All this was said with such a lugubrious expression that Hugh had to laugh.

Ashly watched her go with a lugubrious expression, then drained his juice in one gulp.

As to Barkilphedro, he was joyful- acircumstancewhich gave a lugubrious expression to his face.

I had not only swallowed, but nearly choked with a tendency to laugh at the lugubrious expression of my friends' faces.

Not that you'd have guessed it from his lugubrious expression, one which often prompted strangers to ask if he was feeling unwell.

See Have I Got News For You and the lugubrious expression of Paul Merton as he sardonically surveys all that surrounds him.

When I returned, we had a long conversation about it, during which I observed that Peterkin had a most lugubrious expression on his countenance.

"We'll see about that," observed Ernest, laughing at his friend's lugubrious expression of countenance.

"I said I had lost two hundred florins," replied Ben, with a most lugubrious expression.

"Yes, he will go out feet foremost, poor old gentleman," she said, counting the francs with a half-facetious, half- lugubrious expression.