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Gin and short dresses defeated dour concern with the world’s problems.
READY FOR THE ROARING ‘20S?ALAN MURRAYJANUARY 4, 2021FORTUNE
The dour among us might point out that such parallels can only go so far.
THE YEAR IN PHYSICSMICHAEL MOYERDECEMBER 23, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Wat Gordon shook his head with a certain unconvinced and dour determination.
LOCHINVARS. R. CROCKETT
He ransacked the train forward in vain, and returned, passing Marjorie with a shake of the head and a dour countenance.
EXCUSE ME!RUPERT HUGHES
Dour, drug, dull—The state of the ice when the- 25 - stone cannot easily be thrown the length of the rink.
THE CANADIAN CURLER'S MANUALJAMES BICKET
The others brought forth tobacco and squatted or sat near the dour Jamaican.
BORDER, BREED NOR BIRTHDALLAS MCCORD REYNOLDS
You were always considered something like me—dark and dour when you liked, but sunshiny when you liked also.
GIRLS OF THE FORESTL. T. MEADE
One old lady whose cat had disappeared looked at William with dour suspicion in her eye whenever he passed.
MORE WILLIAMRICHMAL CROMPTON
His dour personality had—in his own sanctum—overpowered the native beauty of his house.
THE GREAT MISS DRIVERANTHONY HOPE
But he sha'n't if I can help it; and, thank my stars, I'm a dour woman to reckon with.
MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURESGRANT ALLEN

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