lour
Americannoun
verb
Other Word Forms
- louring adjective
- louringly adverb
Example Sentences
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He was presently sent on a lour of the South, and while in South Carolina was in the charge of Colonel William Washington, a hero of the Cowpens and many other battles.
From George Washington: Farmer by Haworth, Paul Leland
And I, "Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour; What night doth lour?"
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, 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
Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
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 Jusserand, Jean Jules
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