woful

Example Sentences

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Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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)

Shall I ever forget that woful face, white as the face of death, rigid with the calmness of despair?

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.

But in yours, Claire Twining, I maintain that it will turn out a dowry of bitter risk if not woful disaster.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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