woful

Example Sentences

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Oh, woful welcome! woful day, That never brings a bright to-morrow!

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

O woful Mars! alas! what mayst thou seyn, That in the paleys of thy disturbaunce Art left behinde, in peril to be sleyn? . . . . . . . . . . .

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.

And the angel then unbound him, and he with woful lamentation went away, and nowhere afterwards appeared.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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