The chief alone preserved a gloomy and saturnine expression.
Charles the Hammer, or Martel, had arrived at the convent of St. Saturnine escorted by only about a hundred armed men.
A boy of eleven or twelve years, confined in the convent of St. Saturnine in Anjou, was leaning on his elbows at the sill of a narrow window on the first floor of one of the buildings of the abbey, and looking out upon the fields.
He was at the convent of St. Saturnine when the donation of this abbey was made to your son and his band.
At the halt that you made at the convent of St. Saturnine with Charles Martel; it was there that the Jew recognized you.
There was a drawn look upon the man's face, a sullen saturnine air about him as though he were vexed inwardly with the chafe of some perpetual pain.
His doubts as to Gorlois's mood were set at rest by that gentleman's somewhatsaturnine opening.
The future as yet was a blank to her, lacking possibilities, jealous of its secrets, saturnine as death itself.
Two round points of light flashed from the watcher's window, but the saturnine smile on Jones' lips was not observed.
The sight of her stirred the saturninelips of the butler into a smile.
Something of slow and saturnine must be the necessary accompaniment of that disposition, that can conquer the difficulties of such a pursuit.
Her husband, joining us when she was in full tide of eloquence, smiled at me with a kind of saturnine mirth.
The waiters had flocked round him, and were pointing to a table by the window, which a saturnine Englishman, who had dined off a beefsteak and potatoes, was about to vacate.
There will be fanatics in religion, while there are people of a saturnine disposition, and melancholy turn of mind.
Smollett's remarks upon the mysterious dispensations of Providence in regard to Genoa and the retreat of the Austrians are charged to the full with his saturnine spirit.
The saturnine squire entered, his eyes blazing with suppressed excitement.
The count did so, his dark face lit with avarice; behind him his saturnine captain, Beloso, crowded closer.
By Jove, sir," (here he gave a saturnine chuckle, and leer.
This morning after appearing somewhat saturnine at breakfast, he was again in his unnatural, rollicking mood.
The country people were either saturnine with an odd shyness, which had something almost hostile in it, or they were effusively hospitable, forcing apple-jack upon the two doctors.
Wales, some kind of progress was made, and the super's face began to lose its saturnine expression.
He was witty, handsome in his saturnine way, and had powerful friends in the world of fashion and finance.
The girl's eyes grew thoughtful, as she saw that he still drew the leering, saturnine face of Jim Asberry.
I have not yet begun to scowl," he assured her, and proceeded to show what superlatives of saturnine expression he held in reserve.
Then, thrusting the letter into his trousers-pocket, he fixed upon Kenelm a very brilliant pair of dark eyes, which soon dropped before the steadfast look of that saturnine adventurer.
When he came home for the Christmas holidays he was more saturnine than ever; in fact, his countenance bore the impression of some absorbing grief.
If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs And make proud Saturnine and his emperess Beg at the gates like Tarquin and his queen.
And here in sight of heaven to Rome I swear, If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths, She will a handmaid be to his desires, A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.
Alvarez, who was in an exceeding good humor, "why this saturnine countenance?
Then they heard a burst of firing behind them, and a smile of saturnine triumph spread slowly but completely over the face of Shif'less Sol.
Phil Sanderson he saw often, Yeager sometimes, and once or twice he caught a glimpse of Healy's saturnine face.
The face of another man rose before her, saturnine and engaging and debonair.
When we anchored, Tomas, beside me in saturnine silence, grunted and spat into the water.
He looked the part to the life, in a plumed hat, cloaked to the chin, and standing apart in a saturnine dignity.
It seemed to hang in the air round the grotesque ragged-ness of the saturnine brown man.
She addressed Castro as "His Worship" at every second word, for the saturnine little man, in his unbrushed cloak and battered hat, was immensely respected by the household.
Castro, sitting outside as usual, had scrambled to his feet and stood by, hat in hand, his head bent slightly with saturnine deference.
Castro, who served me as if Carlos' soul had passed into my body, but looked at me with a saturnine disdain, had arranged it all with Father Antonio.
Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculence of restraint.
All the while the little Cuban talked swiftly and with a saturnine enthusiasm.
To live in the two camps, as it were, was a triumph of Castro's diplomacy, of his saturnine mysteriousness.
To see this little saturnine bandit, who generally stalked about haughtily, as if the whole Casa belonged to him by right of fidelity, crawl into my room like this was inexpressibly startling.
No one knew how much the tubby, saturnine little man was in the confidence of the Juez O'Brien; and there was no doubt that he was a good Catholic.
Miss Zella Holmes flew about the house, with the saturnine Hungarian in attendance.
