Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around.
He looked at me more directly, and the expression of his face, graver now, struck me as the most beautiful I had ever found in it.
It sounded a little as if it had not been what he first meant; but it made her, none the less, still graver and just faintly ironical.
She was graver than he remembered her, and, it seemed, very much more reserved.
The feeble light of its sputtering blue flame touched their faces, which were graver than usual, but Charly looked up as he came in.
They traverse a wider range of human feeling and thought, and when they speak of love, it is of love in its wiser, steadier, graver and less selfish forms.
He readily formed acquaintances, and American, English, and French fellow-travellers could easily have his conversation and company on condition that they would converse on religious matters, or on the graver social and racial topics.
These graver topics have been floated along by contributions of a lighter kind, by good fiction and conscientious literary criticism.
As to novels, he fully appreciated their power over minds, but we believe that he did not read half a dozen in his whole life, and these he treated as he did graver works: he studied them.
First cleanse your heart--that is the graver matter!
He may be fairly reckoned among the men who did solid service in the cause of graver studies.
Varros' Models The aesthetic writings, which have made him a name, were brief essays, some in simple prose and of graver contents, others humorous sketches the prose groundwork of which was inlaid with various poetical effusions.
It was rather in the pre-Alexandrian Greek philosophy that Varro found the models for his more severe as well as for his lighter aesthetic works; for the graver dissertations, in the dialogues of Heraclides of Heraclea on the Black Sea (d.
The Debt Crisis The measures of Caesar for the better regulation of Italian monetary and agricultural relations were of a graver character and promised greater results.
As for Raffles, he appeared to me to feel far more compunction for the fable which he had been compelled to foist upon one of the old masters than for the immeasurably graver offence against society and another Old Boy.
But if Parrington was exonerated in my mind, so also was Raffles reinstated in the regard of those who had entertained a far graverand more dangerous hypothesis.
Anton insisted, indeed, upon what was absolutely necessary being done, but he felt that a time was come when anxiety about individual profit and loss vanished before graver terrors.
Our intimacy has remained unshaken, because, while I willingly gave way to him in trifles, I always abode by my own convictions in graver matters.
Ethel in her graver and more diffident beauty had already begun to taste the sadness of the world.
Signorelli, on the contrary, had his ideal in his brain, and labored to reproduce it; and his efforts aregraver and more elevated.
The memory of a friend's voice, in which certain laughing notes and tones are inextricably mingled with the graver inflections of common speech, is almost as dear as the vision of his countenance or the warm pressure of his hand.
His eyes were gray, and not so vivid, and his glance was more tranquil, his mouth was graver and his smile sweeter.
Descending a little lower, Bruin began to bark, and was answered by the graver bow-wow of the respectable Ben.
In this, as in graver questions, an intelligent forethought must take the place of the old slackness.
It is a fair working rule of life that the behaviour of a man in his sports is a good index to his character in graver matters.
But to condemn schemes of settlement which are no more a hindrance to the gold industry than to the planetary system, is to show a nervous blindness to graver questions, which is the ugliest product of the present strain and confusion.
One may doubt whether English liberties have ever run a graver danger in modern times than at the trial of the twelve reformers.
But in all the more formal and graver utterances of Shelley's genius, from Queen Mab to Hellas, it supplies the theme and Shelley writes the variations.
The graver underglow in Susanna's eyes eclipsed, for an instant, their dancing surface lights.
Women, for all their supposed emotional weakness, have for the greater part a knack of facing the graver crises with a deliberate and almost prosaic calm.
He could hear a fragment of a laughing reference to champagne, then an indistinguishable murmur pitched in a graver key, and a woman's exclamation of contemptuous disgust.
Monsieur de Pracontal," said she, in a much graver tone, "please to bear in mind that I am a very considerable item in such an arrangement as we spoke of.
Belton had made a long visit to the sick room, and his look wasgraver than usual as he came down the stairs.
He does not love her, that is clear," answered his companion, in a graver tone than he had hitherto used.
But in every graver moment she spoke to Dyram of Richard of Woodville and of Mary Markham--for as yet she knew her by no other name.
