woful

Example Sentences

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It seemed incredible that so short a time could have wrought so woful a change.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

A woful end to all their golden hopes and happiness.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

In many a woful heart's disaster He felt the pang!

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

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

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)