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  • “Piccola, lugubre storia di amore, paura e morte.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : The Tales of ASP: Me 2008

  • En plus il y a un moment ou en soulevant una trape de son appart rei de retrouve dans un passage secret lugubre qui fait penser au mur du manoir ... enfin c etrange ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • But now something strange happens, whenever I hear the Lento lugubre -- as I am doing in my mind at this very moment ...

    The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

  • Arab marriage customs, talks of the 'brutalité du viol dans le marriage -- un drame lugubre.'

    Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

  • Car même l'impuissance de semblables remèdes qui m'ont empêché de vous écrire plutôt, m'ont arrêté dans le désir de venir près de vous à un moment aussi lugubre pour votre grand coeur.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • The title is "La lugubre Gondola" (the funeral gondola).

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • In the neighbourhood of Pujaud, not far from Avignon, the harvesters speak with dread of _Theridion lugubre_, {1} first observed by Leon Dufour in the Catalonian mountains; according to them, her bite would lead to serious accidents.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • So far from laughing, I reflect and enquire, when the Calabrian peasant talks to me of his Tarantula, the Pujaud reaper of his _Theridion lugubre_, the Corsican husbandman of his

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Not but what some ladies, Ma'am, set in for sorrow much earlier; indeed, in the prime of life; and for such cases it is a very durable wear; but praps it's too _lugubre_: now here's another -- not exactly black, but shot with a warmish tint, to suit a woe moderated by time.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840

  • Liszt's Tristia, a trio arrangement of his solo piano piece Vallée d'Obermann, sets the elegiac tone of this disc, which plumbs even further depths of despair in the cello and piano version of La lugubre gondola.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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