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4 total sentences available.
If you have never beheld or heard a bassoon you are to understand that it is an instrument of wood, of considerable more length than breadth, provided with numerous stops and keys, and capable of producing an infinite variety of tones, ranging from the depth of lugubriousness to the highest pitch of vivacity.
Source: wiktionary
It is a little difficult for the present generation to gain a clear conception of the New England Sabbath of the time of my boyhood; but this outline at least will give a general impression of its lugubriousness, and it may readily be inferred that the day thus given over to dolorous tasks was not one to which the child would look forward joyously.
Source: wiktionary
The neighborhood appealed to me, particularly at night when the full squalor and lugubriousness of it made itself felt.
Source: wiktionary
He didn’t have the Hindu delight in tragedy and the details of death, and he had often asked Shama not to sing this cremation song. Now he had to listen while she sang with sweet lugubriousness to the end.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include gloom, gloominess, maudlinness, melancholy, melodrama.
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