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    1. There is a mass grave – a surplus of irons that have done their job and gone to rest


    2. It would be vengeance from beyond the grave


    3. the rope from his grave, he speaks to his heart saying


    4. I was, to be frank, a pain in the arse, a wet blanket of the dampest order, and I felt as though there would never be an end to the digging of the shallow grave that held what was left of my worthless life


    5. and his grave astonishment


    6. Silence, the silence of the grave and the deep valley hours,


    7. the forgotten grave, his name obscured,


    8. a myth, my name a mark upon the grave,


    9. for another’s quiet in her grave


    10. My aunt bore it all as best she could but in the moment she dropped some soil onto the lid, she sank to her knees beside the shallow grave and buried her face in her hands, trembling and shaking, overwhelmed with grief

    11. A few passed me phone numbers and addresses; others crossed themselves and spoke into the grave, 'Goodbye, Pantelis


    12. ‘If nothing else, I can give the funeral words over the grave


    13. To the grave and desperate disappointment of both the young man and his mother, the young ladies behaved perfectly because they had all been brought up properly by respectably stage struck parents, each of them agreeing immediately to the request for a bit of a scrub at the washtub


    14. Apart from the tinny hiss from Lucy’s headphones the Roach household was as silent as the grave for weeks after the murder


    15. Then, and despite his own wish to hear the song again, he asked Lucy to try and keep the house as quiet as the grave for the rest of day so that her mother could recover from her nerves


    16. his adult life, was a grave disappointment to Billy


    17. household was as silent as the grave for weeks after the murder


    18. house as quiet as the grave for the rest of day so that her mother


    19. He wonders if the kids were dead before they were dumped in their plastic grave


    20. Do not cry for me, whoever you are, visit my grave if you must but do not weep, visit my babies and laugh with them

    21. At the end of the discussions, they dug a shallow grave, buried him, and covered it with loose rocks


    22. Then I figured it was safe and I went down to the grave site to get a better look at such a magnificent creature


    23. May the Sun warm his grave, and the wind carry his


    24. Further inspection and a little logical deduction persuaded her it was Chas’s grave


    25. They had all stood awkwardly for several moments after the body had been laid in the shallow grave, an atmosphere of expectancy in the air … shouldn’t someone be saying something ritual or meaningful?


    26. of white carnations on his mother’s grave and a baseball, brown from use, onto his


    27. east of his parent’s grave


    28. The graveside service was held at the village cemetery soon after, and young Jameson walked away from the grave down the village streets to the stables and his home---an orphan


    29. “That is a secret I will carry to my grave” Andrew replied


    30. You shall come to the grave at a full

    31. grave diggers bury it in the Valley of


    32. 9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,


    33. Her eyes grew more solemn and her face was as serious as the grave


    34. merchant was in grave peril


    35. ‘I swear on my mother’s grave


    36. “It goes to a deep watery grave on its way back to Angola


    37. She is at her father’s grave this day


    38. Li-Na and Li-Li with the passengers and shredded MH370 were now slowly drifting to a deep watery grave in the Mariana Trench some 5,000 metres below


    39. David cried out in the Psalms, “Where can I go from your presence Lord, if I rise to the sky you are there and though I go down to the grave you will find me there


    40. “On of these authors (the Fellow that was Pilloryed, I have forgot his Name) is indeed so grave, sententious, dogmatical of a Rogue, that there is no enduring him

    41. The girl went out to her mother's grave every day and wept, and she remained good


    42. Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother's grave, and planted the branch on it, and she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it


    43. Now that no one else was at home, Cinderella went to her mother's grave beneath the hazel tree, and cried out:


    44. On the third day, when her parents and sisters had gone away, Cinderella went again to her mother's grave and said to the tree:


    45. However, they had to ride past the grave, and there, on the tree, sat the two pigeons, crying out:


    46. They could do you grave harm, probably even kill you


    47. quick prayer over the shallow grave, and the party was on


    48. These people didn't know Alan and Desa were in grave danger, they were just out for a little entertainment on a Nightday evening


    49. "Its not the twelve I'm worried about, its the thirteenth one that gives me grave cause for concern" Miss Pringle glared forbiddingly, "Granny always said the Plateau had many moods and not to take them lightly, keep to the road and all will be well she used to tell us when we did geography


    50. He had his hands clasped behind his back, his expression was grave, but she ignored him










































    1. 36 For on the plates of the ledges of it, and on the borders of it, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the


    2. He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls


    3. graved himself a great mountain, and flew up on it


    4. 4 And whenever the voice went out of his mouth all they burned that heard his voice like when the Earth fails when it feels the fire; 5 And after this I beheld and note there was gathered together a multitude of men out of number from the four winds of the Heaven to subdue the man who came out of the sea 6 But I beheld and note he had graved himself a great mountain and flew up on it


    5. Graved a maxim true and wise,


    6. "No," said he, firmly persuaded of the truth of his idea (and he said it loud enough to be heard), "the greatest beauty upon earth shall not avail to make me renounce my adoration of her whom I bear stamped and graved in the core of my heart and the secret depths of my bowels; be thou, lady mine, transformed into a clumsy country wench, or into a nymph of golden Tagus weaving a web of silk and gold, let Merlin or Montesinos hold thee captive where they will; whereer thou art, thou art mine, and where'er I am, must be thine


    7. "Indeed," said Don Quixote, "Sancho's moderation and cleanliness in eating might be inscribed and graved on plates of brass, to be kept in eternal remembrance in ages to come


