Not complaining, but a direful little effort at content, showing the more piteously, because involuntarily, what a mistake I had made.
Nan attempted all sorts of things, undaunted by direful failures, and clamored fiercely to be allowed to do every thing that the boys did.
While these their angels, in their attendance on man, are stationed near to confirmed and determined adulterers, they are made sensible of the direful stenches mentioned above, n.
It was to save her less even from Losely than from such direful women as Losely made his confidants and associates that Waife had taken Sophy to himself.
Stan's brave companion was alluding to a long line of dusky birds that were following the dismal objects floating in direful procession down the river, and coming up from all directions to join their friends.
At this direful announcement Phronsie gave one cry, then she sat right down on the floor and lifted up her voice, "I want Polly!
Every one of the Peppers who heard those direfulwords tumbled back in dismay and gazed at her in amazement.
Though the hosts were e'er so great, That came out of Cruachan wild, More than third and less than half, Slew I in my direful sport!
I left him, with a strong foreboding that he would work me some direful mischief.
We measured our grief by each gallant deed; We measured our loss by our direful need; Our dead dreams rose from the vanquished past, And across the future their shadows cast.
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come Discomfort swells.
More direful hap betide that hated wretch That makes us wretched by the death of thee Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads, Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!
In the face of the fiercest opposition he never faltered in his purpose of raising troops, and the most direful threats only nerved him to greater exertion.
The brave Araucanians sustained the first discharges of musquetry from the Spaniards with wonderful resolution, and even made a rapid evolution under its direful effects, by which they assailed at once the front and flank of the Spanish army.
Blind with agony, and as in a direful dream, Rosalie made her way to the bed.
Again and again Jo had come round to the rest-house since one direful day, but had not, found his way therein.
Probably he was a direful serpent, who nourished her now to devour her by and by.
The direful prodigies that followed this event made Ceyx feel that the gods were hostile to him.
Secondly, overwhelmed as I am with a sense of my direful infirmity, I have never attempted to disguise or conceal the cause.
After my death, I earnestly entreat, that a full and unqualified narration of my wretchedness, and of its guilty cause, may be made public, that at least some little good may be effected by the direful example.
We met as direful foes, but we parted with mutual regard and veneration.
The duke and the stranger had met each other as deadly foes in the direful day of civil war; and in the dreadful onset of personal combat, performing each prodigies of valour, they encountered as foes, yet they parted as friends!
This direful malevolence on the part of public opinion, springing from a few acts of imprudence and fomented by a long series of calumnies, was about to burst forth on the occasion of a scandalous and grievous occurrence.
We cannot hide from you, Sir, thedireful consequences of expressions so opposed to the constant principles of our national code.
When I repeated the direful threat to my mother, she laughed and bade me give myself no uneasiness on the subject, as nothing was more unlikely than that Colonel Hopkins would ever go to the White House.
Anne Carus rendered it with modest confidence, spelling and defining in a subdued tone befitting the direful monosyllable.
The despotism of that direful period, full of portents and pain, may have taught me fortitude.
In the termination of the career of this unhappy young man, the direful effects of dissipation are clearly evidenced.
I rushed to the tent of General McClellan, and relating the news to him, besought his aid in this direful extremity.
He was an enthusiast and fanatic, a dangerous man in any crisis, and particularly so in the one now impending, which threatened a civil war and all its direful consequences.
It was an abyss deep and awful; and from this dark and direful abyss issued forth the horrible reptiles of disappointment, sorrow, and remorse, which thrust their cruel fangs into the quivering heart of the lonely exile at St. Helena.
To him the grave was but the awful portal to the direful abyss of annihilation.
In respect to the war spirit, which is one of the most direful traits of our fallen race, there is but little difference between the civilized and uncivilized man.
The frowning fort, with its threatening armament, proclaimed that sin had entered the world with its war and blood and misery, making man the direful foe of his brother man.
Though he may disguise them by artful words and a gracious bearing, still they are there, and their effect is as direful as though their expression was open and plain to all.
Reverse the picture, and think of the direful evils of a ruined character.
Under the direful influence of its antagonistic principle man has trampled upon the rights of fellow-man, and waded through rivers of human blood, to satisfy his thirst for vengeance.
As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.
Queen Margaret speaks of "The flattering index of a direful pageant" --the pageants displayed on public occasions being generally preceded by a brief account of the order in which the characters were to walk.
