2. Adjective. which leads toward the grave ¹
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Definition of Graveward
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graveward
Literary usage of Graveward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"One more sharp goad among the rest to hasten Poverty's graveward creep through
labour's stress ? Nay, Sir. "No Order ! " Law must shape and fashion Some way ..."
2. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"Take him up again and wend graveward, nor weep: There's a trumpet that shall rend
This Soldier's sleep, Pass the ropes the coffin round. ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"Be ye of better cheer, Who graveward grope with fear ; From out that silent gloom
Life springs to fairer bloom. Our woes but crush the weeds And scatter ..."
4. Euripides by Euripides (1912)
"... Loose flinging my bright robe saffron of hue— I, by whom corpses with wailing
are graveward led. Polyneices, "the man of much strife"—well named ! ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"When she sat, her head was prayer-like bending; When she rose, it rose not any
more; Paster seemed her true heart graveward tending Than her tired feet, ..."
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