I wish to prepare you for the woful news, but I know it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page, to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings.
Fair are the meadows, Fairer still the woodlands, Robed in the pleasing garb of spring: Jesus shines fairer, Jesus is purer Who makes the woful heart to sing!
But a change came--a woful change--once the Danes began to arrive.
He sat him down in woful plight; and soon his hounds came up.
But the beloved opened the door, and saw the dead man hanging there in the court, unmoved of heart, and tearless for the strange, woful death; but on the dead man were all the garments of youth defiled.
All the gifts of the Muses, herdsman, have died with thee, the delightful kisses of maidens, the lips of boys; and woful round thy tomb the loves are weeping.
And when no adequate testimony was ever given by the church against such Erastian usurpations, but they are still crouched under and complied with, it may justly be constructed a tame subjection and woful consent to this supremacy.
And he hath passed in safety unto his woful home, And there ta'en horse to tell the camp what deeds are done in Rome.
God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall.
Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
A woful instance of this nature I shall have to advert to more particularly in the course of my narrative; and, if it prove a timely hint to the inexperienced, I shall be rewarded.
These subterraneous passages to the palaces of the great must have been designed for purposes dark as they are mysterious; and, could these dark and lonely cells but speak, I fear they would tell many a woful tale.
Shepherds, if you have any pity, come And see a woful spectacle.
Every song she warbled, every tune she played, recalled to his remembrance some scene of love and happiness elapsed; and overwhelmed his soul with the woful comparison of past and present fate.
Cranstoun, who was never anything at a debauch, was driven off the field, with a squeamish stomach and a woful countenance, shamefully early.
This, says the writer, is going to be preserved because it has been thought to bear some resemblance to the visage of the celebrated tobacconist whose pious bequest has eventually produced so woful a revolution!
For such a dream I had, of dire portent, That much I fear my body will be shent: 110 It bodes I shall have wars andwoful strife, Or in a loathsome dungeon end my life.
But in a tower, and never to be loosed, The woful captive kinsmen are enclosed.
Sir Edmondbury first, in woful wise, 20 Leads up the show, and milks their maudlin eyes.
Another maid in later Mays Won with her life that woful praise, And died.
That woful confession sounded strange in these surroundings, at this season of spring, when everything breathed only beauty and peace.
Be it ours to undo a woful past, To bid the bells of concord chime, To break the bonds of suffering crime, Slack now, that some would make more fast: Such teaching comes of time.
He was known to be a widower, and the wofulextravagancies into which Mary Madeline Mumbles cajoled her doting mother, were enough to make one shudder in relating.
A week passed by ere she was able to make her aunt fully acquainted with her woful tale.
But he proceeded in his parable, and said, 'O thou woful town of Mansoul!
The floods run trickling down their face, Their hearts do prick and ache, While they lament their woful case, Their loins totter and shake.
Weighing each sin and wickedness With so much equity, Proportioning of thy distress And woful misery.
But they whom God to hell doth turn Are in mostwoful plight.
Oh, if our turning unto him, that he might turn away from the fierceness of his anger, might prevent this woful day!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
