woful

Example Sentences

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A neglect to procure straw to soften our rocky couches, and a woful insufficiency of bed-clothing for a phenomenally cold August night, added to our manifold discomforts.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

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

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

With these woful complaints agree the recorded facts of his life.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

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