But they are woefully complacent and self-satisfied.
Yes, what a woefully bewildering thing death swooping down into that quiet household, with all its tranquil security, must have been!
He looked woefully threadbare and shabby--a genteel sort of shabbiness too--shabbiness in black.
Poor Meneghino reached London barefooted, his faithful canvas bag hanging disconsolately over his shoulder--and all with woefully vacant stomachs.
Their clothes, or what remained of them, were woefully tattered--and they were few and rudimentary indeed, for most of what had been spared by the hazards of travel were drying down below.
Others have been heard most woefullyto lament, at the very instant when Atropos was about to cut the thread of their life, that Pantagruel held them by the gorge.
Many of the unfortunates who had so abused their hard earnings, found themselves woefully deficient the next morning, the more sober or wide awake ones having picked their pockets during their insensibility.
I myself had woefully experienced this, having been frequently for days without food, through my irregularities and my unwillingness to acquaint my friends that I was so near them.
The lover who cannot wound has indeed lost anchorage; he is woefully adrift: he stabs air, which is to stab himself.
The ceremony was woefully long, and the charge to the young man awfully impossible to obey, at least if he were a man, like unto other men.
But in taste and learning they are woefully deficient; and it is this which renders them incapable of graduating a scale by which to measure themselves.
Self love, and that kind of pride which is so nearly allied to conceit that it often assumes the form of obstinacy, stand woefully in the way of recantation; and moreover in the present instance to recant is equivalent to resign.
They leave us woefully in the dark as to the means which are to be adopted for remedying the evil; and they obstinately refuse to predict what kind of state is to follow upon this of transition.
She felt woefully responsible for having brought the two together.
Sometimes too he was Philip to her and this also was bitterly hard for Larry missed his uncle's support woefully in this dark hour.
He waswoefully homesick, wanted the home people, especially Uncle Phil desperately.
It seemed to me that none of them at all understood the situation, and it was so wonderfully clear, in my own mind, so enormous and astounding in its menace, that I was woefully puzzled to see how they could have missed it.
Barrow's attitude was that of a little boy who had broken some plaything in a fit of anger and was now woefully trying to put the pieces together again.
Hazel, nowwoefully saddle sore, would fain have rested longer, and, in default of resting, tried to walk and lead Silk.
She had become by the close of October pale, fragile-looking, and woefully depressed.
Their hearts had been miraculously lightened, and it was not until the burden had rolled away that they knew how woefully heavy it had been.
If he has to rely on his own devices, he is woefully deficient.
For schoolmasters who, of all people, ought to know most of hygiene and physiology, are, for the most part, woefullyignorant of them.
The entire expedition was woefully deficient in heavy guns.
Ever since that so pleasant meeting of ours in Piccadilly toward the end of 1909--nearly four long years ago--have I been haunted with the dreadful sense of a debt to your benevolence that has remained woefully undischarged.
Juries of the right sort must be told not to exaggerate their functions, or Lord Moira (who was woefully independent) might stir up a new pother at St. Stephen's.
All this was woefully illegal; but what did that matter?
It is woefully apparent," he remarked to Elinor, "just what is eating our friend, Timothy.
Arethusa was a woefully transparent young person; she had never learned there are times when it might seem best to dissemble a little.
Melissa looked woefully at the surprised girls and started off to follow her father, who went clumping down the path in his hip boots.
Woefully there came to her the realization that it contained no one but Olga.
It was a glooming kind of a night, and the cabin looked woefully bleak and solitary.
She looked at me woefully sad, and I had a queer, heartrending prevision I would never see her more.
For the rest, her cheeks were woefully pinched and her lips drooped wistfully.
Still, although the men of ancient time were learning fast about the land and sea, they were woefully ignorant.
In addition, the party of explorers found their animals woefully bitten by the tsetse fly, rhinoceroses and elephants were too plentiful to be interesting, and the great white ant made itself tiresome.
That was her chief anxiety; for the unexpected, the outside sources of income were growing fewer, and in a year's time the little hoard would be woefully small.
It was a very old and woefully begrimed bedgown, bearing marks of Mr. Oxleek’s dirty paws, and of his tobacco dust, and of physic clumsily administered and spilt.
Although I am woefully lacking in specific information regarding these old-time shocks, I have a very distinct impression that they meant more than merely a convenient pile of sheaves set up to dry.
In the past he has beenwoefully lacking in education.
The habits of ancient days gave a place to the father and mother which modern family lifewoefully lacks, and suffers in many ways for want of.
