"Graveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saw he was not smiling and his graveness gave her a sense of power. He had owned, with typical frankness, that she had ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... The new graveness of what he was pledged to do had, of course, been strongly present in his mind from the first moment of revelation. Kidnapping a nineteen-year-old girl was certainly, as Peter had pointed out, a pretty serious business. He perceived that it ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... answered. "O little slip of girlhood, I am tempted, for it is not reasonable you should possess everything that I have lost. Innocence you have, and youth, and untroubled eyes, and quiet dreams, and the fond graveness of a child, and Gregory Darrell's love—" Now Ysabeau sat down upon the bed and caught up the girl's face between two fevered hands. "Rosamund, this Darrell perceives within the moment, as I do, that the love he bears ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... very riband in the cap of youth, Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears Than settled age his sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.—Two months since, Here was a gentleman of Normandy,— I've seen myself, and serv'd against, the French, And they can well on horseback: but this gallant Had witchcraft in't: he grew unto his seat; And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd With the ...
— Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... us," said Cheyne, with a curious graveness they afterwards remembered. "That is, the stress and strain—it is the triumph at the end of ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss |
