lour

Example Sentences

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Who can retire to rest when tempests lour?

From Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs by Bloomfield, Robert

Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour— See the front o’ battle lour; See approach proud Edward’s power— Edward! chains and slaverie!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Who heard thee not, in that tremendous hour,   When Britain mourn'd her surest anchor lost, And saw her alienated Navies lour,   Like the charged tempest, round their parent coast?

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas