woful

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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

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

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

That is, as far as I remember, one of the most finished pieces of sunset he has given; and it has a woful moral; yet one which, with Scott, is inseparable from the scene.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

Down sunk woful Ludegast grovelling on the green.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: “Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!”

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.