- a variation of woeful.
woful
Example Sentences
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Love potions were asked for, and charms to bring back lost love, with special earnestness, and the woful looks assumed when I told the applicants that I could do nothing for them were sadly suggestive.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
A woful weakness, which took the form of a woful strength, over-mastered her as the hours grew older.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
I was in my tent early, but there was little rest, for crowds of people with bad eyes and woful maladies besieged it until the evening.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
That is, as far as I remember, one of the most finished pieces of sunset he has given; and it has a woful moral; yet one which, with Scott, is inseparable from the scene.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
Above, the sky was soft as a clouded turquoise, but underfoot, and on tree and shrub, the lovely melancholy of waning autumn met the bitter melancholy of a far more woful decay.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
