Meaning of graveful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a grave.

Examples

“Cold damp sweat⟳ oozed from my temples; there was a dull heavy pressure upon my chest, as if there was the weight of a graveful of earth upon it; […] My senses left me, and when the men took me out, I seemed very likely to have⟳ real need⟳ of the coffin into which they had put⟳ me for fun.”

“Already the ivy has been carefully trained over it from top to bottom, and in front of it is a triple tomb, where a little knot of Frenchmen sleep⟳ between two gravefuls of the enemy.”

“Christ tears away the turf from our assumption of virtue and exposes a graveful of “dead men’s bones and uncleanness.””

“It’s always cold on this Yorkshire hillside where Anne Brontë lies dead under a graveful of red flowers.”

“In a chilling affirmation of Dr. Donald Francis’s 1982 predictions, the Common Factor, a newsletter published by the Committee of Ten Thousand, who had brought the lawsuit, wrote twelve years later, “Like⟳ the canaries in the coal mine, persons with hemophilia serve⟳ as the early warning system for the nation’s blood supply⟳. We all contracted hepatitis B, then non A-non B hepatitis (hepatitis C), and then HIV. The hemophilia community has provided gravesful of information about the safety of the blood supply⟳.””

““There’s so much hatred,” Elicit said bitterly. “Pati doesn’t know⟳ what a graveful of maggots he has nurtured here. He can’t.””

“We have⟳ people bringing us animal bones, thinking they’re human. And I’ve had times when I’ve been faced with a graveful of bones and I’ve had to work⟳ out how many individuals there were.”

“I took the job, the raise⟳, and the cubicle, and I took my pride and stuffed it deep inside, jack-booted it down and covered it up with a graveful of dirt and regrets.”

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