Example Sentences

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

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

It seemed incredible that so short a time could have wrought so woful a change.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

A woful weakness, which took the form of a woful strength, over-mastered her as the hours grew older.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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

Their appearance was so woful that it became a by-word.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee