Adjective : lowering skies. From Dictionary.com.
This was how Rebus remembered the Highlands - louring and forbidding. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
In the east, over Maslovska, a single lurid mass was louring, but Karl. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
The deposed Lord Coercer stood decorous beside his louring young rival. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
There was something sinister and empty about the place, a louring sense of disease. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
Unseal that louring eye from its repose; thy lowly couch of scattered leaves, O Hector, quit!. From Wordnik.com. [Rhesus] Reference
The ash, compounded with lamp black, gives a soft cold gray for dark louring clouds, or for twilight away from the sun's influence. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Alone, blue black is useful as a cool shade for white draperies; and compounded with cobalt, affords a good gray for louring clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Who, then, can shadow forth the fate that is reserved for this tropical gem of the ocean, where all around is so dark and louring?. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
It was a darkening wilderness of louring sky, angry sea, and mighty cliffs, and the elemental beauty of it brought a return of perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Day broke with rather more than half a gale blowing beneath a louring sky. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
The captain squared himself toward Lanyard, his face louring, his jaw pugnacious. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
And veils the louring skies with mournful But when his limbs upon the pile were hud. From Wordnik.com. [Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others] Reference
Sunday was cloudy and cold, with a little rain; Monday was louring, Tuesday unsettled. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
He paused there, louring at his subaltern with haunted eyes ablaze in a face like parchment. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
So they held their tongues and watched the approach of the boat with gloomy, louring glances. From Wordnik.com. [Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess] Reference
Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
WHILE you, my Friend, from louring wintery plains Now pale with fnows, now black with drizzling rains. From Wordnik.com. [Almada hill: an epistle from Lisbon] Reference
Some hailstones fell on board about this time, and the clouds looked exceedingly black and louring above us. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
"The country people look with a kind of superstitious awe at the red louring aspect of the sun thro 'the fog.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
"Ah ha, here it is," said Mendes, as we jumped into a forecourt and stared at a massive shelf louring over the entrance. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Of their tenant he was feeling just then a bit less sure than he had half-an-hour since; his regard was louring and mistrustful. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
The louring cloud passed, but it was felt that visits to be prudent must be rare; for the first time a week went by without a meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning]
"Yes, sir," said the figure of mud, darkly louring under its tin hat, "but I know where the blighter is now, and I'll get the beggar yet.". From Wordnik.com. [Old Junk] Reference
Mr. Fourcroy in his general system of chemistry, and particularly on the co - louring part of the blood, has offered the following theory. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Already met, the louring hosts appear. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Driving back shadows over louring hills. From Wordnik.com. [Romeo and Juliet] Reference
What louring star now envies thy estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
This louring tempest of your home-bred hate. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard the Second] Reference
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. From Wordnik.com. [What I bought – 23 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
As day-light funk, and brought in louring night Her (hadowy offspring, unfubftantial both. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
For the black gun-deck's louring roof. From Wordnik.com. [Victories of Love] Reference
Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
And in wing'd accents, louring, thus replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
And took to their brooms 'neath a louring sky. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Childhood] Reference
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