She introduced herself by the lugubrious appellation of Senora Dolores, and, receiving Mary with obsequious courtesy, explained that the Senor and Senora were at a tertulia, or evening party.
Everybody laughs at the jaundice, though Fitzjocelyn does look solugubrious that he had almost frightened me.
He then took a position at one of the points of this rectangle, and began a monotonous chant, rocking his body to and fro in time with the somewhat lugubrious air.
For full ten minutes was the wild chorus kept up, the mare all the time squealing like a stuck pig; while the dog responded in a series of lugubrious howls, that reverberated along the cliffs on both sides of the creek.
For nearly an hour did this contrasting duet continue, varied only by an occasional recitative in the hoot of the great horned owl, or a cantata penserosa in the lugubrious wail of the prairie wolf.
As Phelim put the question that terminated his last soliloquy, the hound gave out a lugubrious howl, that seemed intended for an answer.
One had a very large, underhanging lip, with a kind of tragi-comic countenance, and was constantly making lugubrious puns.
They raise a hymn which seems a funeral wail, While o'er the pageant falls the dark, lugubrious veil.
Whatever might have been the result, the evening concluded with a terrible thunderstorm, mingled with the roaring of cannon, which had a most lugubrious effect.
Their capped heads were seen uncovering one after the other, in the gloom, at the lugubrious question addressed to them by the president in a low voice.
Meanwhile, the lugubrious cavalcade has traversed the crowd amid cries of joy and curious attitudes.
This was lugubrious in the darkness, and their faces turned pale as they looked at each other.
After ascending and descending several steps in the corridors, which were so dark that they were lighted by lamps at mid-day, La Esmeralda, still surrounded by her lugubrious escort, was thrust by the police into a gloomy chamber.
Their innumerable sculptures of demons and dragons assumed a lugubrious aspect.
In the gay capital of France he led a wretched life, in constant dread of future disaster, and ceaselessly uttering lugubrious prognostications.
A line of them marched ahead, playing lugubrious notes on pipes of reed, above which rose the words of a chant.
Only sounds of lamentation floated through the ravine and among the sacred trees, prompted at brief intervals by the lugubrious wailing of a trumpet blown in the temple precincts.
Of all men in the world, a bankrupt requires to wear a lugubrious look.
But Aristide felt some doubts on the point; he had suspicions of some lugubrious farce.
Miette, after a woman's fashion, was partial to lugubrious subjects.
The prophecy with regard to Sacchi's company was speedily fulfilled; for the earthquake of Lisbon happening in 1755, they were obliged to quit the scene of that lugubrious disaster.
It was a lugubrious yowl there, in that setting, and it made one's scalp creep all over one's cranium.
The door of Number 13 was open as Clint returned to his room after football practice and lugubrious sounds issued forth.
From the next room, by way of opened windows and transoms, came the most lugubrious wails he thought he had ever listened to.
For of all dreary and lugubrious perpetrations in print, nothing can be more desolate than laboured witticism.
I often wondered what could be the secret of Storm's liking for me; for that he liked me, in his own lugubrious fashion, there could be no doubt.
During our homeward ride hardly a word was spoken; the wheels rattled away over the uneven pavement and the coachman snapped his whip, while we sat in opposite corners of the carriage, each pursuing his or her own lugubrious train of thought.
The heavy, solid furniture, the grave and decorously mediocre pictures, and the very tint of the walls wore an air of substantial, though somewhat lugubrious comfort.
I found him with his wife, his child and his dogs, in a lugubrious little apartment in the Batignolles.
How long and lugubriousthis meal by the bedside of my sick friend appeared to me!
If any thing about the performance in the singers' seat did not please him, he was apt to express himself in a lugubrious howl.
But, what is this, sir, why the mourning outfit and the lugubrious reception?
Mr. Finney joined Chris and the Captain at that moment, and looking down at Zachary nodded his long sad face in lugubrious agreement.
That long, lugubrioushowl rose on the night air again!
Presently a dog set up a long, lugubrioushowl just outside--within ten feet of them.
This lugubrious frontispiece positively fascinated me, and lent a further gloomy charm to the ballad itself.
These lugubrious effusions, all in blank verse or in the heroic couplet, represented, in its most redundant form, the artistic theology of the middle of the eighteenth century.
