He taking to hart the cruell entertainment that was prepared for me, was mooved with compassion of my woefull misery that I was like to fall into.
But when I sawe her in that woefull case, 65 With teares of bloud I wet mine aged face: For my Lavinia I lamented more Then for my two and twenty sonnes before.
Alas death, why dost thou not throwe against my hearte thy most pearcing dart, that I may goe waite vpon the shadowes of my thryce happy Parents, who knowing this my gryefe, wyll not be voide of passion to helpe me wayle my woefull state.
Then forth I went his woefull corse to find, And many yeares throughout the world I straid, A virgin widow, whose deepe wounded mind 215 With love long time did languish as the striken hind.
Then forth I went his woefull corse to find, And many yeares throughout the world I straid, 8 A virgin widow, whose deepe wounded mind With loue, long time did languish as the striken hind.
Then gan /he waile & weepe, to /ee that woefull /towre.
Ther nedes no proofe, but by th’ Assirian kinge, On whome that Monster woefull wrack did bring.
As to those saved, 'the residue of the woefull people remaining yet aliue, being overburdened with extream sorrow, runs up and down the fieldes like distraught or franticke men.
You Denshire Dames and courteous Cornwall Knights That here are come to visitwoefull wights, Regard my griefe, and marke my wofull end, And to your children be a better friend.
But when I sawe her in that woefull case, 65 With teares of bloud I wet mine aged face: For my Lavinia I lamented more Then for my two-and-twenty sonnes before.
No, no, father, thy hard and cruell wronge With pacience as I may I will sustaine In woefull life which now shall not be longe.
I now leade my life All solitarie as doeth bird in cage, And fede my woefullyeres with waillfull grefe?
And though ye could not see, yet rede and rue their woefull destinie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woefull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
