Graves
[ɡreivz]
[ɡreivz] or [grɑv]
Definition
(noun.) English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985).
Checked by Judith--From WordNet
Definition
(n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Typist: Remington
Examples
- And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. Plato. The Republic.
- Then in another moment he had clambered up the wall and was going among the graves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If I could only wake at her side, when the angel's trumpet sounds, and the graves give up their dead at the resurrection! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I escaped to the shore, and I was a hiding among the graves there, envying them as was in 'em and all over, when I first see my boy! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When they lifted you up out of bed to carry you into the dressing room you could look out of the window and see the new graves in the garden. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They landed at Elizabethport, New Jersey, and first settled near Caldwell in that State, where some graves of the family may still be found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I entered it, and approached the tomb which marked their graves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Almost a night, Jerry, said Mr. Lorry, to bring the dead out of their graves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A careful estimate makes the length of the passages of all the catacombs combined foot up nine hundred miles, and their graves number seven millions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nowhere, but into our graves, said Cassy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If I could only wake at her side when the angel's trumpet sounds and the graves give up their dead at the resurrection! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He clung to the little heaps that marked the graves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The first example is said to have been produced by Elisha Graves Otis, who applied steam power to an elevating machine in a little shop at Yonkers, on the banks of the Hudson, New York. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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