woful

Example Sentences

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Her white face, which grew more deathly white each day, and her woful eyes, which grew ever more despairing in their shadowy rings, were sure indexes of what she was passing through.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

She stood before him, little more than a girl still, woful, wistful, with terror now in her white face and shadowy eyes, and he remembered their bygone days together.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

A woful end to all their golden hopes and happiness.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

A neglect to procure straw to soften our rocky couches, and a woful insufficiency of bed-clothing for a phenomenally cold August night, added to our manifold discomforts.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold