lour

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The Queen was in the Par-lour, eat-ing bread and ho-ney;

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  • We have lost "lour sense of common purpose, our sense of higher purpose," Obama gloomily intoned. —  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
  • "La Bibournoise" and "Les Culottes de V'lour," both based on old songs of love and betrayal, have a whimsy that even outstrips what other miners of the treacherous past, like, say The Band, might have done with them. —  Music Emissions Alternative Music Reviews
  • There was this lour popping noise, and then a little flash, and one of the gears ... all I heard was that it got the kid's arm and [he or she, as appropriate] was sucked in to the mechanism. —  Maureen's Blog
  • Each gan vndight Their garments wet, and weary armour free, 8 To dry them selues by Vulcanes flaming light And eke their lately bruzed parts to bring in plight 1 They been brought into a comely bower been > [were] bower > room 2 And served of all things that might needful be of > with 3 Yet secretly their host did on them lour, 4 And welcomed more for fear than charity; 5 But they dissembled what they did not see, 6 And welcomed themselves. —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • How: How does lour business look during the event? —  Enterprise Strategies
 

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