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Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUGUBRIOUS
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lugubrious
 a.  mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to exaggerated degree
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to fail, but his brain grow weary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
6  Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
7  These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
8  Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
9  Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
10  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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
11  On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
12  Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
13  There were very lugubrious lines about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
14  A phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious only for me.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
15  A lugubrious being was Montparnasse.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
Example Sentence:
1  The lugubrious howling of the dogs added to our sadness.
2  He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.