woful

Example Sentences

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Oh, woful welcome! woful day, That never brings a bright to-morrow!

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

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

You have managed so ill as to drive the marquis from his own breakfast-table with your ridiculous woful airs.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The dear delightful abb� could not have--oh, no, that was absurd and ridiculous, and yet why should Gabrielle sit so stonily with that woful look of pain?

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The following verses, which set forth his woful situation, are placed at the foot of the Plate: 1.

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas