He looked so portentously solemn, that when you learnt that he was perfectly well in mind, body and estate, the inclination to laugh was irresistible.
It was, that the crowds everywhere had become portentously silent.
He winked portentously, and strangely enough his eyelid failed to resume its normal position.
She said it portentously, as bidding him remember he might be sorry when she was no more.
It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face.
He shook his head portentously when the captain inquired after his health and spirits.
Still, is there any need of pulling quite such a portentously long face?
But the nation meantime was portentously preparing material for a literature which many wondering centuries to follow would occupy themselves with writing.
