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GRAVES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
Synonyms:
Graves; Robert Graves; Robert Ranke Graves
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpetual misfortune to be mistaken.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And so he progress, and he scatter these graves of him; and none but he know where they are hidden.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But we do not mind. We sleep like dead people, and in the morning get up like dead people out of their graves and go on along the trail.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And I am so frightened that they are afterwards obliged to take me out of bed, and show me the quiet churchyard out of the bedroom window, with the dead all lying in their graves at rest, below the solemn moon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls—occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaming mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode—whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed—and rise before me in this chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I knew that there were at least three graves to find—graves that are inhabit; so I search, and search, and I find one of them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The last hundred feet to the graves was up a steep slope, and this they took on all fours, like sled-dogs, making legs of their arms and thrusting their hands into the snow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Turning upon me a lustreless eye, that reminded me of a long-forgotten blind old horse who once used to crop the grass, and tumble over the graves, in Blunderstone churchyard, he said he was glad to see me: and then he gave me his hand; which I didn't know what to do with, as it did nothing for itself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches out over the sandy pathway far below.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
