grave
noun
an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.
graveward
-
a word derived from
grave.
Example Sentences
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She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, it is only fair to my own interests to go graveward a little more openmindedly than do these nature myths, since I lack the requisite credulity to become a free-thinking materialist.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Death-dull from feet to hair and graveward shoved From royalty to that degraded state But purpler pomp!
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
Was it because she was childless, and travelling graveward?
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
They wrinkle the brow and bring on decrepitude, senility and grey hairs faster than Time himself can possibly whirl bodies graveward.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
