woful
Example Sentences
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She stood before him, little more than a girl still, woful, wistful, with terror now in her white face and shadowy eyes, and he remembered their bygone days together.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John
Oh, woful welcome! woful day, That never brings a bright to-morrow!
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Her white face, which grew more deathly white each day, and her woful eyes, which grew ever more despairing in their shadowy rings, were sure indexes of what she was passing through.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John
The woful news spread at once, and many jumped overboard in their terror.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