    8. Then a neck exquisitely turned, graved behind and on the sides with


    9. I spun with a quiet curse, hunched my shoulders in Caesar's cloak, ignored two dozen stab wounds given me by the wind, and stomped down along the graved drive


    10. When the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with spherical ripples, and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts shadows upon the wrinkled surface, it may well be supposed that the watery circle surrounding it somewhat resembles a dial, with its style and wavy hour-lines graved on it

    1. “Do you see those two makeshift graves over there?” he asks


    2. We both stop at the graves


    3. We put candles on the graves for the ones who have left the village, like Mr


    4. When she got back to the site of the two graves she slowed, puzzled that she couldn’t hear him behind her


    5. were people placing flowers on graves, people standing, a young man had his arm


    6. the paved road, onto the actual graves, hitting the tombstones like speed bumps


    7. Harry explained to her, “My ancestors would turn in their graves to know that someone, or group, used the external training of their art for self-aggrandizement


    8. I went to visit my parents’ graves on the


    9. And so, she spits on their graves and leave them to rot together


    10. Withered and cracked graves

    11. "I already visited their graves today


    12. " Edrimer returned to look at the two graves


    13. To dream that you dead uncle calls to tell you that he is digging graves indicates that your subconscious is telling you about some hidden truth or family secret that needs to be uncovered


    14. But then, even though a man’s physical body falls into the arms of Tarite in death (and his soul into Serren’s), ceremony dictates that he is buried at the Temple he attended to in life, and so the few and scattered followers of the deity could not fill Death’s graves as quickly as could the worshipers of the other gods


    15. crosses that marked the graves of those who succumbed and


    16. It was now close to the end of April and we were due to go back into the front line this time for a protracted stay as we moved up I noticed for the first time some old graves off to our left on the corner of a woods


    17. Carl and Wil sat their mounts close to the graves, and Carl saying prayers for their souls


    18. I could see the big oak at the top of the cemetery standing like a sentinel and I made my way through the other graves to it


    19. It may console the friends of many who fell during those terrible days, to know that their dear ones were not thrust into unhallowed graves when they fell on the battlefield, thanks only to these devoted chaplains, who stood bareheaded, motionless, the target for sharpshooters, in the path of spent fire, and emerged unscathed through divine protection


    20. That was guaranteed by its height of twenty feet, its bifurcated barbed tail, the red-hot flaming hoofs instead of feet, claws as large as jet engine fan blades, and a devilish smile that said that this one knew he had a natural capacity to instill gaping awe, mind-numbing fear, and send men early to their graves

    21. Shallow graves were being prepared; the younger Badger cubs collected wild flowers to honor the brave dead warriors


    22. “They’re my dogs’ graves,” Stickman said, “this is where I’ve always come to bury them


    23. disagree with my parents? Should I leave gifts on my parents’ graves? By


    24. They may have dug their own graves, but the thought that he would have to fill them saddened him immensely


    25. The same graves where the prison


    26. Hunter watched with relief as Cara, or rather Melissa Graves, got them the flight they needed


    27. Cara had decided she needed to dump the Melissa Graves identity since the agents would have discovered it in the Caymans


    28. The number of mass graves found up to year 2006


    29. Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder of it on the graves of the children of the people


    30. Eze 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog

    31. Luk 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them


    32. Graves in the time of Jesus


    33. Jer 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:


    34. 2Chr 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them


    35. carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it onto the graves of those who had


    36. Note that we will not jump out from ash containers, also note that God will not resurrect the “ashes”, but the bones will be resurrected from the graves!


    37. New Testament – Jesus’s own Words: Everyone IN THE GRAVES shall hear his voice


    38. Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,


    39. Elder Clow was going past at the moment and next day all the Glen heard that the manse children had been having another praying competition and had wound it up by chasing each other all over the graves with a lantern


    40. To take everything scripture teaches regarding this subject and nullify it on the basis that some graves have been pillaged is the same as saying: “My child stole a cookie, therefore I amputated his hands”

    41. Some countries recycle graves


    42. Next we read about the “ash” (powder) which was cast (scattered) on the graves


    43. 2Kin 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people


    44. 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me


    45. Did we as the families not pay with tears and heart ache and now have to find out that our love one's remains is discarded in mass graves


    46. Firstly: Who will hear His voice? Those who are in the graves or those in the ditch behind the crematorium together with animal bones? Those who are in the graves or those whose ashes are scattered on the country side or in the ocean? You can trust me in this – nowhere in the bible does it say: “and those whose ashes have been used as tattoo ink will hear his voice and be resurrected”


    47. “Everyone in the graves shall hear His voice”


    48. His colleagues, when they found he had lost his family, would often ask if he went home to visit their graves


    49. He simply told them that their graves were not in one place


    50. brick; 4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat pigs's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in










































    1. For see the stone that I have laid before Joshua; on one stone shall be seven eyes: see, I will engrave the graving of it, says the Lord of


    2. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt


    3. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool,


    4. Caelum - The Graving Tool


    5. hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a


    6. That would be the Doctrine of Two Spirits, which is the same as the Two Tables of Stone and Zechariah 3:9 which states " upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof


    7. behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, said the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the


    8. behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the


    9. shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon


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    Synonyms for "grave"

    grave tomb grave accent engrave inscribe scratch sculpt sculpture dangerous grievous life-threatening serious severe heavy weighty sedate sober solemn important critical consequential momentous staid thoughtful dignified earnest ominous vault mausoleum sepulchre mound barrow

    "grave" definitions

    death of a person


    a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)


    a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation


    shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it


    carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface


    dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises


    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm


    of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought