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The next was a fine little girl, of three or lour years, who inquired where they were going to bring her daddy, and asked if he would not soon come back to her.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

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 The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Life is but a day at most, Sprung from night,—in darkness lost; Hope not sunshine ev'ry hour, Fear not clouds will always lour.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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

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 Robert Burns

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

He chases away the evil clouds and the dark cobwebs of the brain, which have spoilt love and joy for us, which day and night have loured on us.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

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

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

The louring cloud passed, but it was felt that visits to be prudent must be rare; for the first time a week went by without a meeting.

From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden