His long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : lugubrious songs of lost love. From Dictionary.com.
I tell you, "lugubriously," the pickin's is gittin 'slim on this range! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference
He shook his head lugubriously as he broke the news. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XL] Reference
"I gotta work," answered the taxi driver lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
« 6/7/02 Despite my lengthy, lugubriously-explained |. From Wordnik.com. [6/8/02 I just read a] Reference
| 6/7/02 Despite my lengthy, lugubriously-explained ». From Wordnik.com. [6/6/02 I've decided that freelance] Reference
Caleb threw his sister one lugubriously helpless glance. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
Barney brought the bottle, shaking his head lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Can Be Fun]
“I gotta work,” answered the taxi-driver lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
"I feel as though I were one big wound," said Bart lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
"And I have a contusion of the nose," said the Babu lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
He nevertheless tends to view their legacy a little lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Batt: furry business] Reference
“It got very cold up there, Lady Peter,” he said lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
"What shall we do, Momsey?" repeated the girl, rather lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
"I've been reading the last edition," replied Grogan, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Don Carlos sighed lugubriously and turned up his eyes to the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
"If I am, it must be a nightmare, I think!" she answered lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
“Wait until you see the bathroom,” Robichaux advised lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
Water seeped lugubriously from the crowns of gigantic mushrooms and other fungi. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
He gazed lugubriously at Alleyn, spoke of shattered nerves and soon began to cry. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
The trombone had moved his station and was wailing lugubriously under the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
"They hain't nary chance to save him no more," the old woman averred, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
About them in the night-time hordes of vagabond dogs howled lugubriously in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Yani sighed deeply and lugubriously, twirling the little bottle of oil in his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
"That's half past six at night, not in the morning, I suppose," said Bess lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
I go to my wardrobe and consider, rather lugubriously, what is the right thing to wear?. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
“I shall laugh — I know I shall; I shall die of laughing,” she said, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Our campfire sorted them out and a heron flapped lugubriously overhead before a heavy dew fell. From Wordnik.com. [How to get back to nature when camping] Reference
The agent hopped on crutches enthusing, while the gentle giant boomed lugubriously down at him. From Wordnik.com. [He Towers Above Us] Reference
"A believe ye're richt," he replied lugubriously, "what wi 'malaria an' muskitties, an 'Cheeniemen ----". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
'My great telescope won't work!' he replied lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
"And I'm stung for ten thou," reflected Clyde, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
"'Tis true, 'tis sad 'tis true," Terrence replied lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
"You never said a truer word, brother," said Rachel, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life] Reference
"I don't see anything so very fortunate in being engaged as a porter," said Rachel, lugubriously. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life] Reference
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