How To Use Direful In A Sentence
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The war wages on and the winter is hard, but in these most direful moments I draw warmth from the fond memories I hold of you.
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Rational Review
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The pupil's words may be right, but the conceptions corresponding to them are often direfully wrong.
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The surveyor's theodolite is one of the more direful symbols of the twentieth century.
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When she entered he looked up, frowning direfully.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Indeed, he is reaching down to that best-known of lieder Schubert published as his Opus 1, and reanimating, in his kaleidoscopic way, the direful night-time gallop of a father and son pursued by a pure demonic force.
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seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully
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Egbert had put him to bed nicely oiled just a little while before George brought the direful news from the tool shed.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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But nevertheless, traveller as he was, he passed the night direfully sick in his carriage, where his courier tended him with brandy-and-water and every luxury.
Vanity Fair
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Either the forcefulness and plausibility of his arguments or the direfulness of their need led the directors to make the venture.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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It's a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga's skirt-steak dress.
Madame Bovary, Grant Wood And More: Book Review Roundup
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Immigration lawyers vary in standard from the very brilliant, to the direfully inadequate, and for those immigration candidates whose English is less than adequate, informing oneself becomes practically impossible.
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Mark would not, and Prue could not, go to see the traveller off; the former being too angry to lend his countenance to what he termed a barbarous banishment, the latter, being half blind with crying, stayed to nurse Jessie, whose soft heart was nearly broken at what seemed to her the most direful affliction under heaven.
Moods
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While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination.
Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
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If it may lead any portion of the public to learn Better to distinguish than hitherto Between those who have plunged us into such a war and so long kept us in it and those who would have prevented our ever rushing into that direful whirlpool I have my chief object.
Letter 59
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This is a sacred "temenos," an inviolate grove, set apart to some god; and within the fences of the compound no mortal dare set foot under pain of direful sacrilege and pollution.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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And the city began to take fire, and to burn very direfully; and it burned all that night and all the next day, till vesper-time.
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Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him direfully.
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While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination.
Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers
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Go follow the blood-stained track of this great Moloch, crested with fiery plume and direful hate, into the courtrooms, the jails, penitentiaries, and gallowses.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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The Road could be classified as science-fiction for the near-future setting and prophetic look of a world turned to ash, and it could be classified as horror for the suspense and direful moments the characters must endure -- two genres I'm sure McCarthy would prefer to keep at a distance from his work.
Rabid Reads: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Glanced over her shoulder, struggled to frown direfully.
The Ideal Bride
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He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air…
The Haunted
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a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
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Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors.
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The Hammal, direfully wrath, threatened to shoot him upon the spot, and it was not without difficulty that I calmed the storm.
First footsteps in East Africa
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This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject.
Chapter 9
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Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms.
The Ideal Bride
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The resultant blur is an emblem of the paranoid experience, a concurrence of simultaneous direful events.
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Let us hope the direful upheaving, which is now felt throughout the Union, is the earthquake that will bury it forever.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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Gerhardt was still in a direfully angry and outraged mood.
Jennie Gerhardt
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Opponents of this sea change were aghast and direfully warned that if this were to occur, the sky would fall and civilization as we know it would come to an end.
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I do not have Hebrew, but my understanding is that the OT is more direfully condemnatory.
Any sympathy for the gay evangelicals?
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The beginning was not easy, it was even "direful," and "methought" I should die of despair; but now things are going, I am all right, come what may!
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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Noted Dr. F. B. Kane, of San Francisco: “Very many times my attention has been drawn professionally to the injury caused by the long hours of standing required of the saleswomen in this city, the one position most calculated to cause the manifold diseases peculiar to their sex, and direfully does Nature punish the disobedience of her laws.”
Origins
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The curing and healing men came to attend and watch and mark them that night; for naught else could they do, because of the direfulness of their cuts and their stabs, their gashes and their numerous wounds, but apply to them philtres and spells and charms, to staunch their blood and their bleeding and their deadly pains.
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
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And if it were ever consolatory to know this, or the like of this, it was consolatory then, when the impotence of his will, the instability of his hopes, the feebleness of wealth, had been so direfully impressed upon him.
Dombey and Son
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From classical times, too, we have the phrase ‘deus ex machina’ to describe those dramas in which a hideously direful circumstance is abruptly set to rights through the intercession of some benevolent god or other.