They-- The door-bell pealed portentously through the house, echoing and re-echoing through the empty rooms.
The question was so like the boy she used to know that her heart leaped wildly, then became portentously still.
Belgium we have hugely and portentously with us; if never in the world was a nation so driven forth, so on the other hand was one never so taken to another's arms.
He shook his head portentously when the captain inquired after his health and spirits.
In her stead, Mrs. Marrable portentously approached the stage, with an open letter in her hand.
Gothic fiction had much to say of melancholy birds that circled portentously over ancient castles filled with gloom and ghosts, but they were generic and not individual specimens.
It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face.
She let her eyes rest on his own, and she let him take her hand; but her eyes looked like two rainy autumn moons, and her touch was portentously lifeless.
Madame Roland, pale with emotion, conscious of the perils which were so portentously rising around them, shone with a preternatural brilliance in the solemn rejoicing of that evening.
It was only the cathedral clock striking the hour, but it sounded portentously through the solemn stillness of the night, and with quickened attention they all looked up and listened.
He gathered his countenance into an aspect as portentouslysolemn as his dwindled wrinkles could achieve.
Portentously Bakahenzie stalked to the fire and squatted down without even a murmur to Mungongo busy with the breakfast.
Birnier sketched furiously, glaring portentously from the group to the paper.
But no doubt, concluded Fyne, as if dealing portentouslywith a mystery, we two sailors should find much to say to one another.
No doubt we two should find many things to talk about by ourselves in reference to our common calling, added little Fyne portentously in his grave undertones, as if the Mercantile Marine were a secret society.
At last she turned eyes portentously widened and a prolonged "Ss-s-s-h" upon them.
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He pushed the door, and as it swung portentously open he sprang nimbly to one side like the fearful slave liberating the lion.
I was revolving these alternatives in my mind when my perplexity was set at rest by the glass door opening cautiously, and Moore's face, somewhat paler than usual and portentously solemn, peering out.
Then there was a murmur of harsh voices which broke portentously through the slumbrous quietness, and Esmond, rising abruptly, glanced at the major, who walked a little apart with him.
Kipps' face became portentously careful and he tugged at his moustache, such as it was, hard.
Well," said Old Kipps, and nodded his head portentously towards his nephew, with the corners of his mouth pulled down in a portentous, discouraging way.
The doctor nodded portentously and said, "If you and Miss Baron don't obey orders I'll put you both under arrest.
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