woful

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I was in my tent early, but there was little rest, for crowds of people with bad eyes and woful maladies besieged it until the evening.

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)

Then up rose Eckart, like a thing That starts from out the dim moonlight; His furrowed cheek betrays the sting Of many a woful day and night.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

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

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)

And the angel then unbound him, and he with woful lamentation went away, and nowhere afterwards appeared.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham