lour
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And I, "Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour; What night doth lour?"
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
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
Life is but a day at most, Sprung from night, in darkness lost: Hope not sunshine every hour, Fear not clouds will always lour.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
Shortly after the birth of his children, the French Revolution began to lour in the political horizon, and James Nicholson, the weaver, with a fevered anxiety, watched its progress.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 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
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
When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.
From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman
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
Silent, and pale ye stand, with conscious sighs, Your struck soul louring in your down-cast eyes!
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward
