He was so dull--only dull is hardly the word for a man of his smouldering fire--he was so dour of wit that he could never hope to distinguish himself by anything in the shape of cleverness.
A little dour and blunt in the outlines like Gourlay himself, it drew and satisfied your eye as he did.
He shrank, in visioning fear, before the dour face, loaded with scorn, that would swing round to meet him as he entered through the door.
Jock Gilmour was still seething with a dour anger because Gourlay's quiet will had ground him to the task.
More than ten years ago now Templandmuir gave this fine, dour upstanding friend of his a twelve-year tack of the Red Quarry, and that was the making of Gourlay.
He was full of such fads, and nothing should persuade him to alter the crotchets, which, for want of something better, he made the marks of hisdour character.
He had been stolid and dour in his other misfortunes, had taken them as they came, calmly; he was not the man to whine and cry out against the angry heavens.
And more so in the shire of Dumfries than in Galloway, where the muirs are broader, the King's arm not so long, and men more desperately dour to drive.
The dragoon used the simpler hanging guard and pressed upon his adversary with plain dour weight of steel.
He hadna muckle to say, but he spak' aye mair dour and wearisome than ever.
And he gave them certain dour strokes on their bodies, for they were strong carles and could bide the like--not like the poor feckless loon of a colleger.
There's a dourpack o' Whigs up that glen,' says Clavers.
Faith, the auld tog is nane sae ill an auld carle, though siccan a dour an' maisterfu' Whig.
And with that he waved his hand, cried to his men, and rode off like the steeve and dour persecutor that he was.
But the loon was dour for a' the want o' his sword, and we micht no' hae mastered him but that he tried to trip us and so got tripped himself.
So once or twice in his dour days I've found an almost Satanic delight in singing The Humming Coon.
And I call him Dinky-Dunk and The Dour Maun, and Kitten-Cats, though for some reason or other he hates that last name.
Professor Hodgson was preparing to remove his dour look from their vicinity.
Only too delighted with the opportunity, our voluble friend proceeded redundantly to regale the stranger's ears with the dour legend we heard narrated by very different lips nearly at the commencement of this narrative.
Olive, with the dour legend running in her mind, now longed to get away from the place.
Dour deep trench; Sedgemoor lies in a marshy district near Bridgewater, much intersected by trenches or 'Rhines.
You can't keep down the boy who makes Carlyle his daily companion; he will rise by very force of fighting spirit of this dour old Scotchman.
His youth was spent in migrations to the south in winter and in efforts to thrive in Scotland's dour climate in the summer.
It is the very reverse of that dour opposition which a Lowland Scot or a North English peasant offers to familiarity; but it is hardly less insurmountable.
Do you see the dour drunkard standing up, under the eye of the smart young inspecting Fleet Surgeon, naked save for the leather bootlace that held a battered silver locket round his harsh and swarthy scrag.
The results of the Olympic Games of 1912 must have made dour reading for the fathers of these youthful Britons, remembering their own triumphs in the early eighties.
Dour and Dandy were so well supplied with bits of juicy steak, or well-covered bones, that they were in danger of overfeeding, and Mr. Macrae had to limit their allowance.
At last they got so close that Dour and Dandy, in their love and loyalty to the two children, could restrain themselves no longer, and, at the same moment, they flew at the throats of the two foremost assailants.
For this purpose, Wikonaie would lead the way, Baptiste follow, and Hector bring up the rear, keeping Dour and Dandy at heel until their services should be required.
The man that shut me up took both Dour and Dandy away with him.
On the following morning, Hector, accompanied by Ailie, and having Dour and Dandy, went down to the beach, where there was much going on to entertain them.
Of course, Hector's mother both scolded and coddled him, and little Ailie gazed with startled eyes at the motionless monster, and Dour and Dandy came in for unlimited praise and patting, which they accepted with their wonted dignity.
To free himself from the dogs the moose tossed his head high in the air, thereby flinging Dour to one side, but at the same time exposing in the completest way his magnificent breast.
I'm richt glad I heard the row they were making, and thocht that maybe Dour and Dandy might be glad o' my help.
When the mystery was at its height, and the whole party was aroused to concern for the missing boy, suddenly Dour appeared, and rushed up to Mr. Macrae, barking joyfully.
Aye, aye, sir," said that usually dour personage, with alacrity.
Lady Dinsmore shook her head at him and glanced at Farrington, but thatdour man had drawn a chair to the edge of the box, and was staring moodily down into the great auditorium.
The office of the paper was situated at the top of a building in Fleet Street; one back room comprised the whole of its editorial space, and one dour man its entire staff.
He had been a minister of the Queen, a keen and vehement debater, a dour political fighter, as well as a man of some distinction in letters; he had suddenly retired from all his offices and emoluments without a day's warning.
I know not why it was so dour to catch, for out of curiosity I got me a copy afterwards, and the Lord knows it was dry enough--at least to my taste.
He did not like to be beaten, and my father was a dour arguer.
The line palpitated; under cover of its confusion the Chief, standing in the doorway with folded arms, winked swiftly at the Captain; the next moment he was moredour than ever.
Of what use has my beauty been to me, Everard, since you came to my little cottage and loved me and made me love you, and took me away from Dour Roger?
Do you remember the school chidden used to call him Dour Roger?
I became madly enraged at that dour old rascal, who would dare to sour a home for ten years because of a vow made in a moment of temper.
They're baith dour chiels, and haena muckle tae say, but Tammas lies a graund hert, and there's waur fouk in the Glen than Saunders.
Well, it's about two years since you began to attack me about letting you have that part of the Dour regalia, and I wanted to satisfy you and do my duty in the trust my good old friend your father placed in me.
He left you to me, Singh, to make a man of you with Glyn here, and I hope to live to go back with you both to Dour and see you safe in your rightful position and fight for you if the need should ever come.
Why, because you are a maharajah, a prince; and when you grow old enough you are going back to Dour to rule over your subjects and be one of the biggest pots in Southern India.
My father had met Jim on the highroad, dour as a thunder-cloud, and with an insult in his eye for every man that passed him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
