Definitions
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- adverb toward the
grave - adjective which leads toward the
grave
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Examples
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Slowly at first, then with a modest momentum, and at last the graveward process is in the full swing.
Sister Carrie 2004
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No, it is only fair to my own interests to go graveward a little more openmindedly than do these nature myths, since I lack the requisite credulity to become a free-thinking materialist.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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So she died very slowly, did Alison, -- and always I was at hand with my kisses, my pet names, and my paddlings, -- killing her, you observe, always urging her graveward.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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Now at last Felix Kennaston could unconcernedly acknowledge that human beings develop graveward in continuous solitude.
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Slowly at first, then with a modest momentum, and at last the graveward process is in the full swing.
Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Slowly at first, then with a modest momentum, and at last the graveward process is in the full swing.
Sister Carrie 1900
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Was it because she was childless, and travelling graveward?
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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Sweet as flowers had strewn his graveward path along.
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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And anyone standing on the threshold of the nearby door discovered movement of a grave nature (meaning in a graveward direction).
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a modest momentum, and at last the graveward process is in the full swing.
Sister Carrie 1900
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