and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave.   (source)
  • It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up in the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.   (source)
  • "I was down to the graveyard to plant a rosebush on Matthew's grave this afternoon," said Anne dreamily.   (source)
  • That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us.   (source)
  • It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle.   (source)
  • Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.   (source)
  • The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.   (source)
  • Trenches, hospitals, the common grave—there are no other possibilities.   (source)
  • They were corpses waiting to be sent back to the grave.   (source)
  • He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave,   (source)
  • The whole region where they go up becomes one grave.   (source)
  • You don't even control the climate or the law of gravity.   (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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