He talked to her, not of the actualities of his life, but of his thoughts and feelings--his dreamy speculations upon the gravestproblems which hedge round the secret of man's final destiny.
Dormer, gravest and most discreet of handmaids, whose name seemed to have been made on purpose for her, looked at her mistress, and receiving a little nod, took up her work and crept away.
We have now shown you that this mental affection is nothing else but ignorance, and thegravest ignorance.
One of thegravest mistakes in the dress of women is the very thin covering of their arms and legs.
No doubt, ran the report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic.
Yet the next day there was nothing of this in the papers except a little note in the Daily Telegraph, and the world went in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race.
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
The Stoics and Platonists hesitated between the analogy of bodies and the purity of spirits; yet the gravest philosophers inclined to the whimsical fancy of Aristophanes and Lucian, that an unbelieving age might starve the immortal gods.
A strategical defensive has been quite as common at sea as on land, and our own gravest problems have often been how to break down such an attitude when our enemy assumed it.
But he was careful to point out that such a form of war was open to the gravest objections.
One of the gravest causes is a constipated colon, which promotes indigestion, and through it, lack of nutrition, thus cutting off the supply of nerve food.
One of the gravest objections to all the hitherto existing appliances is the construction of the nozzle, or tube, that is inserted in the body, and through which the water is conveyed.
Now, from the desolated heights of Huitzil's temple, the solemn booming of the great serpent drum, only sounded in times of gravest moment, vibrated through the remotest comers of the city and far out over the waters surrounding it.
So, seating himself beside the pile of mats that formed Sandoval's couch, and on which Huetzin now lay, Cortes listened with the gravest attention to an account of all that had happened to the young warrior since the preceding evening.
A neglect of the importance of scale is one of the gravest faults of contemporary education.
Show all the fellows this, and tell them, as they will guess, that nothing but matter of the gravest moment could take me away under the circumstances.
But the great loss of blood coming at such a moment made the case one of great anxiety--of the gravest anxiety.
But the gravest error in the monastic system was the false and harmful distinction so clearly drawn both in theory and practice between the secular and the religious.
Indeed his superior ability aroused the jealousy of Galerius, who purposely exposed him to the gravest dangers, thus hoping to get rid of him.
For scarcely any important borough was without some ecclesiastical settlement within its walls, and everywhere the dispute took the gravest form.
This system is a blight of the gravest character upon the local industry of the inhabitants, and it is a suicidal and unstatesmanlike policy that crushes and extinguishes all enterprise.
This is a very sensible mode of catechising the boys according to their ages and acquirements, with questions, exciting their attention to subjects of the gravest importance.
There's one rides very sagely on the road, Showing that he affects the gravest mode.
Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists is one of the gravest threats we face.
Our greatest and gravest concern, however, is WMD in the hands of terrorists.
These are men from India, persons of deep wisdom, well-conducted, and of the gravest morals.
But even from the secondary point of view of consequences, I have the gravest doubts as to the common assumption that the effects of enthusiasm are always preponderantly if not wholly good.
But under the system sketched by Allison I have the gravest doubts whether any man of genius would ever emerge.
But now, tested by criticism, both the extreme positions suggest the gravest possible difficulties and doubts.
The antiseptic system, at which I have already glanced, illustrates the manner in which beneficent results of the gravest moment follow in the wake of clear theoretic insight.
I think, if you will allow me to say so, that the gravest consequences are likely to flow from your estimate of the body.
The conversation turned upon the gravest and loftiest topics that can occupy the human soul.
In the Pentateuch the adoration of images is branded as the gravest of offences.
The rapid destruction of our forests is an evil fraught with the gravest consequences, especially in the mountainous districts, where the rocky slopes, once denuded of their trees, will remain so forever.
That a question of the gravest magnitude, and new in this country, was raised by this course of proceeding, was fully recognized also by its defenders in the Senate.
Then the voice of the Harvester changed and dropped to tones of gravest import.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gravest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
