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1. From the amorphous and lugubrious mass one could hear lamentations sprouting from the interior
2. ‘He was a shocker,’ said the lugubrious Tower
3. She was as good as her husband’s promise and I was delighted to see her lugubrious face
4. That night whilst laying in our ridiculously cramped tent, the sound of lugubrious singing floated across the Danube
5. "Truly they are," murmured the count in a lugubrious tone
6. The light of the lamps of the church fell upon an assembly of black clothes and white collars, relieved here and there by tweeds, on dark mottled pillars of green marble and on lugubrious canvases
7. As the subject had grown lugubrious it was buried in a silence of the table during which Mrs
8. Marie-Laure thinks of Harold Bazin’s stories: lugubrious monsters made of sea foam, mermaids with fishy private parts, the romance of English sieges
9. In order to make her rent, she in turn had friends sleeping on the floor of her bedroom—another girl from the Midwest and a lugubrious hippie lad who was forever baking something oppressive in the oven
10. That long, lugubrious howl rose on the night air again! They turned and saw the strange dog standing within a few feet of where Potter was lying, and FACING Potter, with his nose pointing heavenward
11. At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice
12. The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is capable of exclamation:—
13. Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed within him, and of all that was working there? That is something which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even believe
14. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths of engulfment
15. An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life
16. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to fail, but his brain grow weary
17. Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start
18. Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner
19. Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword
20. Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman
21. On all sides there were lugubrious stretches
22. The cavities of night, things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of trees, long handfuls of
23. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy
24. But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed that it issued from an abyss
25. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with corn-flowers
26. These antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms
27. ' A phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious only for me
28. A lugubrious being was Montparnasse
29. And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious
30. Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron chimney-pots
31. In the direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter
32. Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force
33. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of slang
34. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on they are sinister
35. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the situation, to
36. The bad ones were those in the lugubrious restaurants along the waterfront, where one was as likely to eat like a king as to die a sudden death at the table, sitting before a plate of rat meat with sunflowers, and which were thought to be nothing more than fronts for white slavery and many other kinds of traffic
37. Robby's face is so lugubrious that it is no wonder I have bad dreams
38. Madame Fusi has left an interesting account of these lugubrious days
39. He quite understood the success which his “friend” was achieving, and at first he felt glad and proud of that success, laughing at the jokes and taking a share of the conversation; but for some reason or other he gradually relapsed into thoughtfulness, and thence into melancholy—which fact was sufficiently plain from the expression of his lugubrious and careworn physiognomy
