lour

What, then, hath man wherein he well may boast, Since by a beck he lives, a lour is lost?

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

It tells me every cloud is past   Which lately seemed to lour; That Hope hath wed young Joy at last,   And now's their nuptial hour!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Shortly after the birth of his children, the French Revolution began to lour in the political horizon, and James Nicholson, the weaver, with a fevered anxiety, watched its progress.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

The next was a fine little girl, of three or lour years, who inquired where they were going to bring her daddy, and asked if he would not soon come back to her.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour!

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

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

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

When the first days of August loured over the world, time seemed to stand still.

From Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

It had overspread the west, and loured upon the river, on whose yet unruffled waters the giant shadows of the mountains were casting a still deeper gloom.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

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

The sky itself was black and louring, resting midway on the mountains, or drifting past in heavy clouds, while no breeze was stirring below.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever