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"ref": "2014, Robert Barr, The Strong Arm: And Other Stories, page 64",
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"ref": "1887, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Typhus",
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"ref": "1906, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 178, page 14",
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"ref": "1976, Growing Point - Volumes 15-18, page 3457",
"text": "The outsize nature of Norse mythological characters is well noted in Caselli's dramatic close-ups, in which the powerful, lowering figures of Odin or Thor are backed by ice and rock, massive trolls, gigantic eagles and wolves.",
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"ref": "1827, Anonymus, Two Years in Ava from May 1824 to May 1826, page 17",
"text": "The morning had been intensely hot, with but little wind; and the lowering gloomy aspect of the clouds appeared to indicate the approach of one of those sudden gales peculiar to tropical climates, and which, although of short duration, are generally productive of mischief.",
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7",
"text": "The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.",
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"ref": "1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82",
"text": "Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2013, Alexandra Raife, A Question Of Trust",
"text": "Jon crossed the pass into Glen Maraich in a stinging flurry of sleet, heading down between dark walls of rock under a lowering sky.",
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"ref": "2014, Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin",
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"ref": "2012, H. A. Guerber, The Myths of Greece and Rome",
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"ref": "2013, Robert E Howard, Red Shadows",
"text": "A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.",
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"ref": "2014, Robert Barr, The Strong Arm: And Other Stories, page 64",
"text": "The Countess had liked Elsa from the first moment when she saw her, ragged, unkempt and forlorn, among the lowering, suspicious men-at-arms in the courtyard, and now that she knew the dangers and the privations the girl had braved for the sake of Wilhelm, the affectionate heart of Beatrix found ample room for the motherless Elsa.",
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"ref": "2018, Taylor Caldwell, The Arm and the Darkness",
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"ref": "1887, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Typhus",
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"ref": "1906, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 178, page 14",
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"ref": "1976, Growing Point - Volumes 15-18, page 3457",
"text": "The outsize nature of Norse mythological characters is well noted in Caselli's dramatic close-ups, in which the powerful, lowering figures of Odin or Thor are backed by ice and rock, massive trolls, gigantic eagles and wolves.",
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