lour

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 Thomas Gent

And I, "Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour; What night doth lour?"

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman

What, then, hath man wherein he well may boast, Since by a beck he lives, a lour is lost?

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

Harper Elliston remained in his room until a late lour.

From Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express by A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

O my stars,    Why do you lour unkindly on a king?

From Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe

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

It had overspread the west, and loured upon the river, on whose yet unruffled waters the giant shadows of the mountains were casting a still deeper gloom.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

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

At a cost of considerable will-power, apparently, the wounded man collected himself and levelled at Matthias his louring, but now less dull, regard.

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance