woful

Example Sentences

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Sir Dietrich, hear my tale; Surely heard I never such wild and woful wail, As in my ears is ringing, through all the life I've past.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

“These are woful tidings truly, my son,” returned Garnet.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

As human nature is forgetful, I imagined that my former journey, in my childhood, had not been so sad and woful as the present; I wished to be as I was then.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

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)

You have managed so ill as to drive the marquis from his own breakfast-table with your ridiculous woful airs.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis