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And I never will forget the lugubrious weeping and the flood of tears that Mr. Clements shed over the matter.
It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
The actor adores pranks, especially the ones that require a straight face and his familiar lugubrious delivery.
A tall, lugubrious man wearing what looked suspiciously like a parka, he at first spoke so quietly nobody could hear.
Eventually it sounds downright lugubrious, a dead hand which ultimately presses the life out of these fragile creations.
The round-shouldered promoter spent the morning wandering about looking lugubrious.
The result is fascinating, but the text is so dense with information that it threatens to be heavy and lugubrious.
I think it's better to be a little bit humorous, not just lugubrious if you can help it.
One will certainly be forgiven for harboring similar reservations about the religious tradition that grew up around this lugubrious symbol.
The first time I had a Vietnamese fresh roll, it ruined the lugubrious, cabbagy egg roll for me forever.
Her neighbourhood is lavishly recreated here as a horror set with dark alleys, lugubrious mists and fetid waterways.
Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century.
She is likely to shoehorn her pain into lugubrious scenarios that are perfect for country-music videos.
Every time I came, it seemed, I met a lugubrious local figure who shook his head and dolorously announced that the weather had been beautiful until that very morning.
Yet those mind-blowing influences are hard to detect in Mr. Houseago's lugubrious backward-looking sculptures.
His eyes are heavy-lidded and lugubrious, his voice low and unmodulated, his smile cautious.
Weepers grieving a dead body with long and lugubrious howls, in a random apartment of a luxurious building.
And Ed Miliband's lugubrious demeanour surely makes him an ideal seconder for Straw.
And, making connections, you have to wonder how some new lugubrious legal infrastructure helps that.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The scene in the parlour of grippy, after the inquiry, was of the most solemn and lugubrious description.
Her large prominent eyes are fixed upon Jim as she speaks with a sort of knowingness overlying their former lugubrious expression.
Certainly, if he could know, he would not wish this dedication of his own home to be a lugubrious, smileless occasion.
He was too downcast even to sing one of his lugubrious hymns or to whistle.
There was a lugubrious attempt at a smile as she turned her eyes toward him.
Bid your band silence that dead march, or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strains.
How long and lugubrious this meal by the bedside of my sick friend appeared to me!
Two guitars, a cornet, maracas, sticks and a lugubrious baritone.
But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea.
He saw the two whale-boats land on the beach, and the sick, on stretchers or pick-a-back, groaning and wailing, go by in lugubrious procession.
Miette, after a woman's fashion, was partial to lugubrious subjects.
Crane stared at the deceptive bag in the most lugubrious astonishment.
On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden.
My drunkenness is always sad, and when I am thoroughly drunk my mania is to relate all the lugubrious stories which my foolish nurse inculcated into my brain.
The dogs dashed on, but at the threshold suddenly stopped and snarled, and then, simultaneously lifting their noses, began to howl in most lugubrious fashion.
In the second movement tilec ignored Mozart's andante marking, choosing a tempo so lugubrious that it sounded like Mahler in a suicidally world-weary mood.
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