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 Charles Dickens and Music by James T. Lightwood
Fraunc homme et de fraunc estat et eux nient seisi de luy, come de lour villein prest etc.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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
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
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
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
The helm of the night loured over 1790 Dark over the host-men.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
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
A gloomy melancholy air loured on the brows of our shipmates, and a dreadful silence reigned amongst us.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
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
For sunsets, where deep purple lines are louring over the horizon's brink, a mixture of French blue with a little Indian red and lake is admirably adapted.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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