As I upon a woeful widow'd bed Shall pray for you, if not to turn your eyes Upon your wretched wife and hopeful son, Yet that in time you 'll fix them upon heaven!
I am as woeful as Virginius was, And have a thousand times more cause than he To do this outrage; and it now is done.
Even when the state of man seems most secure And tempted least to deviate from the line Of simple duty, woeful forfeiture C.
By Angels guarded, deviate from the line Of innocence, and woeful forfeiture Incur by wilful breach of law divine.
This Ranald promised to do, and rode away on his woeful journey; and before he reached home that night, the news had spread far and wide, from house to house, like a black cloud over a sunny sky.
Straight Rory's answer was a sigh so woeful and so deep that Yankee looked over at him and remarked in an undertone to Ranald, "He ain't so cheerful as he might be.
So Fra Diavolo became a mighty leader, and woeful are the tales which travellers told of him.
It could tellwoeful stories, but has not been examined with the care that its past history demands.
This was sorrowful enough for them; but we may regard their woeful faces cheerfully.
There like a little Adam fed From Learning's woeful tree!
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me!
In reading his poems one is apt to exclaim with our author, "What woeful stuff this madrigal would be," &c.
Walk through the woeful streets (whoever dare Still venture on the sad infected air) So many marked houses you shall meet As if the city were one Red-Cross Street.
Our captain [John Davis] with extreme anguish of his soul was in such woeful case that he desired only a speedy end, and though he were scarce able to speak for sorrow, yet he persuaded them to patience.
He thus to me in few: "This shalt thou know, soon as our steps arrive Beside the woeful tide of Acheron.
That heard, the spirit all did wrench his feet, And sighing next in woeful accent spake: "What then of me requirest?
They inspired her with a certain woeful anger and also with a degree of pride.
His arms were bound to his sides, while his long-tailed coat, now in a woeful and tattered condition, hung about his legs.
She poured forth the whole of her woeful and heart-breaking story into this stranger's ear; the first, in fact, to hear it.
The next entry in Isoult's diary ran thus:-- "By Austin Bernher woeful news is come.
Ay, I know it is a woeful saying, yet again I say it: King Edward is worn out at fourteen.
It may be that his last thought in this world, just ere the axe slid down, was of that woeful wrong he never could right more.
But on the 14th of November came a more woeful sight.
Sithence my last writing have I made a most woeful discovery, the which I would almost I had not done.
A right woeful frenzy followed, wherein (she being ignorant of what she did) they caused her to swallow His Majesty.
I will give him three months to die in," was Dr Thorpe's short andwoeful answer.
But woeful was the disappointment when the tongue was tasted!
And so, miserably, within the compass of a few brief days, died the two lovers by woeful deaths, as I have told you, and without having known any joyance of their love.
She loved them; they and the fourfooted beasts were the sole things that did not flee from her; and the woeful and mad slaughter of them by the peasants was to her a grief passionate in its despair.
She looked at them with the passionate woeful eyes of a dog mad with thirst, which can see water and yet cannot reach it.
So woeful was I in my heart When I saw Young Helmer fall.
Lie thou there, Young Angelfyr And bleed till thou art dead; So woeful was I in my heart When I saw how Helmer bled.
Let him know how hard it is for him to kick against the pricks, and how woeful to strive against his Maker.
Thus silly swain, with love and fancy bitten, I trace the plains[3] of pain in woeful weed.
But a word to the natives of Mansoul: You, the elders and chief of Mansoul, to me it is strange to see you so jocund and merry, when the town of Mansoul is in such woeful case.
Whereupon my dear love conceived that it must be his woeful duty to tell his friend that the lady of his choice had no free heart to give him.
