woful
Example Sentences
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Some call it The Woful Knight, but many there are who name it The Four Sorrows.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
I once saw a picture of 'The Knight of the Woful Countenance'—the K. of the W. C. looked exactly as you look now!
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
Woful profusion! at how dear a rate Are we made up! all hope of thrift and state Lost for a verse.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
"By my faith," saith she, "this pleaseth me well; now let us call it The Woful Knight."
From Tales from the Old French by Various
The waste known as Woful Moor, and the rock on the coast named Bodrigan's Leap, both have a tale to tell in relation with the ruin of this ancient family.
From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)
