lowery

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The day was lowery, as days in the mountains are apt to be; but when duty goes along with inclination, a possible sprinkling is no very serious hindrance.

From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford

In general the mornings are apt to be lowery, with fogs hanging low until, say, 9 o’clock, so that one cannot predict weather for the day.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

The sky was lowery, and it was afternoon when we commenced to plant.

From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas

The girls saved up one of Addison's socks, and on a lowery day in June, when they made pretty sure that he had stolen off fishing, Ellen ran over for Kate and Tyro.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

It was a lowery morning, and Bill proposed that we go together and look after a line of traps on Salt Run, and then put in the balance of the day still-hunting deer.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel