Her dress was wofully neglected, her hair loose, that is, it escaped from her cap, her white bosom was bare, and her feet without shoe or stocking.
By one of those wicked dispensations tripping up our early march, the secretary of the navy was selected in Gideon Welles, an estimable gentleman in person, but wofully unsuited to the berth, if from age alone.
How wofully we have been, and are, misled by all upon whom we have relied as teachers.
Moreover, my gorgeous fantasies were wofully disturbed by the rattling of the spoon in a tumbler of whiskey punch, which Mr. Thomas Waite was mingling for a customer.
Were she, for a single moment, to deem thee dead, or lost, or lastingly divided from her, thou wouldst be wofully conscious of a change in thy true wife forever after.
Lord Granby is made lord lieutenant of Derbyshire; but the vigour of this affront was wofully weakened by excuses to the Duke of Devonshire, and by its being known that the measure was determined two months ago.
I am wofully in want of reading, and sick to death of all our political stuff; which, as the Parliament is happily at the distance of three months, I would fain forget till I cannot help hearing of it.
Something more disgraceful than all these, and wofully mortifying for a young creature, who is at the same time in love with Lady Mary Coke, and following the Duchess of Grafton and Loo all over the kingdom.
I long to see you and my Lady Hertford, and am wofullysick of the follies and distractions of this country, to which I see no end, come what changes will!
I would not be the man that advised provoking him; and one man(596) has put himself wofully in his power!
However, the arcana imperia have been wofully laid open.
To most of us the Professor's speech had been pessimism compact; to me it was inspiring, though wofully lacking in details.
Passing it, I should march on to my conquests, unhappy, wofully unhappy, but going faster because alone.
The boy looked at him wofully and resentfully, but said nothing, nor can I imagine why the thing was done.
It was a showery morning, and looked wofully like a rainy day; but nothing better is to be expected in England; and, after all, there is seldom such a day that you cannot glide about pretty securely between the drops of rain.
I have suffered wofully from low spirits for some time past; and this has not often been the case since I grew to be a man, even in the least auspicious periods of my life.
In the chapter-house we saw a marble statue of Newton, wofully maltreated by damps and weather; and though it had no sort of business there, it fitted into the ruins picturesquely enough.
The old saints who lived and died in prayer, ignoring human relations, seem to us to-day to have beenwofully deluded.
Rhona becamewofully tired--drooped where she sat--a feeling of exhaustion dragging her down.
I fear that is a duty fallen wofully into disuse in many Christian households.
Little knowledge of the ordering of so-called Christian households is needed to be sure that domestic religion is wofullyneglected to-day.
Saints"--a word that has been wofully misapplied both by the Church and the world.
The popular Christianity of the day is strong in philanthropic service, and some phases of it are full of "evangelistic" activity, but it is wofully lacking in intelligent grasp of the great principles involved and revealed in the gospel.
You do look wofully sick though; too bad to lose a second uncle at the same early age.
Whatever doubts and fears I had of the success of the expedition, were all wofully confirmed, when I saw how things were about that unfortunate nobleman.
The struggle within her was great, and it grew every minute stronger and stronger; and after walking very wofully divers times across the floor, she went and closed the shutters of her window, and sitting down gave full vent to her grief.
We did not know the nature or temper of our mounts; and besides, neither of us cared to place much reliance on our stirrup leathers, they looked frayed and wofully fragile.
Then Stewart, who had grown wofully cadaverous of late, stopped and addressed his compatriot.
A crew of three, when there are watches to set, divides wofully ill.
This gentleman came forward to the coach, lamenting wofully that Fraeulein Theresa was already gone.
And doing what I now looked upon as folly, noxious folly, out of no taste of my own, but merely to gratify him, it all grew wofully irksome to me.
This man is in the secret: he willwofully lament that Fraeulein Theresa should just have left him again; he will seem to think she may still be overtaken.
Frau Melina was a young woman not without culture, butwofully defective in soul and spirit.
Would that others did not come so wofully short, compared with him!
I think a sudden revelation has wofully unbalanced many a fine mind.
That language must be wofully poverty-stricken, which has no signs to represent the most common and familiar objects and conditions.
That language must be wofully poverty stricken, which has no signs to represent the most common and familiar objects and conditions.
So, in the wofully limited numbers of the Exiles who returned from the old captivity he sees an embodied prophecy of the fewness of the sons of Israel who shall return from the exile of incredulity to their true Messiah.
She had been very pretty, but now her face was white and wofully emaciated--the dread impress of consumption was upon it.
How wofully changed was everything in the once cheerful old Hall!
The princesse de Guemenee and the duchesse de Grammont werewofully enraged.
My enemies were wofully chagrined; but what perfected their annihilation was the palpable lie which my appearance gave to their false assertions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wofully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
