lowery

Example Sentences

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The sky was lowery, and the sandy road heavy with the recent rain, when we started.

From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by Gilmore, James R.

It was a dark, lowery morning, not very inviting abroad, for an April shower was then falling.

From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.

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 Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

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 Barbour, Ralph Henry

The clouds became lowery, and from them, black and ominous, as they soon appeared, lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and a little rain fell.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon