- a variation of woeful.
woful
Example Sentences
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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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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 Thomas Carlyle
The woful news spread at once, and many jumped overboard in their terror.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Above, the sky was soft as a clouded turquoise, but underfoot, and on tree and shrub, the lovely melancholy of waning autumn met the bitter melancholy of a far more woful decay.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
"They will not hang me?" she whispered, and looked up into his face with all the terrors of the night still in her woful eyes.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
