woful

Example Sentences

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Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

I was in my tent early, but there was little rest, for crowds of people with bad eyes and woful maladies besieged it until the evening.

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)

The woful news spread at once, and many jumped overboard in their terror.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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