gra-a-ate

Updated: May 25, 2025

Those gra-a-ate thoughts, those gra-a-ate men you hear of! We hug the earth, how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least. I found my account in climbing a tree once.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862

There was no getting rid of it, or forgetting it, and if at night we sometimes returned in dreams to the green summer world to the fervent harvest fields of England, and heard "the murmurs of innumerous bees," or the song of larks on thymy uplands thump! bump! splash! gra-a-ate! came the sudden reminder of our friend on the starboard bow; and then sometimes a scurry on deck, and a general "scrimmage" of the whole society, in endeavours to prevent more serious collisions.

Lord Dufferin - Letters from High Latitudes

Those GRA-A-ATE THOUGHTS, those GRA-A-ATE men you hear of! We hug the earth how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least. I found my account in climbing a tree once.

Henry David Thoreau - Walking

Those gra-a-ate thoughts, those gra-a-ate men you hear of! We hug the earth, how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least. I found my account in climbing a tree once.

Henry David Thoreau - Excursions