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lour

[lauuhr, lau-er] / laʊər, ˈlaʊ ər /


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Salve Regina, though the daylight die, Salve Regina, though the darkness lour; Have they not still the kingdom and the power?

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

Many, marry, then, on whom distress doth lour.

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

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

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

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

When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.

From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

A sultry atmosphere loured over the country; throughout the empire, in every class, men armed themselves, and anxiety for the future pervaded all.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

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

For sunsets, where deep purple lines are louring over the horizon's brink, a mixture of French blue with a little Indian red and lake is admirably adapted.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter


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