lour
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Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour: See approach proud Edward's power— Chains and slaverie!
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The sky began to lour, and threatened a storm.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
III., year 1339.—Petition of the members of Parliament to be allowed to return and consult their constituents: "Ils n'oseront assentir tant qu'ils eussent conseillez et avysez les communes de lour pais."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Life is but a day at most, Sprung from night, in darkness lost: Hope not sunshine every hour, Fear not clouds will always lour.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
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
A projecting low-browed arch, which had loured over many an innocent, and many a guilty head, in similar circumstances, now spread its dark frowns over that of Nigel.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
An’ when she loured the grai, it penned lāki, “Mukk mandy jāl an’ I’ll rikker tute to a kushto-dick barvelo rye who kaums a pirreny.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.
From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman
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 weather had been louring since we left Houidouk, and we had a regular hurricane the evening we reached the Caspian.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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