woful

Example Sentences

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Should we not justly accuse them of a woful lack of taste?

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

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

"They will not hang me?" she whispered, and looked up into his face with all the terrors of the night still in her woful eyes.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

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

In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: “Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!”

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.