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He listened gravely and spoke in measured tones, but still fired with habitual martial ardour.
The gravely ill man arrived in the emergency room during the middle of the night.
Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful, and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity.
They will be more gravely weakened if pension funds, an enduring locus of labor power, are privatized.
Doctors are gravely concerned that she could lose her baby and the family has asked to be left in peace to cope with the ordeal.
The intellectual and professional classes, already gravely attenuated, would have been liquidated entirely.
Then, as naively as if he were a bagman selling rubbish to a fool, Chullunder unfolded his proposal to the gravely nodding woman.
You have very gravely sullied her name and unforgivably insulted her, by implying that she only won the scholarship because of who her father is.
The difference between political and religious leadership has blurred due to which the nation as a whole is affected gravely by myopia.
His authority had been gravely damaged by the narrowness of yesterday's victory.
The hands weren't the gravely and rough kind or soft and furry like all of the monsters that I knew of.
His charge for uroscopy is given, along with the cost for medicines administered to those gravely ill.
Reduced to only three corps in strength, its fighting force was gravely diminished almost from the start.
Six of the drivers were killed outright and nearly twice as many gravely injured.
Eventually the planet will no longer be hospitable to humans because we continue to gravely mutilate the environment.
I am gravely concerned about the lack of protection for our main water supply catchment at Rocky Creek Dam.
He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown.
Any given scientific project may be good, but it may also be earnestly pursued and gravely in error.
The man had rambled at her too, in a gravely, grating voice, explaining who he was and where he was taking her.
Lady Macbeth's tragedy is that she so gravely underestimates the strength of the good within her.
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When he learns that his wife is gravely ill with a heart condition, Paul hatches a scheme.
Margaret has lured Helen to England from Germany, ostensibly to visit their gravely ill aunt.
Art dealers who think they can swindle the city and government out of sales tax revenue are discovering they are gravely mistaken.
All this gravely endangers the freedom to make independent decisions and constitutes a threat to human dignity.
Maximus escapes, but is gravely wounded and is soon captured by slave traders and taken to North Africa.
The man nodded gravely, his economical gesture showing how important he considered the transaction.
When I arrived at the employment agency, they gravely informed me that the position had been filled five minutes ago.
These professions, however, are gravely undermined by the fact that she herself has married a Eurasian.
His family is gravely dysfunctional, showing an extreme level of expressed emotion.
His third pro season, 2010-11, also saw him gravely injured, and 2012-13 was abbreviated by the lockout.
The gravely, growling voice is shot to bits, the performances are hokey, the ad-libs too frequent, and the constant crowd noises irritating.
He was gravely wounded in World War I, leaving him with a pronounced limp for the rest of his life.
He was gravely ill with multiple myeloma and was spending time at the Mayo Clinic.
Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light.
The indestructible Gallegos had been killed, Mace was gravely wounded, and neither of them knew what had happened to Martin.
The results could be a gravely weakened Rouhani, stripped of the leeway in talks that he currently enjoys.
This is ostensibly aimed at breaking up gangs, but is gravely misguided.
In any case, he clearly feels that his right-wing government is being gravely misjudged because of the leftwing historical bias being taught in schools.
Gallegos had been killed, Mace gravely wounded, and Martin unaccounted for.
Creighton was matter-of-fact, no emotion showing in his gravely voice.
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At that point, a gravely ill person would have to somehow get their bodily fluids into your system.
Building industry sources say the service is gravely under-resourced.
At least one child in CAR has been killed or gravely injured per day, and 10,000 have been recruited into militant groups.
When she finally flips over to the darkside and channels gravely voiced barmaids, the call goes out for a preacher who will drive Beelzebub and his bilious body odors away.
Crowley also erred gravely in being excessively deferential to the president.
Some three or four cloaked and bearded men have chairs brought, and sit gravely smoking their chibouques on the bank above, enjoying the entertainment.
Many parts of this ceremony evolved from much older, even ancient, rituals conducted for those facing imminent death, the gravely ill as well the criminal or the martyr.
They furrow their concerned brows and squint gravely towards the cameras in their field camo but all you hear is hedge and evade and dodge and divert and equivocate.
This is the big imponderable, and I think it's gravely serious.
As she passed the bundle to him, the tall man raised her hand, her rough hand with its ingrained dirt and torn nails, to his lips and kissed it gravely, his blue eyes dancing.
Months after the photo was taken, the SEAL was shot and gravely wounded in a gunfight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The first shock was learning that my husband was gravely ill.
The soils are gravely loams too shallow for grape production, and have low available water capacity.
During his fourth trip to New York in 1953, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma, from which he never recovered.
He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs.
Before leaving China, Russell became gravely ill with pneumonia, and incorrect reports of his death were published in the Japanese press.
Frequently they meet with a busy signal, get put on hold for ages, are given yet another number to call, or are gravely misinformed.
A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.
A fierce debate ensued on Russian art blogs, where anybody with work in any project connected with the biennial was gravely accused of collaborationism.
Examples from Classical Literature
And still more so when the argument is for punishing more gravely the enemy of the declarant.
It requireth much discernment and much time to enucleate and bring into light their abstruse wisdom and gravely featured virtues.
He hesitated a moment, and then returned gravely to the stage door and opened it.
She pulled off her heavy gloves and gave them, with the stick, to the staghound, which walked gravely away at once.
As he approached, Coats eyed Baird quite as gravely and observantly as Edward had done.
It was very gravely said, but she took it for banter, and giggled excessively.
By the advent of the financial year 1888-9, most intelligent public men felt gravely disturbed.
Recollect, your Delphian utterances have gravely astonished and disquieted me.
Among them was Kado the striver, who stood there gravely leaning on his iron pitchfork.
It is a very pretty sight to see a young child enter the room and gravely perform the kotow to his father and mother.
Some of our historians gravely traced it back to Moses, in whose laws they found the origin of allodial lands.
She gravely extended her hand to meet his and the hatchet was buried in that handclasp.
She looked away, gravely, toward the Maggiore rising from the midst of its clouds.
I went to see a stomach specialist who looked me over and gravely informed me that I had psychasthenia anorexia.
Depositing in it the greasy parcel he was carrying, he handed it gravely to Trevelyan.
McLeod smiled, if we may so speak, gravely, in acknowledgment of the compliment.
Rights we had bargained for with men, which they, not owning them, had gravely given!
He gravely shook the trumpet vine, and the light splendour spread its wings and sailed to a securer realm.
He'd handed it to Harley, and gravely declared it to be a bit of the monster's flesh.
Heliet answered her gently, gravely, but held her own with undiminished calmness.
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Of course, if she had been plain, he reflected gravely, one could understand her being so shirty.
Throughout those parts of Ireland where the National League was supreme, liberty and law were gravely endangered.
After tea branny told them all very gravely that this must be her last visit.
Then, most gravely and admirably, he began to construe the Eclogues of Virgil.
Captain heseltine and Mr. Flemyng looked at their watches and nodded gravely.
Taking from his hat a three-cornered parcel, he unfolded a handsome saffrona rose, which he gravely presented to her.
He glanced gravely at me and at the white, inanimate face of Cross.
His tone was that of one gravely amused, indulgently caressing.
His summoner received him gravely, and motioned him to a chair.
She hunted for her little purse and gravely took out a threepenny bit.
He was sitting on the floor with our boy gravely intent on a toy circus.
The children romped together outside, gravely, unplayfully, as one would expect from Fyne's children, and Mrs.
He bowed gravely to the uhlan lieutenant, who saluted stiffly.
Dorothy nodded gravely and the Queen made a curtsy, after which she became quite friendly with the little girl.
So he watched the woman gravely, and began to moralize with all his might.
She was supplied with a roll of the lozenges and munched them gravely.
Old muzzy gave me a reproachful look and shook his head gravely.
In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.
If I looked as gravely at him as Traddles did, he must have found our company by no means inspiriting.
The man was smiling gravely down into the bright, upturned face.
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Hard-Heart listened gravely, and then, as if apprized that his time to speak had not arrived, he once more bent his look on the vacant air.
I asked her to go into the ladies' waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside.
Constans stared gravely after the black swan as she drove along.
Meredith said to Helen, gravely, as he handed her out of the buckboard.
But my yogi is not a cow,' said Kim gravely, making a hole with his fingers in the top of the mound.
One urchin shall hereafter be a doctor, and administer pills and potions, and stalk gravely through life, perfumed with assafoetida.
You had better go over and see our neighbours tomorrow, Emmaline,' he replied gravely.
I do, indeed, said the scrivener, rising gravely and bowing to me.
The secretary-general was talking gravely to another high official.
At that point Dominique stepped in gravely and shut the door.
This problem in dynamics gravely perplexed an American historian.
Watching her gravely, he asked himself why he had been so besotted with passion for her.
Campbell's big house before us, and his dog sitting gravely at the veranda steps.
At every call he would inquire, gravely and expectantly, for despatches.
They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously.
But she wondered gravely how gula knew that they were not good.
Carmena gravely drew a sheath knife from the pocket of her skirt.
Kathleen received him gravely, and even Hanna had not her accustomed jest.
You are not the first, Hera, who has gravely misunderstood my character.
Railroads, he explained gravely, interested him as little as lumber, real estate, or mining.
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I rose from the table, flinging back my chair, but heysham nodded gravely.
The cowboy nodded gravely and squinched his humorous eyes at the fire.
Anderson turned away from him and regarded the statuette gravely.
The incident was told all over the town, and gravely discussed by everybody.
Athos replaced his dispatch in its bag, bowed gravely, and made several steps towards the door.
The doctor produced another spoonful of the elixir of life, and gravely repeated his first address to me.
Cramped in all kinds of dun cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely.
Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realize that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.
He dipped the onion, bit off a piece, and chewed it gravely.
When he had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose, and gravely spread his presents before the dazzled eyes of his hosts.
No, neddy, I did not punish the child, replied the former gravely.
The Cadi took his seat gravely, and an officer introduced first Ali Cogia, the plaintiff, and then the merchant who was the defendant.
He took the program from her and gravely and gigantically wrote his name across all the length of it.
They were all waiting and viewing each other gravely as they waited.
Le Renard had listened gravely as Heyward slowly proceeded in this subtle speech.
He set down his teacup and smiled at her for a moment gravely.
Micawber's arrangement for the repayment of the advances should be gravely entered into, as it might be wholesome for him to suppose himself under that responsibility.
It is when in this condition that he strips away the husks of life's healthiest illusions and gravely considers the iron collar of necessity welded about the neck of his soul.
He folded his arms on the rail and gravely addressed the dead figure, which still affected him so strongly that he had to exert his will to face it with composure.
The warriors had reassembled, and were now calmly smoking, while they conversed gravely on the chief incidents of their recent expedition to the head of the Horican.
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Craig instinctively knows that if he talks in a gravely deep tone, the listener will lose rapport and trust if the listener's voice is high pitched.
