- a variation of lower.
lour
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And I, "Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour; What night doth lour?"
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
That clouds the brow and bids already lour O'er the First Charles the shades of sorrows nigh?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 by Various
III., year 1339.—Petition of the members of Parliament to be allowed to return and consult their constituents: "Ils n'oseront assentir tant qu'ils eussent conseillez et avysez les communes de lour pais."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Would we all235 Who favor Greece associate to repulse The Trojans, and to check loud-thundering Jove, On Ida seated he might lour alone.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
What though the clouds that o'er me lour Have tinged ye with a mournful hue, Deep in my heart I felt your power, And bless ye, while I sigh—Adieu!
From The Diary of an Ennuyée by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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
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When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.
From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman
He might recollect the same fierce passion in his eye—the same dark scowl upon his forehead, as those which now burnt and loured in the face of his son.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
A projecting low-browed arch, which had loured over many an innocent, and many a guilty head, in similar circumstances, now spread its dark frowns over that of Nigel.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
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
It was now late in the evening; the sun had set, and dark, louring clouds were hanging over the horizon to the westward.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various