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1  A lugubrious being was Montparnasse.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ...
2  There were very lugubrious lines about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
3  On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
4  The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5  Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
6  These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
7  At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
8  A phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious only for me.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
9  Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
10  An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
11  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
12  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
13  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
14  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ...
16  But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed that it issued from an abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
17  Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with corn-flowers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
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