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Graves

(gräv′)

A region of southwest France in the Garonne River valley. The area is known for its fine table wines.

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Graves

(ɡrɑːv)

(Brewing) (sometimes not capital) a white or red wine from the district around Bordeaux, France

Graves

(ɡreɪvz)

(Biography) Robert (Ranke). 1895–1985, English poet, novelist, and critic, whose works include his World War I autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), and the historical novels I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1934)

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Graves

(greɪvz)

n.

Graves

(grɑv)

n.

a dry red or white wine from the district of Graves in SW France.

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Graves - English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves

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Carey often stopped at the bank to deliver a message to Josiah Graves, the manager, who was choir-master, treasurer, and churchwarden.

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"Because," said the Man Leaning on a Spade, "I belong to the Gravediggers' National Extortion Society, and we have decided to limit the production of graves and get more money for the reduced output.

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All the old graves were sunken in, there was not a tombstone on the place; round-topped, worm-eaten boards stag- gered over the graves, leaning for support and finding none.

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"Yonder is the grave-island, the silent isle; yonder also are the graves of my youth.

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'"What man wanders among graves and churchyards on such a night as this?" cried the goblin.

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Here and there among the bushes were small inclosures containing graves, sometimes no more than one.

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- THE MAN WHO LOVES NOT GRAVES AND COFFINS AND SKULLS.

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Many human beings have gone to their graves unattended by as much real regret as followed that one gray pussy cat to his.

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Consequently, they do not dig graves, they blast them out with power and fuse.

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The minister bowed for the last time to the altar and the still fresh graves; then, followed by his assistant, he slowly took the road back to the presbytery.

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'I warrant now,' he said, 'that you think all those are used in making graves.'

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He was of a race that had once been lords on the shores of the salt lake, and his wishes had led him back to a people who dwelt about the graves of his fathers.