- a variation of lower.
lour
Americannoun
verb
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Who can retire to rest when tempests lour?
From Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs by Robert Bloomfield
When golden sunbeams softly fall In light on shrub and flower, E'en then a storm to blight them all May in the distance lour!
From Lays from the West by M. A. Nicholl
The next was a fine little girl, of three or lour years, who inquired where they were going to bring her daddy, and asked if he would not soon come back to her.
From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
It tells me every cloud is past Which lately seemed to lour; That Hope hath wed young Joy at last, And now's their nuptial hour!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
How peaceful lies this palace, yet I see The war clouds lour upon its roofs.
From The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Paul Carus
On press night, clouds loured over the first play, drizzle dampened the second, and unremitting rain called an early halt to the third.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2012
A darkness loured all day in the west even under the rain-clouds.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lucifer loured and grew pale; in a moment, there flew in a wry-footed imp, panting and trembling.
From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Robert Gwyneddon Davies
It had overspread the west, and loured upon the river, on whose yet unruffled waters the giant shadows of the mountains were casting a still deeper gloom.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
He chases away the evil clouds and the dark cobwebs of the brain, which have spoilt love and joy for us, which day and night have loured on us.
From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson
It’s finished in a louring Baconian grey, the colour of a hospital gurney.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
The tour was fraught, the death of Curtis louring over it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
Biggest Upset: The inclusion of Nick Cave on the festival lineup raised some eyebrows as to how, say, Red Hot Chili Pepper fans would react to Cave’s unique brand of darkly louring poetic rock.
From Time ● Apr. 23, 2013
And in some of the drawings, the perspective is clearly altered to emphasise the sinister, louring effects of the temple colonnades.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
The louring cloud passed, but it was felt that visits to be prudent must be rare; for the first time a week went by without a meeting.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
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