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1. farmhouses and their occupants were as dour as the
2. With that, she made her way out of Castle Dour
3. But it genuinely pleased her nonetheless to see her back in Castle Dour, looking no worse for the wear
4. Though just as heavy as the other farmer, this one was jovial, not dour
5. The more dour Legate of the Hjaalmarch camp, however, was not especially interested in the younger soldier’s indignation
6. The friendly Imperial innkeeper Corpulus was willing enough to tell the Nord where to find the Legion representatives in the capital and after a small meal, he began to make his wary way to Castle Dour
7. ” His already dour expression darkened even more after swallowing a swig of ale
8. While always present, the tension in Castle Dour had been especially thick recently
9. This man stood with his arms crossed and his expression weary and dour, yet vaguely hopeful
10. Castle Dour was still waiting
11. Brynjolf paid the figure little mind, only noting it in passing as he continued on his trek to Castle Dour
12. How was it this damned man had such an effect on her? Dropping the broken plates into the bin, she walked back out into the café, forcing a smile as she tried to ignore Frank’s dour look
13. The other four, however, had been called to Warsaw for a “political” purpose, as Karol described it, with a dour expression on his face
14. He had taken on the dour aspect of the Maya and was just as taciturn
15. The dour guard and the grey
16. Obama, dour, deadpan, and soulless, with an arrogant tilt of the head, a great orator? Is stroking with soothing words those whose wonderful country he intends to drag down into sociofascist poverty quite the same thing? Is a wigwagging mist of rhetoric, soaring from alternate TelePrompTers, if seemingly enticing upon emission, but vaporizing when pursued for substance, great oratory? There must be another word for it
17. and she had become dour and sullen as a result
18. “Even if it was one that most of us hated!” Judah finished the thought on a more dour note
19. I shrugged with a dour frown
20. The President"s expression went from dour to optimistic, as with his famous smile he rose from his chair and went to where Warren was standing
21. There were ten dour Scots assisted by four Aussies, two New Zealanders, three Canadians, and one South African
22. sensing his mood was dour
23. “Or the sheriff’s office,” Breckenridge added with a dour look at
24. Tony, who became a sports commentator on the BBC, is rather dour and solemn as usual, but on Jason’s introduction to him he is warm and friendly, encouraging him to become a county cricketer
25. At the final weather conference scheduled for 04 00 on June 4th; Group Captain Stagg, whom Eisenhower described as a "dour but canny Scot”, made the weather predictions, as he had been doing every day for a month
26. It was a dour group of men—each of them weighing their part in this melee and trying to guess the outcome
27. The screen then showed him returning home from his trip, the face showed his exhausted dour expression, the child his idealism before the realism of the urn clouded him into an aging elder sitting at a table staring at empty chairs imagining a companion and then laughing with a limping contempt, as he in the chair and himself on the screen half-heartedly spit a glass biting realism –
28. ’s dour Calvinist heritage
29. Here and there we stopped to stare at statues of whimsical animals and dour deities
30. Here and there we stopped to stare at statues of whimsical animals and dour frowning dieties
31. Clad in their gold-colored robes, they did nothing save watch everyone they passed with dour looks
32. ” Several of the meeting participants smiled broadly but a few wore dour expressions
33. � The communication component of this training class served as a central part of the often dour discussion of customer service
34. The woman in reception at the hospital was a dour, frump of a woman in her mid-forties
35. The dour woman on reception at the hospital sighed as Smith and Whitton approached her
36. To judge by the dour expressions on their faces (and by the simple, no-nonsense wares hanging in the kiosks) it was nothing pertaining to pleasure or leisure
37. Her nation’s mood matches her dour performance
38. The dour recluse still there (he has his cake) and the douce youngling, minion of
39. Her candle revealed the novice mistress, Sister Simone – a dour middle-aged woman, normally a conscientious nun, not one to malinger
40. Ulbrickson remained steadfastly and resolutely dour
41. But, Dour Dane or not, Ulbrickson also felt the need to say something commensurate with the occasion
42. By the time it was over, they were all fighting back tears, even Al Ulbrickson, the Dour Dane himself
43. He held my friend's card in his hand, and he looked up with no very pleased expression upon his dour features
44. One such Friday, he saw a cluster of students with Very Serious Expressions sitting on one of the quadrangles, reproducing in their outsized drawing pads a bronze statue of some dour old Puritan
45. She chose me, didn’t she? All the cute boys she could have had, she chose this puss, this dour personality
46. He meant it for a joke, but it was a dour one
47. Crumley watched with a dour eye and said, "Let me guess
48. It was a dour and gloomy place dedicated to good coffee and sad, soggy food