lour

Example Sentences

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Employing 4,000 volunteer runners and walkers wearing digital lights, it is occupying one of the most dramatic spaces in the cityscape: Arthur's Seat, the craggy extinct volcano that lours over Edinburgh.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012

The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lours Shall never more be thine.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

Picardie was penitent; but we see it has relapsed: the wide space bristles and lours with mere mutinous armed men.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Can’t I another’s face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lours, As if her merit lessen’d your’s?

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell

Strange and ghastly in the gloom And shadowing of this double thunder-cloud That lours on England—laughter!

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron