- a variation of lower.
lour
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For the leaden lour of the heavens pointed to the coming of a storm.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
And I, "Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour; What night doth lour?"
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
"Aha, that should mean shiners, plenty o' lour, Benno?"
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
"Ceo n'est que un restitution en lour ley, pur que a ceo n'avomus regard, &c."
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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
When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.
From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman
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
He might recollect the same fierce passion in his eye—the same dark scowl upon his forehead, as those which now burnt and loured in the face of his son.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
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
Years had passed on; my pack, worth twenty pounds, was all my own, and I had two pounds in my pocket; it was far on in the year, and the day was short and louring.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
