" "But with a lonely boy's passionate admiration for beautiful things," he answered; and his gravity was a gentle rebuke to her.

Gravity and modesty are the senses of piety, which being once slighted, sin will easily attempt and encroach upon us.

The gravity of the situation was not misunderstood at Rome.

"But this gravity and assurance, which is beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood.

Through this circumstance she learned that Don José was not yet fifty, and that his gravity of manner and sedateness was more the result of fastidious isolation and temperament than years.

40 Would you but change, for serious plot and verse, This motley garniture of fool and farce, Nor scorn a mode, because 'tis taught at home, Which does, like vests, our gravity become, Our poet yields you should this play refuse: As tradesmen, by the change of fashions, lose, With some content, their fripperies of France, In hope it may their staple trade advance.

Gravity on the surface of Mars is less than half what it is on Earth; the total mass of the planet is as two to fifteen.

The gravity of the saturnine Hayashi was not proof against the grotesque exhibition, and even he joined in the general hilarity.

40 Would you but change, for serious plot and verse, This motley garniture of fool and farce, Nor scorn a mode, because 'tis taught at home, Which does, like vests, our gravity become, Our poet yields you should this play refuse: As tradesmen, by the change of fashions, lose, With some content, their fripperies of France, In hope it may their staple trade advance.

My son, he is a consul at the least, And gravity becomes Octavius best, But, Cinna, would in yonder empty seat You would for Marius' freedom once entreat.

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

" I rose and bowed with the gravity becoming my rank.