All 33 Uses of
lugubrious
in
Les Miserables
- At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.†
Chpt 1.1
- 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:— "Ah, there you go; '93!†
Chpt 1.1
- The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.†
Chpt 1.2
- 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?†
Chpt 1.2
- An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.†
Chpt 1.2
- 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.†
Chpt 1.2
- An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.†
Chpt 1.2
- The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to fail, but his brain grow weary.†
Chpt 1.7
- Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start.†
Chpt 1.7
- These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.†
Chpt 1.7
- The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.†
Chpt 2.1
- Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.†
Chpt 2.1
- This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April.†
Chpt 2.1
- 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.†
Chpt 2.3
- On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.†
Chpt 2.3
- 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 quivering plants,— against all this one has no protection.†
Chpt 2.3
- Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy.†
Chpt 2.6
- There were very lugubrious lines about it.†
Chpt 2.8
- 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.†
Chpt 2.8
- 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.†
Chpt 3.1
- …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…†
Chpt 3.3
- A phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious only for me.†
Chpt 3.4
- A lugubrious being was Montparnasse.†
Chpt 3.7
- And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious.†
Chpt 3.8
- In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious sarcasm from the corridor:— "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!"†
Chpt 3.8
- 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.†
Chpt 4.5
- In the direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter.†
Chpt 4.6
- Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force.†
Chpt 4.6
- Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of slang.†
Chpt 4.7
- In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on they are sinister.†
Chpt 4.15
- But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, alas!†
Chpt 5.6
- …ought to have been, but forced, for the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between that man and himself, Marius added: "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to the…†
Chpt 5.7
Definition:
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(lugubrious) appearing very sad