How To Use Grievously In A Sentence

  • Grievously sinful indeed it was and is to swear by heaven, which is the abode of God; or by earth, which is His creation and by Him called His footstool; or by Jerusalem, which was regarded by those who swore as the city of the great King; or by one's own head, which is part of the body God has created. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • A few years later, it became clear that these pseudo-experts were grievously mistaken.
  • You should not suffer her to missay me so grievously. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • The town suffered grievously during the barbarian invasions and it did not recover until the Middle Ages, when it took its present form, that of a fortified medieval settlement round a strong castle.
  • My country has suffered grievously from the dropping in 1919 of this team spirit because of differences in experiences. Watch On The Rhine
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  • “Jim” had parted with his brusquerie when we parted from the students, and was gentle and considerate beyond anything, though I knew that he must be grievously disappointed, both in my courage and strength. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • The country has been grievously wronged and it must be supported wholeheartedly and without reserve.
  • On the other hand, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, and Italian prisoners suffered grievously from the lack of food supplements. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • To-day he was really "queer," was conscious for the first time of the existence of a world whose adjacence to the real world was, in after days, to trouble him so often and to complicate life for him so grievously. Jeremy
  • Illinois: The race between Rep. Mark Kirk (R) and state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (D) reminds us of that great scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where the black knight is grievously wounded time and again but comes back for more. The Fix's "Big Senate Six"
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for ‘divine and human lore,’ when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
  • More recently, in a message to the Irish hierarchy this year, the pontiff said: "It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Pope is on the case and has been, in fact
  • If you think flunkeyism in England died out under the sarcasm of "the Snob Papers," you have complimented us grievously, as Dogberrs Skipwith would say.
  • They grievously overstate the costs of bringing new drugs to market in hopes of wringing extortionate payments from desperate patients.
  • Bloomfield has been grievously afflicted of late with a lumbago which disables him from taking such exercise as his constitution requires. Letter 84
  • If you think that, you are grievously in error.
  • You also err, grievously, in relying solely on the courts to redress defamation in the online world. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Communications Decency Act of 1996 Meets the Closed Frontier
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • Persons in sorrow are too apt to be cross and peevish with those about them, and to lay it grievously to heart, if they but seem to neglect them; but Christ in his agony is as meek as ever, and carries it as patiently toward his followers as toward his Father, and is not apt to take things ill. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • And saying , Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy , grievously tormented.
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • Should you feel some politician or other grievously abuses / defames you under parliamentary privilege, do not expect an automatic right to defend yourself in the official written record of parliament.
  • Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles.
  • Lord Percy returned several days later to find his wife laid in state and his son grievously ill.
  • Carlo Ancelotti dashes to Italy to visit 'grievously' ill father To mark eight years of his restaurant, restaurateur Nikhil Chib and wife Natasha played host to a bunch of friends and of course, foodies. Daily News & Analysis
  • The film revolves around Kumaran who becomes mentally unsound after learning that his son, Appu, has been grievously injured in an accident.
  • Besides the scourge of small-pox, the colonists were afflicted grievously with other malignant distempers, -- fatal throat diseases, epidemic influenzas, putrid fevers, terrible fluxes; and as the art of sanitation was absolutely disregarded and almost unknown, as drainage there was none, and the notion of disinfection was in feeble infancy, we cannot wonder that the death-rates were high. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • They were, however, grievously misapplied to material whose richest rewards only emerge when the delivery is kept simple. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pham Thi Hoa's family suffered grievously from the American War. In These Times
  • Carlo Ancelotti dashes to Italy to visit 'grievously' ill father I'll take a Kop loss provided we win Premier League title, says Neville Daily News & Analysis
  • Perhaps I am grievously mistaken, and have fallen victim to unsound emotion or the first flush of fatherhood.
  • the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival
  • Training costs for city workers were grievously underestimated.
  • Nevertheless, she outraged not, though her eyes were frightening Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it. The Ontario Readers Third Book
  • pietism," of what is foolishly called "goody-goody," has long been abroad; a grievously exaggerated dread; a mere parody of rightful jealousy for sincerity in religion. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
  • Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
  • Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it. Lorna Doone
  • And he that will not obey to him that hath the cure over him when he enseigneth and teacheth him good that he is bound to do, he sinneth grievously and is inobedient, which is deadly sin. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
  • The affluent farmers, who owned farmhouses, grievously misused it.
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • It was in that desperate and curious limbo known as the "exit concourse," where baffled creatures wait to meet others arriving on trains and maledict the architect who so planned matters that the passengers arrive on two sides at once, so that one stands grievously in the middle slewing his eyes to one side and another in a kind of vertigo, attempting to con both exits. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
  • In 1988, Brown, a former Bob Dole staffer, had grievously wounded Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis with the infamous Willie Horton commercial, which (unfairly) portrayed Dukakis as the kind of softie liberal who would set murderers free so they could kill again. The Secret War
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • Carlo Ancelotti dashes to Italy to visit 'grievously' ill father I'll take a Kop loss provided we win Premier League title, says Neville To mark eight years of his restaurant, restaurateur Nikhil Chib and wife Natasha played host to a bunch of friends and of course, foodies. Daily News & Analysis
  • The lady was grievously offended, and changed her whole behaviour in regard to me.
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • But he refused the will and the heart, and every time, when he was unable at the beginning to leap sideways out of the inclined trough, he fell grievously from the inside of the loop, bruising and injuring himself. CHAPTER XXVI
  • In recent years Pete suffered grievously from stomach cancer, but his courage and commitment remained undaunted.
  • Mrs Forbes accused the council of "grievously" letting down local residents. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • It is by the orders of Bowani herself; for I have wronged her, and she is angry and has loudly proclaimed to me that thuggee is ended -- that her protection is for ever withdrawn from me and my fellows, because, O misery, we have grievously offended her. Tales of Destiny
  • The prospects of these people have been grievously damaged by the massive failure of their political leadership.
  • Once he arrived home, the prince fell grievously ill.
  • But as I had requested him, before we parted at Vienne, to send me notice of his decease in case it preceded mine, being then grievously sick, and remembering his promise, he encharged a certain learned soldier to bring me word the moment he died. Mediaeval Tales
  • He believed he had been grievously wronged by those around him.
  • The country has suffered grievously from an unprecedentedly severe drought.
  • I marketing manager jobs as distressfully god has obstructive my bowleg grievously to complemental my celesta to sussex i was too suppositional to see when i was at irrelevantly. Rational Review
  • God's gifts, and often make them occasions of sin; but this outcry of the beam against the mote, which is so grievously prevalent in the religious world, is very unseemly. Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain
  • 'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
  • A man could disinherit either of his children by declaring his intentions in his will, but only for grave reasons, such as grievously injuring his person or character or feelings, or attempting his life. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
  • Then the merchants grievously robbed the people, so that a bushel of corn or half a measure of wine was hardly sold for a triens. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • The Irish and Bristol Channels were closed or grievously obstructed.
  • Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
  • The British were grievously disappointed at the battle's outcome.
  • Sport has suffered grievously from the excesses of the few recently.

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