Example Sentences

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His right hand grasped the upper portion of the velvet cross, partly detached from his doublet, and he looked loweringly upon her.

From The Strong Arm by Barr, Robert

She saw him glance out at the soldier loweringly and after that he grew more morose, almost sullenly so.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan

I was the next upon whom the eye of the police-sergeant loweringly fell.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

Over the horizon had gathered a pall too black to be mistaken for the shadows of approaching night—a sinister cloud where storm-furies brooded loweringly over a sinister land.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

The man of sentiment, with the election in his hand, sat looking loweringly about him.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles