lour

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

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Who heard thee not, in that tremendous hour,   When Britain mourn'd her surest anchor lost, And saw her alienated Navies lour,   Like the charged tempest, round their parent coast?

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas

Et auxy, Sir, nous sumus obliges de conustre lour ley de saint eglise: et semblablement ils sont obliges de conustre nostre ley.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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

He looks askance, and sees young eyes that lour   On him, so comely once, unsightly grown: The faded roses make a scented bower,   But aged man seems spurned by man alone.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander