lowery

Example Sentences

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Captain Stewart laughed as he looked out upon the dreary landscape, for the afternoon was lowery, and certainly, the cheerless flat landscape between Washington and the Junction was far from thrilling.

From Peggy Stewart at School by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)

The day had now become cloudy, lowery, and it looked as if there might be snow.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore

The morning was lowery, with occasional spatters of rain, and the storm, which had blown off to the northward the day before, had left a heavy sea running.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry

One lowery morning, as I was standing in camp, I saw a lot of ducks borne swiftly down by the current around the bend in the river a few rods above.

From Locusts and Wild Honey by Burroughs, John

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