woful

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Such a man thou seest Woful, unworthy, holding in his heart Always that sin.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

Woful to relate, she was received by "a smart, dapper, English-innkeeper-looking landlord," and conducted to apartments "which were a box of boudoirs, as compact as a Chinese toy."

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

Dame, make the new lay, but call it The Woful Knight.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

In his Analecta Mr. Wodrow noted down all the news that reached him, scandals about ‘The Pretender,’ Court Gossip, Heresies of Ministers, Remarkable Providences, Woful Apparitions, and ‘Strange Steps of Providence’. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

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)