lour
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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
How peaceful lies this palace, yet I see The war clouds lour upon its roofs.
From The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Paul Carus
The sky began to lour, and threatened a storm.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
It tells me every cloud is past Which lately seemed to lour; That Hope hath wed young Joy at last, And now's their nuptial hour!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
He who, when storms about his land did lour, Faced them, and rode them out, and to the goal Of glory, and to safety's haven brought His mighty charge!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various
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
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
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
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
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
"Yes, sir," said the figure of mud, darkly louring under its tin hat, "but I know where the blighter is now, and I'll get the beggar yet."
From Old Junk by S. K. (Samuel Kerkham) Ratcliffe
