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His face was graver. His eyes and his mouth alike gave evidence of disturbing happenings. In the matter of confidences, Smith was not a believer in spade-work. If they were offered to him, he was invariably sympathetic, but he never dug for them. That John had something on his mind was obvious, but he intended to allow him, if he wished to reveal it, to select his own time for the revelation.
The doctor had not been idle as she spoke, and stood ready now in thick gray waterproof and close bonnet, her face a shade graver than its always steady, gentle calm. Jerry followed, his badge of deputy sheriff hastily put on, for the alley was one of the worst in the Fourth Ward, and, well as she was known through its length and breadth, here the bravest might shrink from going unattended.
"You mean, I suppose." observed the instrument-maker, "that you didn't seem to like him much." "Well, uncle," returned the boy laughing, "perhaps so; I never thought of that." Solomon looked a little graver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy's bright face.
"But 'a romantic tale on her eyelashes' is hardly descriptive any longer." "Descriptive of whom? Now you are upon Laetitia Dale!" "I quote you generally. She has now a graver look." "And well may have!" "Not that the romance has entirely disappeared." "No; it looks as if it were in print." "You have hit it perfectly, as usual, ma'am." Sir Willoughby mused.
Because of your vow it should not deter you from marriage, especially when your husband is not only ready, but most willing to assist you in clearing up the mystery, and avenging Leslie Grey. As regards the quality" with a quiet smile "of your regard, well, come, you love me, little girl, on your own confession, and if you have no graver scruples than you have offered, then you must marry me."
I would not advise any particular make of lathe, as the most expensive lathe in the world will not produce a true staff if the workman cannot center his work accurately and does not know how to handle his graver, while on the other hand fine work can be done on the simplest and cheapest lathe by a workman possessing the requisite skill.
I'm quite a serious person. I like to look at the moon. And again Althea blushed. She looked down, sitting straightly in the corner of their sofa and turning her fan slowly between her fingers, and, feeling the sense of gracelessness in this too easy success, Gerald went on in a graver tone.
Gypsy and Joy were not so old but that Christmas Eve with its little plans for the morrow held yet a certain shade of that delightful suspense and mystery which perhaps never hangs about the greater and graver joys of life. "I'm going to lie awake all night," Gypsy announced, as she stood brushing out her bright, black hair; "then I'll catch you, you see if I don't."
Yet even Chateaubriand, in his new-born zeal for the Church, could say of their author, “Pascal is only a calumniator of genius. He has left us an immortal lie.” Of the graver part of the Letters, the following are the only extracts that our space will permit:— “Such is the way in which our teachers have discharged men from the ‘painful’ obligation of actually loving God.
What though, about thy rim, Scull things in order grim Grow out, in graver mood, obey the sterner stress? "Look not thou down but up! To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash and trumpet's peal, The new wine's foaming flow, The Master's lips a-glow! Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?"
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