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His rendition of a passage from one of Mr. Spurgeon's sermons became so impressive under her drilling that the aroma of his lost youth stole back to the nostrils of the old man while he listened There is a place," the boy would declaim loweringly, and with fitting gesture, with hypnotic eye fastened on the cowering Bernal, "where the only music is the symphony of damned souls.

—The Seeker

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In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

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His rendition of a passage from one of Mr. Spurgeon's sermons became so impressive under her drilling that the aroma of his lost youth stole back to the nostrils of the old man while he listened There is a place," the boy would declaim loweringly, and with fitting gesture, with hypnotic eye fastened on the cowering Bernal, "where the only music is the symphony of damned souls. — The Seeker
Then aloud, "Whar's mam?" he demanded, flinging himself into a chair and looking loweringly about. — His "Day In Court" 1895
Sol shut the door, drew up an inverted tub, seated himself upon it, and looked about, loweringly. — The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
He looked loweringly at me for a moment from under his shaggy eyebrows. — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
I was the next upon whom the eye of the police-sergeant loweringly fell. — Faces and Places