lowery
Example Sentences
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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 Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
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 C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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 Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
The sky was lowery, and it was afternoon when we commenced to plant.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
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 Ralph Henry Barbour
