Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House yesterday passed the Senate bill appropriating $10,000 for the erection of a monument at the grave of Thomas Jefferson...
...Senate adopted a joint resolution appropriating $10,000 for a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello...
Prof. J. J. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, and a grave man of science whom the late Prof. Peirce pronounced to be the best mathematician in the country, is now discovered to be a poet of not a little ability...
...admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly so, but on the whole entirely just, we claim. Society, in a technical sense, may have foolishly coddled and patronized this nice young man, but the genuine public has expressed its emphatic disapproval of such proceedings. If Mr. Wilde is sincere (and there are grave and justifiable reasons for doubting this), then all that is to be said is that his ideals of right and beauty differ from those of most men; and that most men will, as usual, resist the imposition of these ideals upon themselves until convinced that they are preferable to those generally...
...Most grave and moral Gower...